Tag Archive for 'OS X'

OS X QuickLook Plugin for Photoshop Brush Files

Published on April 15, 2009 in resources. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Finder, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, plugin, Quick Look.

For all you Photoshop brush junkies out there, here’s a Mac OS X Quick Look plugin to preview Photoshop Brush Files (.abr) in the Finder.

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Mac OS X 10.5: Essential System Fonts

Published on April 12, 2009 in Apple/OS X. 0 Comments Tags: 10.4, 10.5, font, graphics software, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, software, troubleshooting.

Recently I was dealing with a problem in GarageBand, where the application would lock up when I was attempting the change the tempo of a song. For many months I struggled with this until it got to the point where I decided to do some in-depth troubleshooting. How does this relate to illustration you may ask? Turns out the problem was font related, and affected the performance of the software. Since this could affect any piece of software on your Mac, and therefore productivity, I thought it worth passing along as this could easily affect your graphics software as well.

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Fontcase Review at The Graphic Mac

Published on February 2, 2009 in reviews. 0 Comments Tags: font, Mac, OS X, review, software.

I recently wrote a guest-review over at Mac OS X-based graphic design blog The Graphic Mac for the brand-new font management utility Fontcase.

In short, I have found Fontcase to be a very cool new font manager for OS X. It has a few limitations, but the good news is that the developers at Bohemian Coding have told me all the small gripes I had were to be remedied in the near future and the ones they weren’t aware of (which I suggested) were also added to the feature list.

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Cursorcerer: Hide Your Cintiq Cursor

Published on January 30, 2009 in software. 0 Comments Tags: Cintiq, customization, Mac, OS X, productivity, software, utility, Wacom.

I don’t own a Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet, but I have heard quite a bit of grumbling from Cintiq owners about the way the cursor is displayed: I guess it’s offset a bit with the idea that your hand would obscure the cursor so Wacom has offset it a bit, which takes some getting used to.

But those Cintiq users are in luck: there’s a utility out there that might just ease your pain.

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6 Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts For Illustrator Users

Published on January 16, 2009 in productivity, software and tips. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, illustrator, keyboard commands, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, tip.

Here are a few handy keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop for those of you out there like me who spend an inordinate amount of time in the Creative Suite primarily using Illustrator. These are not keyboard shortcuts that you can use in Illustrator, but rather are keyboard shortcuts providing methods of doing things in Photoshop that you are used to doing in Illustrator that at first it might seem isn’t possible, like click directly on an object to select it, drag to a new layer, etc.