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A Swap Meet Every Creative Pro Will Love

Last week, I went to a swap meet and found a 1973 Polaroid camera still in its original case. On eBay, it could sell for $100, but I paid just $1. Now there’s a digital equivalent of a swap meet that targets creative pros, except it’s even better because you don’t have to pay a […]

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How to Use Adobe Ideas

Adobe Ideas is a digital sketchbook app, available in the Apple app store and via Google Play. It can be used as a mobile companion to Creative Suite apps, allowing users to create sketches on their mobile devices, and then sync them to their computers (via Adobe Creative Cloud) to continue working in Illustrator. Files […]

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Beck’s New Do-It-Yourself Album, Song Reader

Beck Hansen’s musical career has always been marked by a willingness to experiment, to combine new and old forms, and otherwise zig when the rest of the world zags. But his latest move might surprise even longtime fans. His next album, Song Reader, will only be released by publisher McSweeney’s as a printed book of […]

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PsDefaults: modern replacement graphics for Photoshop

Photoshop has been around for more than twenty years, and while each release brings powerful new features, the application never gets a complete overhaul. There are some things lurking inside that slick, dark CS6 interface that seem like they haven’t been updated since the first Clinton administration. In particular, consider some of the graphic presets, […]

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