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The Designer’s Toolbox: Free Print & Web Design Resources

Published on September 27, 2008 in resources. 1 Comment Tags: business, design, forms, free, graphic design, resources, templates.

The Designer’s Toolbox looks to be a handy one-stop shop for free templates, specs, dimensions, and information for standard postcards, envelopes, CD/DVD layouts, HTML characters, and more.

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Free ‘Flatting’ Photoshop Plugin For Comic Artists

Published on July 30, 2008 in productivity, resources and tools. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, color, comic, CS3, free, Mac, Photoshop, plugin, vector.

Just stumbled across these handy – and free – Photoshop plugins which should be a huge time-saver for comic artists who ink & color their pages in Photoshop. A process also known as ‘flatting’.

These have to be a huge productivity booster to any artist working with coloring line art in Photoshop, not just comic book artists and the like.

I can already envision many applications for these in my workflow, even though I am primarily a vector artist.

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Free Photoshop Brush: Stumpy Pencil

Published on June 21, 2008 in resources. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe Photoshop, art, brush, cartoon, drawing, free, illustrator, Photoshop, sketch, Wacom.

Cartoonist Mike Foran has a couple of cool number 2 pencil Photoshop brushes – free to download – that I stumbled across the other day. For some time now I have been on the casual lookout for a Photoshop brush that mimicked a regular-ol’ number 2 pencil. Seems Foran was on that line of thought as well.

Foran’s brush has a nice line quality, varied from thick to thin based on your Wacom tablet pressure, and has a slight angle similar to a flat-worn pencil tip.

The brush also has a nice light feel at light pressure, and darkens quickly with pressure added. The texture and look of the brush marks/pencil lines is perfect.

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Jumpcut: Free OS X Clipboard History Utility

Published on May 24, 2008 in productivity. 0 Comments Tags: art, free, freeware, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, productivity, resources, shareware, software, utility.

Jumpcut is a very handyÂ clipboard extender for Mac OS X. What Jumpcut does is remember a user-specified number of text items copied to the clipboard, and allows one to select from them when pasting.

The standard OS X clipboard allows the user to paste only the last-copied item. Jumpcut just keeps track of everything you have copied using the Command (âŒ˜) -C shortcut or the Edit -> Copy menu item.

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The Adobe Illustrator Exchange: Great Resource For Illustrator Actions, Brushes, Scripts and More

Published on May 17, 2008 in productivity and resources. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, design, free, illustrator, Photoshop, resources, software.

A hit-or-miss resource I always forget to check, the Adobe ExchangeÂ has a decent amount of downloadable resources for use with just about every piece of software they offer. In particular here I am focusing on Illustrator section of the Exchange.