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Photo Keys: Photoshop Toolbars On Your iPhone
iPhone Photo Keys is an interesting iPhone/iPod Touch Photoshop helper application available on the iTunes App Store. Photo Keys turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a Photoshop companion tool by putting the entire Photoshop toolbar, as well as many useful … Continue reading
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Tagged App Store, Apple, iPhone, iPod Touch, Photoshop, Productivity, Software
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Cursorcerer: Hide Your Cintiq Cursor
I don’t own a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet, but I have heard quite a bit of grumbling from Cintiq owners about the way the cursor is displayed: I guess it’s offset a bit with the idea that your hand would … Continue reading
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Tagged Cintiq, customization, Mac, OS X, Productivity, Software, utility, Wacom
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6 Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts For Illustrator Users
Here are a few handy keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop for those of you out there like me who spend an inordinate amount of time in the Creative Suite primarily using Illustrator. These are not keyboard shortcuts that you can use … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, illustrator, keyboard commands, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, OS X, Photoshop, Productivity, tip
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Adobe Apps: Backup Your Prefs
It’s happened to all of us digital creatives. The dreaded day when you just cannot get one of your Adobe applications to launch. Usually there’s a deadline looming (of course). You’ve restarted your computer (three times) and still you cannot get … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, backup, Creative Suite, how-to, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, PC, Productivity, Tips, troubleshooting, tutorial, Windows, Windows XP, workflow
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Video: Photoshop CS4 Drag-Resize Brush Keyboard Shortcut
Another brief video in my series introducing some great new features in Photoshop CS4 for artists, cartoonists, illustrators and anyone else who sketches or draws using Photoshop. This video features the excellent new keyoard shortcuts that allow you to drag-resize … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Art, artist, cartoon, Creative Suite, CS4, drawing, how-to, illustrator, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, Photoshop, Productivity, screencast, shortcuts, sketch, Software, technique, tool, tutorial, upgrade, vector, video, Wacom
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Adobe Illustrator Eraser Brush Tip: Option-Erase
Hold down the Option key when erasing using the Eraser Brush, and you’ll get a marquee that you can drag to erase a perfectly rectangular area. Bonus Eraser Tool tip: edit the keyboard shortcuts so the Eraser uses the “E” … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, illustrator, Productivity, Software, tip, workflow
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Wacom: Bamboo Dock
Wacom has a new online service and free companion software tool download called Bamboo Dock. The apps available so far are basic — a drawing/doodling app, a map you can draw on and a handwriting recognition app. The others I … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Air, free, graphics tablet, Mac, Resources, Software, tool, Wacom, Wacom Bamboo
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Wacom Tablet Drivers Updated
Wacom has updated their tablet driver software for the USB versions of all Intuos3 (PTZ), Intuos2 (XD), Intuos (GD), CintiqPartner (PTU) and Graphire2 (ET-0405A) pen tablets and the Cintiq 12WX, 20WSX, 21UX, 18SX, and 15X pen displays. Get the Mac OS … Continue reading
Adobe Creative Suite CS4 – New Tools & Features Videos From Layers Magazine
Layers Magazine has a hefty selection of videos showcasing the new tools and features of all the Adobe Creative Suite CS4. Each video is a short demo/tutorial,walkthough/how-to of all the new stuff you can expect in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, CS4, grpahics, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Software
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Adobe Software: Switching From Windows To Mac (or vice versa)
I didn’t know about this – and don’t ever plan to switch to Windows – but I thought it might be worth passing on the info that you can indeed switch from Windows to Mac (or Mac to Windows if that’s … Continue reading
Symmetries – Vector Path Software Tool
Symmetries from Earthlinksoft Software is an interesting symmetrical vector object generator tool. The control system is very intuitive, requring no knowledge of how to manipulate vector paths. While simplistic, it gives one a high level of control over exploring interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Productivity, shareware, Software, symmetry, tool, vector
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Photoshop’s 3GB RAM Limit – A Workaround For OS X Users
While I had no idea that Photoshop had a 3GB RAM limit, a clever user over at MacOSXHints.com has figured out a hack/solution/workaround using a RAM disk as a virtual scratch disk. Clever.
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Art, Creative Suite, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, Productivity
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Indie Vector Graphics App DrawIt – Free ‘Lite’ Version Now Available
Vector graphics software application DrawIt is one of many recent entries into the indie Mac developer vector graphics software field, including LineForm DrawBerry, VectorDesigner, and EazyDraw among others. Not only has the full version been updated to version 3.3.1, but … Continue reading
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Tagged free, graphic design, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, shareware, Software, vector
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FreeHand & Illustrator Comparison Video Series By Illustrator Garth Bruner
After various random rounds on Twitter lamenting the demise of Macromedia Freehand, cartoon-style illustrator Garth Bruner decided to do something about it. He’s started posting an ongoing series of YouTube video screencasts demonstrating key differences between Freehand and Adobe Illustrator. He highlights how … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Art, artist, cartoon, FreeHand, illustrator, Mac, Productivity, screen capture, Software, technique, vector, video
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11+ Excellent Mac OS X applications for a phenomenal price: MacHeist 2
As you may have noticed on this blog, I am a bit of a software junkie, particularly shareware/freeware. I love the ingenious functionality some of these independent developers bring to OS X, and also the direct access you have to … Continue reading
