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Design An Uncertain Future Clouds Affinity’s Day

After being acquired by Canva in March of 2024, Affinity’s future was the hot topic of discussion in design circles. Would Canva stay hands-off and allow Affinity to be Affinity? Would they lose their one-time purchase pricing and turn to subscription? Would Canva destroy all the goodwill that Affinity had worked tirelessly to earn?

When Affinity took down their online store and announced they would be showing the future of their design software, we assumed we woul...

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Design Beginning Podcasting Over the past year and a half, I have become a big fan of podcasts. Mostly because I drive at least an hour and a half everyday. I found that I could not only entertain myself, but I could actually learn new things during my morning and evening commute. I have come to listen to many shows by TWiT (Leo Laporte and friends), ATP (Siracusa, Arment, Liss), Rene Ritchie and the iMore crew, John Gruber and the like. I know I don’t have a lot of diversity in my mainstays , but I do...

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Design Pixelmator Image Editor Tutorials

If you are a Mac user then you have probably heard of Pixelmator. For those who haven’t, it’s a very capable image editor that compares well to Photoshop. Best of all, since it’s a Mac exclusive the app focuses on taking advantage of as many OS X technologies as possible.

Pixelmator 3.3 ScreenshotWith that being said, it’s a fantastic program and an amazing value. It’s also a little bit different than Photoshop. To help get you up to speed here is a link to some tu...

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Design Creating Superhero Text in Adobe Illustrator [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J9FnJDeAVA[/youtube] Here’s a cool tutorial on how to create some cool “Superhero” style text effects in Adobe Illustrator. With all the hype about superhero movies these days, this trick could be very useful for your projects. Enjoy! Read Full Story
Design Creating iBooks (ePub) with InDesign CS5

With the growing popularity of eBooks, today we’re presenting a link on how to create an iBook for the iPad using InDesign CS5. Going direct to consumers with eBooks is a great way to publish your work without the cost and need to get a publishing deal. In a future post we’ll look at getting your eBooks on the Google Play store.

Link – Creating iBooks (ePubs) for the iPad

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