This may be a silly post, but after many many hours reading everything I could find on the web and coming away more confused than I started, I developed the following rules to sort out the information given.
1) Look at the art that is produced by the artist giving the advice. For starters, is it of excellent quality? Is it a similar style you are trying to achieve?
2) Look at what the artist is saying in this and other postings. Look elsewhere if:
a) advice screams of opinion stated as fact i.e. "don't use black" or the classic "this is the way the masters did it" (nobody really knows)
b) argument for argument sake. i.e. "rgb versus cmyk"
c) advice without giving an explanation so you can understand the underlying reasons.
3) Look for real professionals, people that are concerned about quality of art and concerned about the profession. Look at the organizations they belong to.
A good example of quality information are the posts by Virgil Elliott and Thomas Jefferson Kitts on Yahoo groups cowdisley. See Thomas Kitts blog at http://www.thomaskitts.blogspot.com/
Off to Catalina in the morning.
Larry
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