Excerpted from Illustrator CS6 New Features video training course on lynda.com. As mentioned in our first look at Illustrator CS6, one of the key new features of Illustrator is the ability to make seamless patterns both quickly and intuitively. Prior to CS6, the job of pattern creation could sometimes be a fussy and fiddly exercise, […]
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Got a fetish for Frutiger? An Urge for Univers? Or are you a pure bred Helvi-cat? If you’re an Android user, you may soon be able to use your favorite font in your phone’s user interface. Monotype Imaging has released new software that promises to provide an unprecedented level of quality and control for typography […]
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Pros: Dramatically improved Camera Raw; simple but useful video editing; great new Crop tool; improved performance; improved typographic controls; great wide-angle distortion correction Cons: Bridge sees no discernible improvement; interface changes may bother some Score: 90 It’s been a year since the last update to Adobe’s Creative Suite. CS 5.5 shipped in May of 2011, […]
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In 2011, type designer Travis Kochel devised a very clever method of creating charts and graphs with a font he called FF Chartwell. FF Chartwell allowed you to create great-looking pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs by simply typing values separated by + signs, applying the font, and turing on ligatures. It was a […]
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In business, there are two ways to grow your company with new technology: you can build it or you can buy it. In the digital publishing realm, Adobe has chosen the first approach, creating their Digital Publishing Suite tools from scratch. Today Quark showed that they’re taking the second approach, announcing the acquisition of Mobile […]
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Rorohiko’s Soxy allows you to designate files to open in a specific version of an application. On a daily basis, Soxy can preserve your sanity by saving you many needless clicks. Once in a while, it can also save your bacon by preventing you from accidentally opening and saving a client’s files in the wrong […]
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In 1968 when I was 12 my school took part in a city-wide competition where students produced small posters promoting fire safety. Despite my complete lack of ability as an illustrator, I managed to crank out a crude but winning entry which depicted a young man with long hair sitting on a sofa, smoking a […]
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What’s your preferred input device for working with your computer? Trackpad? Wacom? Trusty old mouse and keyboard? There’s a company in San Francisco that thinks it can replace all those devices and more with something that allows you to simply gesture with your hands. If you’ve seen the film Minority Report with Tom Cruise, you […]
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