Browse tag: illustration

Browse tag: illustration

Review: SketchBook Mobile for iPhone
Autodesk's app is one of the better painting and drawing apps on the iPhone. It's the rare app that appeals to both novices and professionals.
Cartoon you: Illustrator’s Live Trace converts your photo into a drawing
Illustrator's Live Trace feature is the subject of our fourth article on how to create your own avatar portrait for social networking Web sites and instant messengers.
Cartoon you: Your portrait in Illustrator
Use Illustrator's Pen tool to whip up a quick avatar self-portrait for social networking web sites and chat clients.
Review: Layers for iPhone
With its support for multiple layers and the ability to export PSD files, Layers is an excellent app.
Review: Colors for iPhone
A vibrant online community of artists is the greatest strength of this painting app. Unfortunately, Colors' clunky, frustrating behavior keeps it from being an enjoyable app to use.
Review: Brushes for iPhone
You'll be impressed with what you can do with Brushes, a $5 mobile studio in your pocket that lets you sketch or paint anywhere, anytime. The app sports a number of impressive features wrapped up in a really simple and efficient interface.
Sumo Paint: Photoshop-like Web-based image editor
For image editing, Sumo Paint offers many Photoshop standbys. And best of all, this Web-based application is free.
Mac News Briefs: Daz 3D releases enhanced version of animation program
In addition to releasing a free version of Daz Studio 3, the developer rolled out Daz Studio 3 Advanced, which targets 3-D animators, designers, and illustrators with professional level tools.
Mac News Briefs: Pointer loop offers in-air control of Macs
The in-air mouse from Hillcrest Labs is targeted at users who connect their Mac or PC to a television set. Also, Shion home-automation software and the MAPublisher plug-in suite for Illustrator saw updates Monday.
New Yorker cover drawn entirely on an iPhone
Artist Jorge Colombo used the iPhone app Brushes to create this week's New Yorker magazine cover.
ConceptDraw Pro 8 adds NetDiagrammer plug-in
NetDiagrammer is a new network topology planning tool designed as a plug-in for ConceptDraw Pro 8.
Review: Scribble for iPhone
This gem of an app gives you a blank canvas for doodling with the help with a slimmed-down set of tools. Or, if you prefer, you can copy over images from your photo library and modify them with Scribble’s tools.
Review: EazyDraw 3.0
EazyDraw 3.0 gives non-professionals a painless way to create illustrations, logos, floor plans, technical diagrams, flowcharts, maps, and Web graphics that can be copied and pasted into other applications.
Pumped about Painter
Earlier this week, Corel released a new version of Painter and Jackie Dove couldn’t be more excited.
Corel Painter 11 unveiled
Corel unveiled Painter 11 on Tuesday, adding new brushes and other enhancements.
DesignProVideo releases Flash, Illustrator tutorials
DesignProVideo released new video tutorials for creative professionals. Flash and Illustrator tutorials are available for download.
Expo for Creative Professionals
With a new iPhoto on the way, plus all the graphic art hardware and software products on display at Macworld Expo, we bring in a trio of creative pros to discuss this week’s developments.
Review: XMind 2008 Pro
Mind mapping aims to prevent those cranial logjams through a process that gets the ideas out quickly, without needless organizational burdens. XMind 2008 Pro (version 2.3) stays true to the mind mapping ideals, though Macintosh standards are the occasional victim.
Review: Illustrator CS4
Adobe Illustrator CS4 is a time-proven production drawing tool with a clean, efficient interface, and well- thought-out tools that work seamlessly with the rest of the Adobe creative suite. The addition of multi-page capabilities and Blob Brushes make it must-have upgrade.
Review: OmniGraffle Pro 5.0.2
Fundamentally, OmniGraffle is a vector drawing tool that draws objects and lines to connect them. Organization charts, flow charts, network diagrams, and mind maps are among the most obvious tasks OmniGraffle is designed for.
Brushing up your Creative Suite skills
With Adobe’s new Creative Suite 4 now available for download, James Dempsey assembles a list of some of his favorite sites for tutorials, tips, and news for the applications that make up the Design Premium suite.
Adobe’s CS4 message
Jonathan Seff attended Adobe’s launch event for the massive Creative Suite 4 upgrade to get the company’s takeaway message for what to expect in the latest updates to its creative pro products. And you can watch that same event on the Web to decide for yourself.
First Look: Illustrator CS4
Twenty-two years after Illustrator’s first version, you might think that there’s little left to add to this venerable illustration tool. But Ben Long finds plenty of changes in Illustrator CS4, from a revamped interface to new gradient tools.
New CS4 video tutorial Web site launches
A new Web site is offering video tutorials to help users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 get the most out of the applications.
Adobe brings multiple artboards to Illustrator
Illustrator CS4’s multiple artboard feature lets users have work areas of varying sizes, all within the same document. It’s one of the many enhancements to Adobe’s drawing tool.
Adobe unveils CS4 suite
Adobe announced updates to its suite of high-end applications for print, Web, and video pros. Creative Suite 4 will feature 13 products and 14 integrated technologies when it ships in October.
ViaCAD 2D/3D V6 released
ViaCAD 2D/3D version 6 sports more than 150 improvements and dozens of new features.
Intaglio drawing app adds new tools
Intaglio, the drawing app for Mac OS X, has gotten a slew of new features in its 3.0 release including an improved drag and drop library.
Scribbles 1.2.1
Sometimes you just need make a little art without the complications of Illustrator or the mess of Crayolas. Atebites’ Scribbles1.2.1 allows both kids and adults to do just that.
Plopp 1.2.5
Impara’s Plopp is a drawing tool for kids that not only makes 3-D easy, but it makes it fun, too.