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Guy Gowan announces new Website

September 2009 sees the launch of Guy Gowan’s unique webazine. Guy is a world renowned Digital Retouching guru and has traveled the Globe teaching, training and working with thousands of Graphic Artists, Photographers, Advertising Agencies and Multi Media professionals.

Guy’s website launch will bring his unique experience and wealth of knowledge to the world wide design community at the touch of a button - which is a very exciting prospect for professionals and enthusiasts alike!

Website members can access a continually growing range of exclusive online Guy Gowan tutorials expanding on Guy’s unique experience of 25 years working at the cutting edge of design technology .

As a special offer to Adobe Newsletter subscribers Guy has agreed a 12 month membership of the website for the reduced price of €75 this offer is only valid until the 31/09/09 and only applies to Adobe Newsletter Subscribers. To avail of this limited time offer please click on the More Info button below.

Guy has developed the concept of his website over many years and is thrilled to see his idea of a unique, informative and independent resource for the creative community worldwide come to life in guygowan.com. The website will contain extensive video recordings on a wide range of applications including  the Adobe Creative Suite, new and innovative industry technology and of course Guy’s world renowned workflow methodology and non destructive retouching technique.

Website members will also be able to access a comprehensive range of Guy’s much loved tips and tricks all easily explained and outlined by the man himself. Guy intends to build a wide prospectus of full training courses on all the major applications in use by Design professionals today and will record and upload new video tutorials onto the website on a regular basis.

As software and hardware continues to evolve at an ever increasing pace. www.guygowan.com will be the prime platform for Guy to share his insight on the solutions and opportunities this technology offers the design community. Over time the website will encapsulate an expanding library of tutorial videos which can be watched repeatedly by members to achieve maximum impact on their use of creative technology.

Customer Profile

Rising Star: Gemma Correll

With her distinctive style, 25-year old freelance illustrator Gemma Correll is making huge waves in the design industry. "I use Photoshop A LOT," she says. "I love the freedom that it allows me – to play around with colour and texture."

'Quirky', 'distinctive' and 'unforgettable' – just three words that we'd use to describe the illustrative style of UK up-and-coming illustrator Gemma Correll. " Other people have described my style as 'Naive', 'Childlike' and 'The perfect combination of ugly and cute' she laughs. "The childlike style does come naturally to me, although I'm not sure what that says about me personally."

With a UK and international client base, including everything from well-known publications such as The Guardian, to more obscure periodicals such as Mexico's Baby Baby Baby magazine and Argentinian mag Chikismiqui, it seems as though art directors across the world are itching to see more of Correll. "I have also designed T-shirts for companies including Urban Outfitters, Hot Topic, Threadless and umbrellas for a company based in Hong Kong," she says of her style's versatility. "I also produce a lot of personal work and make my own products, such as printed cards and zines, painted ceramics and textile items.

My favourite Photoshop tools would have to be the oldies-but-goodies – the Magic Wand and Hue/Saturation tools," she continues, starting to reveal her working methods. "I also love the Linear Burn tool, which really helps to create a clean join when you're using line with colour fills." Correll also works in Illustrator when creating large-scale designs, and cites the ability to switch between Illustrator and Photoshop quickly – using Smart Objects – as a massive time-saver.

"I'm working on a couple of interesting editorial commissions at the moment as well as some fabric designs for a project that includes some of my favourite illustrators," she says. "I'm also preparing to take part in a group exhibition in Antwerp called Art Trek 6, which starts in August and the InkyGoodness 'Wonderland' exhibition at Birmingham's Custard Factory in September. I'm hoping to work on some more, varied projects within some new disciplines for me such as advertising and animation – and just generally make lots of new work for lots of lovely clients!"

See more of Gemma’s work