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Blank Canvas: How Often Do You Upgrade?

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Timeline by PixelNovel is an interesting version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. As far as I am aware, there’s really nothing else like this out there for Photoshop users. Timeline allows you to save and review a file’s history [...]

Mac Vector Apps

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Our recent “Blank Canvas” post asked the question: “Adobe Or Not?”. As a followup, here’s a quick web roundup of some alternative vector graphics software applications for Mac OS X. These applications vary in price from free to about $100, and each offer some nice [...]

Tutorial: Killer 3D Poster Design with 3DS Max & Photoshop

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Tutorial: Killer 3D Poster Design with 3DS Max & Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Introduction Hello again! I was recently asked to do a flyer for a promotions company by the name of inFamous Productions; a very popular promotion movement in Western NY mainly stationed in Buffalo. My main objective was to create something unique that would [...]

Blank Canvas: Adobe Or Not?

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: It goes without saying that Adobe is pretty much the industry leader in professional-level graphics software. But that isn’t to say that there aren’t plenty of other options out there. Go Media Zine wants to know: Adobe or not? If you do [...]

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.