Welcome to The Graphic Mac, a site dedicated to providing graphics and OSX tips & tricks, software reviews, and commentary on all things, graphics, design, Apple, and the Internet.

About James Dempsey:

I'm the owner/author here at TGM. I started the site (originally the "CreativeGuy" blog) because early in my career I had a difficult time finding help and solutions to problems learning the graphics applications I was using. It was a time when information sharing wasn't on the top of other designer's priority list, and the Internet had not yet been born. I always hated that.

The Graphic Mac is my attempt at helping other designers and Mac users, particularly new Mac users and designers, gain useful knowledge, find new resources, and have a little fun at the same time. After all, we're all in the same business, and well all have something worth sharing.

I have over 20 years of experience in the graphics and printing industry, including newspaper, print shop, design & PR firms, and ad agencies. Because of this, I like to think I've got a little something to contribute. And I hope you find it worth reading about. I'm also available for freelance design and production work, if you're looking for help in this area.

I'm a contributing writer at Macworld.com's Creative Notes blog, as well as several other sites around the Internet.

You can follow me on Twitter, and Facebook, as well as LinkedIn. I also have a personal blog, which you can browse through - if you're really interested in photos of me and my family, because that's about all you're really going to find there.

More about The Graphic Mac:

The main part of the site is the blog. I try to post to it daily, but you can also register and write your own blog posts as well. I welcome any tips, tutorials or commentary you may have that is appropriate for the audience.

You can also contribute links to other useful sites via the Weblink link located in the User Content Creation section in the upper left column. The latest links are displayed on the homepage, as well as under the Around The Web section in the main navigation bar.

There is a discussion forum available for you to ask questions and get help with applications. I would prefer you use the forums, rather than contacting me directly. That way, if I can't help you, perhaps someone else can. Other people also get the benefit of the answers there as well.

Tech Stuff:

The Graphic Mac is powered by Drupal, and open source CMS. I used to use Wordpress, but found it too limiting for a site of this size. The Graphic Mac theme is a customized them, brought to life by the Drupal Gods (ok, so I had a friend code it), so please don't ask where I got it. I'm not a Web/CSS coder by trade. The nifty pen icon in the logo was created by Reticula, which he graciously released under the Creative Commons license.

Thanks for visiting The Graphic Mac!