Scanning Around with Gene: Getting That New Bike Down the Chimney

Vintage images and memories from when a shiny new bike was the ultimate Christmas gift for kids.

AKVIS Coloriage v. 4.0: Colorize Your Memories

With the release of AKVIS Coloriage V.4.0 for Mac and Win, AKVIS LLC presents the cutting edge technology for automatic B&W photo colorization. The newest version offers yet more flexibility in manipulation of colors on your photo. Now it is possible to change not only the color of the object but its brightness as well; […]

Managing Editor Inc. Releases AdForce 5

Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe Systems portfolio company and a leading provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today announced the release of AdForce 5, the latest version of MEI’s easy-to-use ad layout program for small to mid-size publications. AdForce, an issue-planning system with powerful comprehensive runsheet capabilities and time-saving layout tools, boasts […]

Flashforward at Macworld

For the first time, the world’s longest running and largest Flash conference is partnering with the Macworld Conference & Expo. Flashforward@Macworld is one of the Power Tools conference tracks and offers several sessions of Mac-focused Flash education during the first two days of Macworld San Francisco 2007, January 8-12. Whether you’re a long-time Mac fan […]

BeLight Software Releases Art Text

BeLight Software today released Art Text, a new software to create high-quality headings, logos, icons, banners and more. The program features pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, shading materials, other advanced visual effects for anyone who wants to make his text works look catchy. User can modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy […]

YabbAdobe’s InDesign Holiday Lights

Our friend Russell Viers, who runs the very funny and informative site Yabb-Adobe-Doo, has posted a wonderful InDesign tip in comic format. The tip has to do with an “easter egg” — a hidden and undocumented feature inside InDesign — that lets you create “Christmas lights” and apply them to any path as a custom stroke style. Plus, as a bonus, the comic strip features another friend and colleague, Scott Citron! Laugh out loud. Joe Bob says Check it Out.

And, as an extra bonus for reading this post, we’ll give you a hint about some other…

onOne Software Announces Photoshop CS3 Compatibility for All Software Plug-ins

onOne Software, Inc., announces today that they will offer free Photoshop® CS3 compatibility updates to their Photoshop plug-ins PhotoFrame Pro 3, Intellihance Pro 4 and Mask Pro 4 software. Users who purchase Genuine Fractals 4.1 or Genuine Fractals Print Pro 4.1 on or after December 18, 2006 qualify for a free upgrade to Genuine Fractals […]

Winners Chosen from Exceptional International Field for the 2006 Epson Color Imaging Contest

Seiko Epson Corporation (“Epson”) held the 2006 Epson Color Imaging Contest for digitally output photographs and graphic works from May 25 through September 20 and received numerous entries. After rigorous screening of all 16,134 works, 65 were selected for the Grand Prize and other awards. All the winning entries will be on display at Spiral […]

Fixing InDesign’s Mac Template Files

P-hall wrote: “Whenever I save a file as a Template and place it on a server for clients to use, they find that double-clicking on it just produces a copy of the file.” You have discovered an unseemly truth about InDesign’s templates: They’re one of the few truly poorly implemented features in the program. On […]