Software Review – Corel Painter 12

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Corel Painter 12 is the latest release of Corel’s advanced digital art studio software. By providing the drawing and painting technology, Painter 12 allows artists to pursue their creative endeavors in totally new and inspiring ways. Now with the introduction Real Watercolor, Real Wet Oil brushes as well as other new […]

Image Creation 6/1/2011

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Cat with Mouse by Andy Runyon

Created with CINEMA 4D and Photoshop

ConceptDraw PROJECT v6 Gains Ability to Import MINDJET® MindManager® Mind Map Files from Mac or PC

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SAN JOSE, Calif., May 31, 2011 — CS Odessa announces that ConceptDraw PROJECT v6 has gained the capability to import Mindjet MindManager files. Now MindManager users will have access to the extensive project management capabilities of ConceptDraw PROJECT. ConceptDraw PROJECT can import MindManager files that have built with either the Mac- or […]

What’s new in Corel® Painter™ 12

This two minute overview will provide key highlights of what is in Corel® Painter™ 12.

Corel Painter 12 is available for pre-order at an educational discount price of $99.95.

Google SketchUp at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011

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Google SketchUp recycled shipping container booth.

The SKPR Bot Scavenger Hunt.

Google SketchUp 8 is free.

Google SketchUp Pro 8 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Google SketchUp Pro 8 is free for instructors.

Google SketchUp Pro 8 Lab […]

New Mac Defender Variant, MacGuard, Doesn’t Require Password for Installation

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Description: On May 2, 2011, Intego discovered the MAC Defender fake antivirus, which targets Mac users via SEO poisoning attacks (web sites set up to take advantage of search engine optimization tricks to get malicious sites to appear at the top of search results). Since then, several […]

Photoshop Makes Something out of Nothing

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The new tool is called content aware fill. What it does is to allow you to remove an unwanted element from a photo and to automatically fill the spot with a background that matches the rest of the photo.

The surprise, though, is that the program is not just capable of […]

Turner Construction Company Deploys Google SketchUp Pro

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NEW YORK – Turner Construction Company has announced the deployment of SketchUp Pro™, Google’s premium 3-Dimensional model authoring tool and platform. Turner is using SketchUp Pro™ as a part of its standard “digital toolbox” to provide Building Information Modeling (BIM) related services on projects across the United States and around […]

Optimizing a FileMaker database for iPad or iPhone

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The three visual items that are different between Mac, Windows, iPad, and iPhone are the available pixels on the screen, the status toolbar height, and click accuracy. Combined, these work together to determine how well the solution integrates with a human. In a desktop app, you can pack in a very large […]

Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium Feature Tour

Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium Student & Teacher Edition is available for $448.95 Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium Education/Non-profit Edition is available for $598.95