Tune In, Turn On and Pinch Pixels
August issue of Print Action magazine with a review of Plug-in Suite 5.
Monday Freebie: Fontspace
Free fonts for private and commercial use.
Adobe CS5 Reviewed
I’ve been working with a pre-release version of Adobe CS5 for a couple of months now and share my experience in the May 2010 edition of Print Action Magazine which should be arriving in your mailbox any day now. What? You say you don’t have a subscription? I realize all these new-fangled eReaders promise to [...]
Adobe CS5 ready to roll
Pre-release software often has fun splash screens revealing the cool code names used by the project engineers. Adobe CS5 is no exception featuring a bit of an “Alice in Wonderland” theme… clockwise from upper left: Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Bridge CS5 and boring old InDesign CS5. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of global economic [...]
Free plug-ins for Photoshop™
Click on this screen capture for a close-up view of the onOne Software PhotoFrame 4.5 interface. This is an excellent tool for adding artsy borders to images. Seems like plug-ins come and go with each new version of Creative Suite. Extensis (the makers of Suitcase font management utilities) used to produce some of my favourites, [...]
Quark Flashes!
Recognizing that the dissemination of information cannot be limited to print alone, Quark been hard at work growing their traditional publishing market into Flash™, interactive and web-based media. Quark’s had a tough go of it however, competing against Adobe’s Creative Suite and it’s full compliment of cross-media authoring tools isn’t easy. In response to this [...]
Online resources for designers
Creativity on demand is a tough regime day after day! Even the very best designer can sometimes need a little inspiration to get those concepts kick started, or some fresh ideas for that next Photoshop project. Macworld magazine’s website has an excellent little piece highlighting five essential websites for designers. Additionally, both Quark and Adobe have their own online design [...]
Happy 20th Birthday Photoshop!
It’s rare when one single software product literally redefines both the photographic and graphic arts industries. Adobe Photoshop is one such product! I can still vividly remember sitting down at a Mac II FX fully loaded with a (very expensive) 256mb of RAM and firing up Adobe Photoshop for the first time – that was [...]
Laziest Blogger EVER!
Well, I’m getting a bit better… now I manage to update my blog monthly. By now I have no illusions, and likely no readers either! I can’t help it, I make my living in print, and therefor I’m trying to focus my efforts on work for print media. Anyways, here’s a couple of recent articles [...]


