So this year Seth and Jennifer Matson of Matson Graphics decided to help cleanup the beaches by running 10 beach cleanups from Golden West St. down to the River Jetties in Huntington Beach, CA with the Surfrider Foundation.
The Surfrider Foundation has been great about letting us do this and encourage more people to step up [...]
2010 Huntington Beach Surfrider Beach Cleanups
April 2nd, 2010Trashed.Heal-the-Bay.org is super cool!
April 2nd, 2010So I got an email from a buddy saying ha ha I trashed your website. I clicked the link and this poppod up:
I encourage you to visit: http://trashed.healthebay.org/
and trash your buddies website today!
Seth Matson
Matson Graphics | 18920 Breezy Lane | Huntington Beach | CA | 92648
714 596 5019 (office) Best Option | 714 625 8210 [...]
Macintosh Operating Systems
January 21st, 2010Ever wondered what the name of your Macintosh OS X version was called? Good luck finding this info on your actual computer. If you point your mouse to the Apple in the top left bar of your computer and choose “about this mac” it will only tell you what version of OS X you are [...]
» read moreGraphic Design Glossary
January 15th, 2010Below are many useful definitions and explanations the graphic design industry terms.
A.
Adobe Illustrator
AI – Illustrator Document extension. See Illustrator.
Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is really a collection of software tools that have a variety of uses. It started off as a digital proofing tool, which enable graphic designers to repurpose any file format into a document that could be [...]
Lorem Ipsum and different Paragraph styles/layouts
January 15th, 2010Ever Wonder what the heck Lorem Ipsum is? Well, graphic designers use it quite often. Sometimes the graphic designer will be ahead of the game waiting for the client or a copywriter to get them the text for a design so the designer will use Lorem Ipsum as text placeholder. Below are some examples of [...]
» read morePhotoshop Stuff
January 15th, 2010Adobe Photoshop Tool Bar Definitions:
Marquee tool
It’s commonly used for selecting some part of opened image, that you want to cut-out, move resize or apply some filter on it.
There are few types of Marquee tools:
- Rectangular
- Elliptical
- Single Row
- Single Column
Rectangular and elliptical are pretty simple to use. Single-row and Single-column will select only 1 pixel [...]
Cool Graphic Design Stuff
January 15th, 2010 http://www.threadless.com/$10 tshirt sales very often – Cool art on tees…
http://www.orangecounty.aiga.org/index.php
(American Institute of Graphic Arts) – Meet up with other graphic designers in
your area to talk about graphic design etc…
http://www.creativepublic.com
CreativePublic is your graphic design & Web design business guide for resources such as: forms, contracts, pricing guides, manuals, policies and more! This is a great website if [...]
My first “Real” beach clean up with the Surfrider Foundation
November 29th, 2009My first “Real” beach clean up with the Surfrider Foundation at Huntington St. in Huntington Beach, CA. By Seth Matson
» read moreMatson Graphics of Huntington Beach posts its 1st Blog
November 23rd, 2009Well, this is my first real blog posting for Matson Graphics. I’m not much of a writer, but I thought it would be nice to post some of the graphic design knowledge I learn from time to time. But first, I thought I would share some information about me. Some of you may remember me [...]
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