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Art Files: Illustrator’s Missing ‘Collect for Output’

11. February 2010

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Art Files: Illustrator’s Missing ‘Collect for Output’

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Plenty of designers out there do their design work not in InDesign, but in Illustrator. If you’re among those, you’ve no doubt been confounded by the lack of a “collect for output” feature in Illustrator. Enter Art Files from Code Line Software. [...]

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ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

9. December 2009

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ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Although it rarely happens to me, I see tons of Twitter friends posting about their Adobe software crashing while working on a file. InDesign has a pretty robust temporary file feature that usually saves what you were working on, however that’s only useful if you [...]

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Font Sleuth: Find Fonts Fast

2. November 2009

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Font Sleuth: Find Fonts Fast

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Font Sleuth is an interesting new font browser application for Mac OS X. The first thing I noticed about this app—pretty darn fast. No font manager I have ever used is lightning fast when it comes to previewing fonts. Font Sleuth however was close. Give [...]

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Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

28. October 2009

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Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Timeline by PixelNovel is an interesting version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. As far as I am aware, there’s really nothing else like this out there for Photoshop users. Timeline allows you to save and review a file’s history [...]

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Wacom Bamboo Touch + Pen: First Impressions

19. October 2009

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Wacom Bamboo Touch + Pen: First Impressions

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Recently we let the readers know about the leaked multi-touch tablet from Wacom, the Bamboo Touch. Seems the official release was imminent, as Wacom released the actual Touch lineup only a few days later. Being the gadget geek I am, I needed [...]

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Adobe Photoshop CS5: Sneak Peek [video]

15. October 2009

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Adobe Photoshop CS5: Sneak Peek [video]

Here’s a quick sneak video of some experimental new features being worked on by Adobe for Photoshop CS5, including “wet” paints (similar to Corel Painter) as well as a very cool-looking warp tool. Warning: corny voiceovers.

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Wacom Bamboo Touch Revealed Early

22. September 2009

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Wacom Bamboo Touch Revealed Early

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Seems Wacom has a new product to be released, and the beans were spilled early by retailer Best Buy, who put the product out on the shelves before the official release date. In fact Wacom has no information on their site about the new device. [...]

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Sketchbook Mobile for iPhone

17. September 2009

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Autodesk, the makers of the excellent drawing & sketching software Sketchbook Pro have just released a companion app for the iPhone & iPod Touch, appropriately named Sketchbook Mobile [iTunes link]. The best part? Only $2.99! It’s a pretty impressive port, as it has many of the features found on it’s big brother [...]

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Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 1

5. August 2009

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Photoshop vs. Illustrator: Part 1

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Photoshop Vs. Illustrator in a no-holds-barred battle to the death! WARNING! This blog post contains foul language and dirty underhanded insults. The (harsh) opinions expressed in this article do not reflect those of Go Media Inc. or Adobe Inc. Please do not read further if you [...]

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