Adobe Flash Catalyst, Can’t Wait!
April 2, 2009
I cannot wait till this is released! If your a non-coding designer type check this out!!
Screenshot from Adobe Labs Flash Catalyst intro movie.
Adobe Flash Catalyst is a new application that Adobe has been working on for some time. It allows designers to make interfaces in their graphics apps such as Photoshop or Illustrator and then take them into Catalyst to add motion animations and interactivity WITHOUT CODING! Read the rest of this entry »
One of My First Wacom Drawings
May 26, 2008
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This is one of my first digital paintings with a Wacom tablet. I have a Wacom Intuos 6×11 right now but soon I want to get a Wacom Cintiq 12WX.
Flex, AIR, RIA, Thermo, What is this Stuff?
May 5, 2008
I’m not the code writing developer type so this is my simple understanding which I’m hoping is what some of you might need?
RIA stands for Rich Internet Applications. They are basically web applications that have some of the functionality of regular desktop applications. They can be developed using Flash, Flex (a framework that developers can use to build user interfaces with MXML and XML which is then compiled and turned into SWF file to run in Adobe Flash Player). Read the rest of this entry »
The Best Video Screen Capture for Mac
May 1, 2008
ScreenFlow is the best most Mac like screen capture application I have used! If you do video screen captures you HAVE to try it. It beats all others in my opinion and I have used most of them.
With ScreenFlow you can capture your desktop and your iSight camera at the same time! It also offers many really good features when editing such as the ability to have mouse clicks heard, a red growing ring from mouse clicks that they call radar effect, background windows and desktop blur automatically (it focuses on the window you are working in and blurs the rest) this can be set for whatever duration, and many others. It ROCKS! Also ScreenFlow captures don’t look washed out like some others.
For Export options it has:
- Web-High
- Web-High (Best Quality)
- Web-Low
- Web-Low (Best Quality)
- PAL DV
- NTSC DV
- Lossless
- iPhone
- Apple TV
- iPod
You can also scale the final output by % or to a custom pixel size.
You can also EASILY add chapter markers when editing and choose to include them when Exporting, this allows viewers to choose the chapter in a drop down menu in Quicktime.
You can name the chapters whatever you want I just typed Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 to test it.
(Not sure about chapter markers if converting to other formats because I haven’t done it?).
Adobe TV
April 11, 2008
A new resource to check out for Adobe CS3 tips!
Adobe TV looks like a pretty good start of something good. I have only watched a couple of videos so far but they were good and had some good CS3 tips. Like a YouTube channel for Adobe it looks like it will be a good tutorial resource. I’m glad that Adobe is heading this direction.
colormunki from X-Rite & Pantone
March 25, 2008
colormunki is a color tool from X-Rite and Pantone which will profile your monitor, printer and projector and integrates with design applications to capture and create color palettes. You can capture colors from photos and anything that you can scan over with the device. Price is $499.
Check it out it looks cool.
Strata Foto 3D
February 9, 2008
Strata Foto 3D allows you to take photographs of an object using a special printed mat so the software knows the positioning and turn the photos into a 3D object with the photos added for texture.
Watch videos of it in action here.
Interact with a 3D shoe on a web page which was made with Strata Foto 3D here.
Design Tools Weekly Podcast
January 22, 2008
Design Tools WEEKLY is a free weekly design news podcast.
They also publish a monthly paid subscription newsletter, Design Tools Monthly, which contains all the design news that you would have to dig everywhere to find. You can download a free sample issue and I think you will find that it contains a lot of good information.
Things Free Preview Now Available
January 6, 2008
There is now a Things free Public Preview available. Things is an application to help you organize to dos and it is the best I’ve seen, very good “Mac app”. Tags and very easy Mac like it just makes sense ease of use.
Jing Screen Capture for Mac or Windows
December 29, 2007
You all should check out this application. It is free right now as it is in development. It is a screen capture (video or image) application from TechSmith, the makers of Camtasia Studio and SnagIt, that makes it very quick and easy to upload and share with others. You can use Screencast.com, Flickr or FTP. I took a screen shot of the Jing logo on the Jing website for this post and uploaded to Flickr and then used Flickr’s “Blog This” feature to post this very quickly.
Here’s the link for Jing.
