March 1st, 2009
Like many of the best Mac tools, Billings looks easy but has a considerable amount of power and detail behind it. Every step of adding clients, adding jobs to clients, adding tasks to jobs and then tracking them can be done with a single click and a bit of text.
March 1st, 2009
Few people — even few designers – know the first step in designing a font is to create a simple vector image (so the size is scalable) for each character in your font set. The process to make it a font from there on is what Fontstruct does behind the scenes.
December 1st, 2005
Taking a leaf out of the Apple marketing manual, Adobe is in full steam ahead mode, barely letting us catch our breath over one sweeping upgrade before they roll out the next.
March 1st, 2009
If you have a detailed motion scene but not enough time to texture every surface, Projection Man opens the scene in Photoshop where you paint your texture on a single frame. The system then renders the texture you painted on the whole scene, changing perspective and object size as the camera moves.
March 1st, 2009
The biggest group of changes address the continuing trend towards dynamic page behaviour, which Adobe says most of their customers were adopting. Until now Dreamweaver was behind the times, unable to display real-time behaviours like rollovers — you’d have to preview the result in a browser and hunt through the source code to find your error.
April 1st, 2004
Quark charged a fortune, had shocking technical support, constantly ignored cries for desperately needed improvements and rolled in money behind the protective curtain of 90% ownership of the page layout market.