Published on
January 15, 2009 in
software and tips.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, backup, Creative Suite, how-to, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, PC, productivity, tips, troubleshooting, tutorial, Windows, Windows XP, workflow.
It’s happened to all of us digital creatives. The dreaded day when you just cannot get one of your Adobe applications to launch. Usually there’s a deadline looming (of course). You’ve restarted your computer (three times) and still you cannot get Photoshop to launch. You’ve tried a few tips from some Google searches, but still nothing. Your geek cred is showing it’s limitations. And your deadline isn’t getting any further away.
What if I told you this could be avoided, virtually forever? And also, that you can get back to work with all your settings just the way you like them?
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I didn’t know about this – and don’t ever plan to switch to Windows – but I thought it might be worth passing on the info that you can indeed switch from Windows to Mac (or Mac to Windows if that’s your desire) and take your Adobe software right along with you without paying for another software license.
Supposedly there is a misonception (and one that I had as well) that once you bought a license for either Mac or Windows, you had to buy another brand new license for the new platform you switched to.
Not so, and really it seems to make the most sense on Adobe’s part. If you paid for the software and switched, most likely if you contact Adobe about this you’re not trying to swindle them – if that was your intention, there’s plenty of options out there for those who don’t feel they have to pay for the software they use.
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Published on
September 11, 2007 in
software and updates.
Tags: Apple, drivers, gadget, gadgets, graphics tablet, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, software, tool, Wacom, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
Graphics tablet manufacturer Wacom has just released graphics tablet driver Mac OS X software update 6.05-2 for the Intuos, Cintique and Graphire products lines. The new feature included is support for the as-yet unreleased Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, due out in October, as well as other unlisted bug fixes.
Windows driver 6.05-7 update is available for Windows Vista, XP & 2000.
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Published on
August 24, 2007 in
art, productivity, software and tools.
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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