Adobe continues the drive to make its creative tools omnipresent by releasing Photoshop Touch for iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones. So now for $4.99, you can carry many of the core features of Photoshop in your pocket (minus layer masks), and sync your work to all your devices using a free Creative Cloud membership (up […]
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As our creative lives and works become increasingly digital, artifacts of print technology are given an air of nostalgia (and fun) that bits and bytes just can’t replicate. For example, check out these CMYK playing cards from the clever folks at Hundred Million. Hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds are replaced with cyan, magenta, yellow, and […]
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Getting the word out has never been something you can do all by yourself: It takes a village. Even Paul Revere, as he galloped from town to town in 1775, needed to enlist the help of influential networkers in each community to make sure his message got to everyone who needed to hear it. In […]
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A small but productive feature in InDesign CS6 eliminates overset text
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The newest episode of Off Book, the PBS web video series on cutting edge arts and artists is devoted to the topic of illustration. It features conversations with three noted artists, Yuko Shimizu, Sean Gordon Murphy, and Molly Crabapple. There’s also an introductory segment on the history of illustration, which shows how the advent of […]
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Russell Brown’s Adobe Paper Textures for Photoshop From the wacky brilliance of Doctor Russell Brown and the folks at FlyPaper Textures comes the Adobe Paper Textures panel for Photoshop. The panel lets you choose from an excellent selection of textures by FlyPaper to apply to your artwork in a variety of blend modes. You can […]
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If you ever struggle to choose the right exposure settings on your camera, but you don’t want to pay for (and lug around) a separate light meter, you might want to check out a Kickstarter project called Luxi. Luxi is small diffusion dome that clips over the front-facing camera of an iPhone to serve as […]
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