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Must-have Adobe Illustrator plugin: Zoom to Selection

Published on May 24, 2007 in Illustration, productivity, reviews and software. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, cool stuff, illustrator, keyboard commands, keyboard shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, plugin, productivity, review, shareware, software, tool.

I just picked up a great new plugin for Illustrator, Zoom to Selection (Mac only) from the Adobe Illustrator plugin coder known cryptically as Worker 72a. Zoom to Selection does exactly as it’s name implies – allows one to zoom (maginify) in and out of an Illustrator document using the currently selected object as the centering point of the zoom.

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Wacom Tablet: Scroll Click

Published on April 15, 2007 in productivity, reviews, software and updates. 2 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, cartoon, cartooning, gadget, gadgets, graphics tablet, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, review, software, tool, Wacom.

Wacom has just updated their graphics tablet driver software for Macintosh and the release notes PDF tells us that a new feature has been introduced, “Scroll Click” (my nickname for it). This is an awesome new feature that allows the user to set a pen button to the “scroll click”, and then when pressing that button, you can drag the pen on the tablet to activate scrolling. In addition to this being very cool, it’s a feature that I suggested to the tech & PR departments a few weeks ago, I can’t help but assume this was implemented due to that request. I was initially given a not-so-encouraging response, basically because the Intuos line of tablets has the Touch Strips srcoll/zoom hardware touch-sensitive areas. Of course, their other tablets do not have these.

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Wacom Intuos3 Graphics Tablet Review for Cartoonists & Illustrators

Published on April 6, 2007 in Illustration, cartooning, productivity, reviews and tools. 15 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, artist, cartoon, cartooning, Creative Suite, CS3, design, drawing, gadget, gadgets, graphic design, graphics tablet, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, Photoshop, productivity, review, software, tip, tool, vector, Wacom.

I have been holding off on writing up a review of the Wacom Intuos3 graphics tablet until I had a chance to work with them for some time and really get a feel for real-world usage, particularly for cartoonists & illustrators. Oddly enough I had a hard time finding an in-depth review specifically geared towards artists that draw. There were some big questions that needed to be answered, most importantly that of how the Wacom tablets worked with Adobe Illustrator. Continue reading 'Wacom Intuos3 Graphics Tablet Review for Cartoonists & Illustrators'

Pantone Huey Monitor Calibration Tool

Published on September 8, 2006 in Apple/OS X, Illustration, reviews, software and tools. 4 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, calibration, CMYK, color, color theory, CRT, design, gadget, gadgets, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, LCD, Mac, Mac OS X, monitor, OS X, Pantone, Photoshop, printing, productivity, resources, review, software, tool.

I recently purchased one of these Pantone Huey monitor calibration gizmos to enhance my on-screen ability to proof colors for accuracy when printing. In short, it’s awesome and worth every penny. Read on for more… Continue reading 'Pantone Huey Monitor Calibration Tool'