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The Wonderful Tools of Astute Graphics

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Archived; click post to view. 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 [...]

The Ultimate Guide to Managing your design projects – Part 2: The history of Proof Lab

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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The Ultimate Guide to Managing your design projects – Part 2: The history of Proof Lab

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’ve always had a strange combination of passions – art and business. I don’t think these two areas of interest are typically held by one person. But for me, they are. So, it was no surprise that when I started Go Media I was consistently thinking about the business [...]

The Ultimate Guide to Managing your Design Projects – Part 1. A false start.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

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The Ultimate Guide to Managing your Design Projects – Part 1. A false start.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: WARNING! This entire blog article is an advertisement. Wait! I know what you’re thinking – either 1. “This guy is crazy,” 2. ”I’m going to stop reading this article immediately” or 3. “This is all just a clever device to pique my curiosity and keep me reading. Damn it! [...]

Scriptographer

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Scriptographer is a pretty amazing plugin available for Adobe Illustrator. It basically frees the user (at least those familiar with JavaScript) from relying on a third-party developer to create the plugin or script that you have in mind, by allowing you to create it yourself. I’m going to start [...]

Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator

Thursday, August 19, 2010

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Review: Phantasm CS plugin for Adobe Illustrator

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 [...]

Roundup: Mac Utilities for Designers

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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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 [...]

Adobe: Create Digital Magazines for the iPad

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Adobe: Create Digital Magazines for the iPad

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: There’s been quite a brouhaha between Adobe and Apple as far as the lack of Flash on Apple’s iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch). I’ve mentioned on GoMediaZine in the past that I believe Adobe’s best plan of action would be to offer development tools for HTML5 and [...]

Layer Lifter for InDesign

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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Layer Lifter is a simple, free Adobe InDesign plug-in from Rorohiko that offers an alternative method to using the layers palette for moving objects between layers. Using it couldn’t simpler: first select one or more objects on a spread, and then right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac), and pick a destination layer from the LayerLifter context [...]

Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

Archived; click post to view. 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 [...]