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Genopal Color Scheme Generator Software: Weird Name, Cool Tool

Published on August 24, 2007 in art, productivity, software and tools. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, bitmap, CMYK, color, color theory, cool, cool stuff, Creative Suite, creativity, design, free, graphic design, graphics, hex, hexidecimal, HSB, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, process, productivity, resources, RGB, shareware, software, tool, web, web design, web links, Windows, Windows XP.

Genopal is a color scheme generator software application I just stumbled across, and it’s pretty interesting.

Instead of the standard color wheels most color scheme generator/explorer software programs utilize, Genopal doesn’t give you the option of choosing a color model such as Complimentary, Triadic and such. Instead there are two sliders, one for Color Diversity and one for Lightness Diversity. There’s a “Generate” button which them cycles though color schemes as analagous or as wild as you set the sliders.

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Adobe Creative Suite 3: First Thoughts

Published on August 15, 2007 in reviews, software and thoughts. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, Creative Suite, CS3, drawing, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, opinions, OS X, Photoshop, review, software, tool, Wacom.

Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 arrived this morning, and was immediately installed on both my trusty G4 and the MacBook. Here are my very initial thoughts on the first run of the main software applications: Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.

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Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet: Free Download

Published on August 7, 2007 in productivity. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, Creative Suite, free, illustrator, InDesign, keyboard commands, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, software, tip, tool.

Adobe Pen Tool 3Ã—5 index card Cheatsheet preview image Here’s a cool little idea from the geniuses at CreativeTechs.com: “cheatsheets” for Adobe software that are designed to print on a 3×5 index card, complete with space reserved to punch holes for a binder. Designed with the GTD/Hipster PDA crowd in mind. And they’re free!

This link is to the PDF cheatsheet for the Adobe pen tool, since most (or all) of it’s features work the same across the Creative Suite. A real cool visual reference guide, and just one in a series of cheatsheets for Adobe apps as well as other computer and Mac related info that you just sometimes need at your fingertips.

Looks like they are just starting out with these, so be sure to subcribe to the RSS feed and collect ‘em all!

Creative Bits poll – Concepts: Sketching vs Computer?

Published on August 5, 2007 in Illustration, art and cartooning. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartooning, Creative Suite, creativity, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, opinions, Photoshop, process, sketch, software, technique, Wacom.

Creative Bits has a neat informal poll going on about readers preferences for working on concepts: do you sketch with pencil & paper, or jump straight to the computer and work on the graphics software to start?

You can read my 2Â¢ in the comments section regarding the gradual takeover of the Wacom tablet and my Photoshop sketching habits. I still work on paper, but I find myself more and more finishing up sketches in Photoshop due to the endless flexibility I have to tweak and refine while I am perfecting things.

Using native graphics files in layouts

Published on July 27, 2007 in Illustration, cartooning and productivity. 3 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, Creative Suite, design, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, productivity, sketch, tip, vector.

James Dempsey over at the CreativeGuy design blog, has a post up recommending using native graphics files when placing them in layouts. This is something I am all in favor of as well, and have been doing so since picking up InDesign.

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