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Flash, Floppy Disks & FreeHand

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Apple’s Steve Jobs just posted a long open letter on the reasoning behind the decision to exclude Flash support on mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Jobs lists six major points surround the decision, but wraps it up and confirms what I suspected was the [...]

Blank Canvas: Photoshop, Crashes & RAM

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: “Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for me? I’m not bragging or anything, but instead actually [...]

Adobe Creative Suite 5

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: It’s that time of the, um 18-month release cycle again. Time for a new version of Adobe’s Creative Suite. This time up: version 5. For this initial overview, I’m just going to talk about the new stuff in Photoshop and Illustrator since those are the apps that I am [...]

Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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Blank Canvas: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 — Are You Upgrading?

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: It’s that time of year again fellow creative types. Well, actually that time of the 18-month release cycle for Adobe’s Creative Suite upgrade. I know many users out there have a feeling of “didn’t I just upgrade?”, but in fact the release cycle is indeed every 18-months and this [...]

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 [...]

Blank Canvas: How Often Do You Upgrade?

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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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 do you handle your upgrades? Do you [...]

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 [...]

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 it a few seconds [...]