Graphics News

MacOS X for Creative Professionals

As announced in a MacCentral article, author John Holland has penned or rather PDF’d a new book aimed at helping graphic designers, artists, producers and creative managers make the transition to MacOS X.

But wait, there’s more!
Contents include:

  • System basics, the new Desktop & Finder, Unix basics
  • Installation strategy
  • Upgrading critical software from Adobe, Quark, Macromedia, and others.
  • Software & hardware compatibility
  • Fonts and font management
  • Networking, filesharing, and security
  • Printing and digital output
  • Convenient PDF format, for printing, searching, and links to many Internet resources

How much would you expect to pay for such a handy electronic resource?! If you order today it won’t cost you $60 or even $50 but an amazing $39.99!!! This special introductory price will no longer be available once the product actually releases later this month so pre-order today!!!
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Knowledge Database updates at Adobe.com

Here’s the list of technical documents added to Adobe’s online knowledge database in January:

Adobe InDesign
Troubleshooting System Errors or Freezes in InDesign 2.0 for Mac OS X (#326415)
Troubleshooting System Errors or Freezes in InDesign 2.0 for Mac OS 9.1 and 9.2 (#326413)
Specifying Page Ranges When Printing or Exporting InDesign 2.0 Documents (#326425)
InDesign 2.0 Import and Export Formats (#326429)
ReadMe First! File Is Missing from the InDesign 2.0 CD (#324041)

Adobe Illustrator
Save for Web Dialog Box Doesn’t Display Original, Optimized, 2-Up, or 4-Up Tabs in Illustrator 10 for Mac OS X (#326597)

Adobe Photoshop
Unexpected Line or Dots in Photoshop 6.0.x Images Stored on a Network Drive from Mac OS (#323489)
Error “Unable to continue…hardware or system error…” When Starting Photoshop 6.x (#326528)

Adobe PageMaker
Update: Euro Character Printing and Exporting to Adobe PDF Issue

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Auto FX releases Photo/Graphic Edges 5.0

According to the web site, “Photo/Graphic Edges 5.0 is a unique creative tool that makes your photos distinctive and artistic with the click of a button. PGE 5 adds torn, ripped, deckled, feathered, painted, film frames and darkroom styled edges to any grayscale or color image.

“The newly released Photo/Graphic Edges 5.0 version now features 4 visual effect modules in the same package: Edges, Montage, Vignette and Frames. The creative possibilities are infinite!

“Each effect in Photo/Graphic Edges lets you have complete control over every aspect of the design work. Interactive onscreen tools let you freely transform your effect and edges, apply surface grain, lighting, shading, matte or colored backgrounds and more!”

According to the ratings on VersionTracker, it sucks.

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