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Flash, Floppy Disks & FreeHand

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Apple’s Steve Jobs just posted a long open letter on the reasoning behind the decision to exclude Flash support on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Jobs lists six major points surround the decision, but wraps it up and confirms what I suspected was the [...]

Color Management: Calibration and Profiling

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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Color Management: Calibration and Profiling

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Introduction Welcome to the second post in our color management series. Be sure to check out Part One if you haven’t already done so. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of calibrating and profiling your input & output devices in your color management workflow. This is probably [...]

Blank Canvas: Photoshop, Crashes & RAM

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: “Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for me? I’m not bragging or anything, but instead actually [...]

Create Glossy 3D Text using Xara 3D & Photoshop

Friday, April 16, 2010

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Create Glossy 3D Text using Xara 3D & Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I am going to show you how to create 3D text in Xara 3D and render it in Adobe Photoshop. I’ll share basic Photoshop key shortcuts that really help speed up production. As a final touch I’ll use the pen tool to draw lines that look like strings attached [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 5

Tuesday, April 13, 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 [...]

Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: It’s that time of year again fellow creative types. Well, actually that time of the 18-month release cycle for Adobe’s Creative Suite upgrade. I know many users out there have a feeling of “didn’t I just upgrade?”, but in fact the release cycle is indeed every 18-months and this [...]

Color Management in Adobe Photoshop

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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This is the first part of a comprehensive detailed series of posts guiding you through the image editing process step by step from profiling your display and managing your color space and settings, to profiling your printer and preparing your work for print out, to saving and distributing your work on the web.

Adobe Font Finder

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Fonts. What designer doesn’t have too many? And we are always on the hunt for more. The internet is a goldmine for fonts, but it’s not always easy to find just the font you’re looking for. It’s always good to have another font tool in your arsenal, and with [...]

Blank Canvas: How Often Do You Upgrade?

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Design software ain’t cheap. And for us designers and illustrators using the professional-level software to create such as Adobe Creative Suite, we find a typical 18-month cycle for new releases of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and the rest. GoMedia wants to know: how do you handle your upgrades? Do you [...]