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Find my Font

1. February 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: What is Find My Font? Find My Font is a software created by Softonium Development. As its name suggests it, its purpose is to help the user identify fonts. Has this ever happened to you? You are given some printed text or logo and want to reproduce it. The [...]

A review of LetterMPress

21. November 2011

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: LetterMPress, or the art and craft of letter press design… On your iPad! Some explanations Huh, what? I guess this quote deserves some explanation. Through intensive web browsing, I came across this wonderful iPad app: LetterMPress. Then I found this amazing Flickr group. I was sincerely blown away by [...]

The Wonderful Tools of Astute Graphics

28. September 2011

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A bit of background information Astute Graphics is a company from the UK. I’ve come across the name a couple times, through people like Von Glitschka, or through desperate searches on how to create proper vector halftones. I have a personal stance against plugins (“creativity doesn’t come from drop-own [...]

App Cooker review

26. July 2011

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hello readers! Today, I want to share with you my impressions after trying out App Cooker, an iPad app that assists in the process of conceptualizing and planning mobile apps. It has been created by Hot Apps Factory, a French studio. This is a new exercise for me, for [...]

Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator

19. August 2010

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Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Not many Adobe Illustrators are aware of the plug-in functionality of Adobe Illustrator. I don’t believe it’s promoted very well. There’s not a good one-stop shop to find plug-ins in one place, with reviews and user feedback. And it’s a shame, because there are many killer plug-ins out there for [...]

Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

3. June 2010

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Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Kaleidoscope for Mac is an interesting new file comparison utility. It looks to be a great tool for both web developers as well as designers, and as far as I know it’s the first utility of it’s kind to do image file comparison. The app is super snappy, and [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 5

13. April 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: It’s that time of the, um 18-month release cycle again. Time for a new version of Adobe’s Creative Suite. This time up: version 5. For this initial overview, I’m just going to talk about the new stuff in Photoshop and Illustrator since those are the apps that I am [...]

Acorn: Impressive Pixel Editor for Mac

30. March 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Photoshop is the workhorse of the design industry. It’s an industry standard. But even Photoshop’s biggest fans will admit it can be quite daunting for basic tasks. So what to do for either users who don’t need the full version of Photoshop or have a limited budget? Quality, low-priced [...]

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. And be sure to read on for [...]