A Wireless Mouse for Graphic Designers!
November 1, 2009
Apple Magic Mouse
I have tried wireless mice before and they have never worked for me for design work, just too much lag or inconsistent performance when doing intricate Photoshop or other similar work. I have been waiting for Apple to design a new mouse that takes care of the Apple Mouse (previously Mighty Mouse) track ball gunking issue. I love the way the Mighty Mouse works when the track ball isn’t having issues but if it’s been a while I know the frustration is coming soon.
Well then Apple came out with the Magic Mouse and it is Magic! I bought one Friday at an Apple store after making sure I could return it if it doesn’t work for my design needs and was assured there is a 14 day return policy. As soon as I arrived home I set it up and downloaded the driver update. I then cranked up Photoshop and low and behold the Magic Mouse works great! Finally I’m completely happy with my mouse and it’s even wireless. I was beginning to wonder if anyone would ever come up with a wireless mouse that is useable for Graphic Design.
The purpose of this post is to inform others about a wireless mouse that in my opinion works for design work but I’m also liking the functionality of the touch sensitive surface and gestures.
Apple Magic Mouse gestures
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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 »
2000-2008 AIGA|Aquent Salary Survey of Design Salaries
June 11, 2008
Current ( 2000-2008 ) design salary ranges in the United States. It’s very helpful to know what the salary range is for graphic design and to know where you are on the spectrum.
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?).
Apple Store Down for Update
April 28, 2008
What’s coming?
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.
Appearance of Blacks in InDesign
April 5, 2008
Rich Blacks in InDesign
Different Black Formula Swatches
These blacks have different CMYK values as shown in steps below.
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Sigma DP1 Full Size Sensor Point and Shoot
March 28, 2008
A full sized sensor in a point and shoot sized camera. The Sigma DP1 has a full sized DSLR Foveon X3 full color sensor. It should be able to produce higher ISO lower noise pictures than other small digital cameras. The DP1 site also says that they have produced a very high quality lens for the camera.
“The DP1 uses the same 14 megapixel (2652×1768×3 layers) direct image sensor as the SD14.”
The price has been reported at $999 US.
Reportedly available in Spring 2008.
Sigma DP1 announcement on DPReview
Sigma DP1 on DPReview
Come on Canon do this with the G 10!
