Learn all there is to know about the “Business of Being Creative”. Media Artist Secrets provides creative inspiration, tells you how to market your talents, fine-tune your vision, advance your skills and share your creations with the world. This podcast covers all media arts, including career tips for artists into graphic design, desktop publishing, film and DV video directing, digital photography, web design, music creation, CG and computer animation, broadcast, movie making, Adobe Photoshop and many other types of multimedia. For the past five years, the podcast’s presenter, Franklin McMahon, has been the director of Portland Media Artists, a collaborative group of creative artists that includes writers, directors, actors, photographers, musicians and web designers. As an independent filmmaker he has directed numerous shorts, feature-length movies and television series. An accomplished writer, he currently authors articles about multimedia and the entertainment industry.