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Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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 [...]

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 [...]

PhotoKeys for iPhone

Friday, July 31, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: PhotoKeys for iPhone [iTunes App Store link] is an interesting app. In short, it turns your iPhone into a small touch screen to access the Photoshop tool palette—Move, Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand and so on—as well as other common functions such as Copy, Paste, Undo, Save, etc. You get [...]

Monthly Review – May 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’ve decided to call these Monthly reviews now since I don’t seem to be able to update them weekly much anymore. I’ve been busy, so here are some notable Go Media happenings for May. Launched a new Go Media site at www.gomedia.us. We haven’t updated our portfolio and design [...]

The Day After: Photoshop CS4 Resources

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: We didn’t get a chance to beta test Photoshop CS4 here at Go Media, but it looks like a worthy upgrade. Here’s a collection of previews & feature lists of the latest & greatest Adobe Photoshop. If you’re in a rush here is the meat of what I gathered [...]

First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS4

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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Thirteen versions and twenty-one years after the very first Illustrator, Adobe is rolling out beta versions of Illustrator CS4. After so many iterations, you might wonder what Adobe could possibly do to make Illustrator CS4 worth the cost of the upgrade. In this preview, I am going to highlight the most noticeable changes with big [...]

Jeff’s Weekly Review 6-30 to 7-3

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Round 4 of my weekly review. Here’s what I got done in the short, 4-day workweek last week. I didn’t get around to posting this last week because of the holiday (Independence Day for readers outside the US). Launched the new GoMediaZine theme. Which you are looking at. This [...]

Adobe Bridge is iTunes for Designers

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Really? Think about it: What if every time you wanted to jam to your Summer 2001 Playlist you had to re-construct it from your mess of mp3s in a folder called “downloads”? Well, you don’t, because iTunes doesn’t organize your tunes by folder, it organizes them by metadata: artist, [...]