Autodesk is raising software prices by switching from perpetual to annual and/or monthly subscription fees similar to Adobe’s pricing for most of its products. After Jan 31, 2016 only a fraction of Autodesk apps will be available for perpetual usage after purchase. Like Adobe, Autodesk is saying this will improve service to customers for 4 […]
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The world of design is full of double entendres. A sense of humor with more than a touch of empathy which allows a designer to draw out the core elements of a story with a dash of panache. It helps catch the mind behind the eye. But is this design sense teachable? The people at the mostly free Canva.com
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Over on my sister publications, PixofToronto.com and PicsofCanada.com I am doing a story about graffiti mural artists in Toronto. One analysis is to see if there is a color motif or fingerprint for the various artists and their works. For example, here is the Marina Wall graffiti found down in the Queen and Spadina and
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Two significant trends have emerged in website design during the past year that influence better web space usage: The size of individual webpages grew rapidly. The average size of a webpage increased from 1.28 MB at year-end 2012 to 1.9 MB at year-end 2015. That’s a big jump, especially when you consider that in 2010, the
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After 6 months, there are 5 new background splash images being used at ThePhotoFinishes.com. The idea is to highlight some of the new plugins we have reviewed here recently. Here are the 5 new images: This rainbow image uses Fractalius plugin in the foreground and no plugin on rainbow portion.. This Naked Elm Lake image
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As we have pointed out in another review, Redfield is a plugin vendor that one should pay attention to. On the plus side Redfield has a number of free plugins that are quite good and some excellent ones at competitive costs. On the downside, none of the Redfield plugins run natively on Mac machines. Redfield Fractalius
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There are three Photoshop Plugin vendors this photofinisher pays attention to: Flaming Pear, Mehdi, and Redfield. Each delivers innovative plugins at scintillating prices. Yet despite their creative plugins there is little overlap. Even better, all three have some great freeware plugins. It is a newly discovered Redfield freeware plugin, Fine Touch, which is worth bringing to
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Painting photos has come of age. It got its push with mobile phone photo apps like Instagram, PicMonkey, and Pixlr with their huge set of effects have made painting photos a popular pastime among smartphone users. And as a result, one can see both on online sites like Google Plus and Facebook as well as
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