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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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.
Miniature Photographer Lori Nix
February 9, 2008
- photo used with permission -
I found this photographer on Cool Hunting. Her photography is very interesting and has that certain something that makes you want to keep looking at it. For me it’s the same feeling that I get from looking at very interesting historical objects.
Check it out I think you’ll like it and may be inspired by it, I was.
Make sure you watch the video.
Lori Nix’s website
http://www.lorinix.net/
Video about Lori Nix on Cool Hunting
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2007/07/lori_nix.php
I hope my title is how you would like to be described Lori?
