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Roundup: Mac Utilities for Designers

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A quick round up of some interesting new and updated Mac utilities of interest to creative types. Photoshop Automator Actions 5.0 (free/$19.95) A package of Actions that lets you control many of Photoshop’s most common functions from within Mac OS X’s Automator, letting you add Photoshop functionality to your [...]

Acorn: Impressive Pixel Editor for Mac

Tuesday, March 30, 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’

Thursday, February 11, 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 [...]

ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

Wednesday, December 9, 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 work in InDesign. What [...]

Back Up Your Mac

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hard drive failure. Not something creative people think about often. At least not until it’s happened to you. I went from not even considering a “backup solution” to being (probably) overly cautious and redundant about my backup setup for the Mac and all my creative files. Yes, you need [...]

Woe is Mac…

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I recently purchased a brand new Mac Book Pro and I totally love it. Let’s just face the facts; Apple has the whole user experience nailed. From the moment I opened the mailer and lifted out the beautifully designed, Apple branded box, I was in a state of total [...]

Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Free download, Adobe Air application that allows you to look up keyboard shortcuts for any Adobe software. Well, at least Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore and Acrobat Pro. The shortcuts are only for the CS4 versions of these applications.

Paparazzi!: Full Web Page Screenshots Utility (OS X)

Friday, August 21, 2009

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Paparazzi!: Full Web Page Screenshots Utility (OS X)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Paparazzi! is a handy little niche utility for Mac OS X that creates screenshots of full webpages. Add a URL (or choose from a list of recently visited sites) and Paparazzi! brings up the page in a mini-browser. Save the file in your preferred format, with custom file name [...]

Adobe: R.I.P PPC

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Mac users out there either have something to celebrate or cry about, depending on how old your Mac is: Adobe announced that they are no longer supporting PowerPC (PPC) processors starting with Creative Suite 5. On the Creative Suite 4 FAQ Adobe lays it out pretty flatly that older [...]