GoMediaZine» Product Review http://www.gomediazine.com Graphic design tutorials, freebies, & advice by working artists and designers. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:38:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Real-world advice from working artists and designers. GoMediaZine no GoMediaZine jeff@gomedia.us jeff@gomedia.us (GoMediaZine) GoMediaZine Podcast graphic design, artist, business, inspiration, go media, tutorials, advice, illustration, photoshop, illustrator, art GoMediaZine» Product Review http://www.gomediazine.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.gomediazine.com/category/design-articles/product-review/ Find my Font http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/find-my-font/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=find-my-font http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/find-my-font/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:00:23 +0000 Simon H. http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=17178 Find my Font is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 font seems familiar but you can’t recall its name. You start going through the fonts on your computer but after several minutes you realize this is hopeless. Introducing ‘Find my Font’. A software application that runs on your computer and finds the fonts of a given bitmap image. No more wasted time looking for…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/find-my-font/feed/ 90 A review of LetterMPress http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/a-review-of-lettermpress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-review-of-lettermpress http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/a-review-of-lettermpress/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:00:32 +0000 Simon H. http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=16207 A review of LetterMPress is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 what this app can do. I knew drawing apps could be amazing — just look through George Coghill’s Flickr stream, he has some sweet  preliminary sketches done with Sketchbook Pro — but simulating letter press design? Another fact of interest is that the app’s development was funded through Kickstarter, like the last WMC Fest. After a…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/a-review-of-lettermpress/feed/ 3 The Wonderful Tools of Astute Graphics http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/the-wonderful-tools-of-astute-graphics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-wonderful-tools-of-astute-graphics http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/the-wonderful-tools-of-astute-graphics/#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00:27 +0000 Simon H. http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=15700 The Wonderful Tools of Astute Graphics is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 menus,” credit to Von Glitschka), so I decided to never get them. Then, a few months ago, Astute Graphics launched a new version of their tools, got them rebranded by Von Glitschka (see a pattern?) and made quite a buzz about it. I downloaded the trial, watched the videos, and then…work happened. I…

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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 various reasons: I’ve never reviewed an app before I just recently became the daily user of an iPad The starting point Well, it’s quiet simple: devices like the iPad make for a really exciting support for various apps, built to answer various needs. It’s just logical to  think about using the device itself to conceptualize the…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/app-cooker-review/feed/ 9 Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/review-phantasm-cs-plugin-for-adobe-illustrator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-phantasm-cs-plugin-for-adobe-illustrator http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/review-phantasm-cs-plugin-for-adobe-illustrator/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:30:58 +0000 George Coghill http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=11441 Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 Illustrator. Today I want to introduce you to a plugin that in some ways goes beyond my notion of a plug-in, since it adds so many features that you wouldn’t ever expect to be able to do within Adobe Illustrator: Phantasm CS. Developed by Astute Graphics, Phantasm CS can best be summed up…

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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 there’s lot’s of great little features when you poke around the single-window interface. You can set up multiple comparison sets with tabs, and add any number of files per tab. The image comparison tool supports JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD and more. Compare files using Two-Up, One-Up, Split & Difference. The text comparison tool will…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/kaleidoscope-text-image-comparison-utility/feed/ 23 Adobe Creative Suite 5 http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/adobe-creative-suite-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adobe-creative-suite-5 http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/adobe-creative-suite-5/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:30:24 +0000 George Coghill http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=10115 Adobe Creative Suite 5 is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 most familiar with. Mostly I am going to talk about what I think are the most compelling features from an illustrator/designer’s point of view. We’ll start off with the granddaddy of Adobe software, Photoshop. Oh, and I have not used any of these new versions — but rest assured I’ll have a copy once…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/adobe-creative-suite-5/feed/ 35 Acorn: Impressive Pixel Editor for Mac http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/acorn-impressive-pixel-editor-for-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acorn-impressive-pixel-editor-for-mac http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/acorn-impressive-pixel-editor-for-mac/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:30:22 +0000 George Coghill http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=9988 Acorn: Impressive Pixel Editor for Mac is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 pixel-based image editors on the Mac are surprisingly rare. Enter Acorn Flying Meat Software has a fantastic alternative: Acorn. Priced at only $49.95 (and read on for details on the free option). It’s a suprisingly powerful app with some features Adobe could learn a trick or two from. The Basics If you’ve used Photoshop, or any…

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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 a special discount offer on Art Files for our Go Media ‘Zine readers. Get it together Art Files is a standalone program for Mac OS X that gives Illustrator users a “collect for output” or “package” feature, just like in InDesign. Perhaps because Art Files was created for such a specific purpose, it’s dead simple…

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]]> http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/illustrator/art-files-illustrators-missing-collect-for-output/feed/ 33 ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/foreversave-versioned-file-backup-for-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=foreversave-versioned-file-backup-for-mac http://www.gomediazine.com/design-articles/product-review/foreversave-versioned-file-backup-for-mac/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:30:07 +0000 George Coghill http://www.gomediazine.com/?p=9331 ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac is a post from: GoMediaZine

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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 work in InDesign. What about Illustrator and Photoshop users? Enter ForeverSave. ForeverSave is a clever application that does versioned auto-saving of your open files. ForeverSave isn’t limited to Adobe software, but it’s the primary reason I was interested in the app. It works silently behind the scenes, yet instantly accessible via the menubar icon. Very customizable, not only…

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