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

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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. [...]

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 [...]

Font Sleuth: Find Fonts Fast

Monday, November 2, 2009

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Win A Free License For Photoshop Brush Management App Brush Pilot!

Friday, July 17, 2009

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Go Media is proud to offer up 3 licenses for the awesome new Photoshop brush manager for OS X, Brush Pilot. Download the demo, give it a whirl and let us know in the comments what your favorite Brush Pilot feature is. We’ll be choosing winners at random [...]

10 Great Time-Saving Mac Utilities For Graphic Artists

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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10 Great Time-Saving Mac Utilities For Graphic Artists

Need more time in your design day? Put that Mac you bought to good use and let it do the work for you. This post covers some time-saving productivity/utility software gems for graphic designers, illustrators and any other creatives using Mac OS X, including some great plugins and utilities for Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.