Our most popular search term last week was "outstanding t shirt "psds" which is awesome by the way! Why you ask? Because Adobe Photoshop is finally on its way to becoming the go-to app for screen printers, or at least gain a little ground with print shops. We know damn well that Photoshop is expensive and Corel is cheap. We get that, but with new options like Adobe Creative Cloud you can get your shop up and running with the latest version of Photoshop, Illustrator and anything else you need for like $50 a month…. and that means you can use the super powers of Photoshop Layer Comps to power through t-shirt mock-ups using the 60 Second Shirt Shop templates. Check this out:

This is a quick Front, Back and Sleeve mock-up for bvmboo.com (bamboo iPhone 4 cases) in real time, unrehearsed to give you an idea of just how easy this can be. Using Layer Comps allows you to pick the shirt color in one click! 

Panda's are smart little creatures and often start with the low hanging fruit, or in their case, the low hanging bamboo leaves. Bamboo's such as Moso (Phyllostachys Pubescens) are ideal for harvesting because they have no leaf growth on the first 16 or so feet (that's about 5 meters for you Metric types) of the bamboo stock. We do all that we reasonably can to ensure that the bamboo used in the production of our bamboo products is the highest quality, and has the highest leaves to ensure that we are truly Panda Safe!

With the market full of drawing, jotting note-taking and diagraming apps Notify remains a top-dog full of functionality and usability in version 4. Notify imports and exports a plethora of formats and is easily interfaced with every could based syncing service out there including Dropbox™, Box.net™, Google Docs™, Evernote™, iDisk™ and FTP. Oh, and if the app wasn't cool enough already, you get a 10% discount on the BRVSH when you buy Notify. 

http://www.underscore.se/notify/
Notify on Twitter @undab

 A very big apology to all of our customers and friends for the various gateway site outages. Our ISP (Dreamhost) who has been very sold for the last 12 years is experiencing a very large scale server issue that has knocked out many of our sites. The good news is that it will be recovered (soon I hope) and that all our our products are still available at the Beta Ro Omega store (our mothership).

In honor of this server outage we are offering a %10 discount on all products at that store with the code dreamhost

Happy Friday everyone! 

With one click of the mouse you can change everything about the t-shirt template. The t-shirt color, shadow/highlight intensity, art opacity and mode, text location, test styles, backgrounds, graphics, atmospheres… every pixel in the 60secondshirt.com template is at your command. Photoshop's Layer Comps track the saved changes you've made and let you get back to those changes with one click of the mouse. It's one of many reason that the 60secondshirt.com templates are the best in the business. Here's how:

1. Open the 60ss file and go straight to the layer comps pallet. If it's not open, select it from the Window menu in Photoshop. 
   
   
2. Choose a Layer Comp as your staring point. We have plenty of templates for you to choose from.
   
   
3. Go back to your Layers Pallet and start modifying the details until the template is exactly what you want/need it to be. You might change background and add company logos, add some descriptive text, customize shirt colors or just change the default titles and settings to match your customers shop. Get your template customized until it's the perfect starting point for your shops mock-ups. 
   
   
4. Go back to the Layer Comps pallet and save the new Layer Comp. 

That's it! You've just turned the 60secondshirt.com template(s) into your shops own custom t-shirt mock-ups. Next you can make a custom template to match your online webs shop. With 60secondshirt.com you don't' even have to print the shirts to sell them. Just mock them up, wait for an order and them print them on-demand or in small batches. Time is money in the garment embellishment business and adding 60secondshirt.com to your workflow saves both time and money while adding value to your products. 

www.60secondshirt.com

A good article about the choice to use or not use a case on your phone. We've always been divived as a company on using cases but as the destroyer of all things I am the perfect example for having a case on your phone. A little bulk does not justify having to buy a new iPhone at full cost because you dropped yours and shattered the glass. I prefer the bamboo cases and we've offers bamboo cases in the store before. The problem with bamboo is that it isn't shatter proof or crack proof. It's like your cutting board at home, if you live in a dry climate (even if you don't) you'll need to keep oil on the bamboo. Bamboo is a grass that is designed by nature to process moisture and when it has ver little moisture it can cause the bamboo to shrink, crack and become brittle. For this exact reason we've pulled our model of bamboo cases of the store until we can thoroughly test our latest bamboo phone cases with some natural oils for an extend period of time. 

LIfehacker Article: http://lifehacker.com/5903080/should-i-use-a-case-on-my-phone

We keep a pretty close eye on the search terms coming into the Beta Ro Omega store and we are very happy to see this search string showing up more often: "fiftythree paper what stylus" or some variation of "what is the best stylus for FiftyThree paper app." We are big-tome believers in quality and the way a product makes you feel when you use it and we've gone to great lengths to make our BRVSH stylus perform better than any other stylus on the market. You simply can not get a good drawing stylus with a little nub of conductive foam. It drags and tweaks your natural stroke. So when it comes to the best app for the BRVSH and drawing its fifty-three's paper app. It's a perfect match! The Paper App mimics a sketch book better than any other app we've seen yet and offers a simple set of tools that expedite drawing, note taking and rapid idea documenting like no other. Instead of endless features that kind-of work, the Paper app has just enough tools, that do exactly what you need. Simply put, you'll get more out of the fifty-three paper app with a BRVSH stylus. 

www.brvsh.com

www.fiftythree.com/paper