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OS X QuickLook Plugin for Photoshop Brush Files
For all you Photoshop brush junkies out there, here’s a Mac OS X Quick Look plugin to preview Photoshop Brush Files (.abr) in the Finder.
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Tagged 10.5, Finder, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, plugin, Quick Look
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Mac OS X 10.5: Essential System Fonts
Recently I was dealing with a problem in GarageBand, where the application would lock up when I was attempting the change the tempo of a song. For many months I struggled with this until it got to the point where … Continue reading
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Tagged 10.4, 10.5, font, graphics software, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Software, troubleshooting
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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
Posted in Software, Tips
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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Automator Action Pack For Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator Automator Action Pack from Automated Workflows allows extended use of Mac OS X’s Automator in Leopard with 20 actions for use with Adobe Illustrator. For years I have been trying to wrap my head around Automator in OS X; … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Automator, illustrator, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Productivity, 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
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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Mac OS X 10.5.4 fixes Adobe CS3 ‘Save To Networked Volume’ Bug
Update to my previous post about the bug in Photoshop CS3 and other Adobe CS3 apps under Mac OS X 10.5.3 where saving a file to a networked drive will result in a corrupt file. Supposedly this has been fixed under … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Apple, Creative Suite, CS3, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop
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Photoshop Bug: Corrupt Files When Saving To Network Volume On Mac OS X 10.5.3
I just came across a serious bug in Photoshop CS3 under Mac OS X 10.5.3 (the newest version as of this post). Seems saving a file to a networked drive will result in a corrupt file. I found this out … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, bug, Creative Suite, CS3, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop
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Illustrator File Previews: SneakPeek Pro QuickLook Plugin For Mac OS X
SneakPeek Pro is a QuickLook plugin fro Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). In a nutshell, it extends file previews in both QuickLook and the Finder to previously unsupported file types such as Adobe Illustrator .ai files and EPS files. If … Continue reading
Jumpcut: Free OS X Clipboard History Utility
Jumpcut is a very handy clipboard extender for Mac OS X. What Jumpcut does is remember a user-specified number of text items copied to the clipboard, and allows one to select from them when pasting. The standard OS X clipboard allows … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, free, freeware, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Productivity, Resources, shareware, Software, utility
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Mac Vector App Showdown
A good, informative post over at TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) comparing low-cost vector software applications for Mac OS X by indepedent developers. The review is specifically comparing tools and techniques available in Adobe Illustrator CS3. The comparison covers four applications: … Continue reading
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Tagged Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Art, CS3, design, illustrator, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, review, shareware, Software, vector
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InDesign CS3 & Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”: The Good, The Bad & The Not-Too-Shabby
A while back I was ranting about the myriad issues I had been reading about concerning Adobe InDesign CS3 and Apple’s (then) new operating system Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”. I am happy to report that upon upgrading to 10.5, and using InDesign CS3, everything has … Continue reading
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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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
Even More CS3 & 10.5 Leopard Issues: Photoshop CS3
I just stumbled across some more Creative Suite 3 issues on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, on the Adobe support site Photoshop page. Supposedly this will be fixed by an OS X update, not an Adobe update (and Adobe and Apple … Continue reading
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Tagged 10.5, Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Art, Creative Suite, CS3, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop
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