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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. And be sure to read on for [...]

Pantone In Your Pocket

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Pantone has recently released myPantone, a new color guide app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The $9.99 app allows you to choose from these PANTONE color system libraries: PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM (coated, uncoated and matte) PANTONE Goe (coated and uncoated) PANTONE Pastels (coated and uncoated) PANTONE FASHION + HOME [...]

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, with custom file name [...]

Quick Tip: Find Files On Your PC Fast With FileBox Extender

Friday, July 10, 2009

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Quick Tip: Find Files On Your PC Fast With FileBox Extender

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: One little app that I couldn’t live without is FileBox Extender for Windows. Fellow Go Media designer @Adam_Wagner originally introduced it to me last year. It’s a free, lightweight app for Windows that I use to quickly access frequently used directories. The description on their site says: FileBox enhances [...]

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.