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Imaging/Design Industry News:
• Electric Rain Releases Swift 3D 3.0 for Mac OS X
Free updates available for Mac OS 9 users
• Digital Anarchy Ships Texture Anarchy
Photoshop plugins designed for procedural and texture effects
• Agfa Boosts Offerings at Fonts.com
Three foundries and 300 new packages added
• Curious Labs Ships Poser 5 for Mac OS X
Software adds cloth simulation, hair and face setup rooms
• Fujifilm Adds Mac OS X Support for FinePix S2 Pro
High-end digital camera also gets price drop to $2,295
• Adobe Releases Font Folio OpenType Edition
Typeface collection includes more than 2,000 fonts
• Pentax Unveils 6.1 Megapixel Digital SLR
*ist D supports Pentax interchangeable lenses
• WiebeTech Ships FireWire 800 Pocket Drives
MicroGB800 offers dual FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections
• Bauhaus Reveals Mirage 1.0
Software suite offers motion graphics, compositing, effects and paint
• NEC Ships 19-Inch LCD
Display offers 1,280 x 1,024 resolution for $750
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25 brushes for cloud and vapor trail effects
A couple weeks ago I wrote up a tutorial on creating cloud effects using nothing but the filters built into Adobe Photoshop. But there's a better, more customizable way to produce not only cloud effects, but also other vaporous matter, such as jet trails and smoke plumes. Can you guess which way I'm referring to? That's right: custom brushes that use the color and scattering features of Photoshop 7's Paint Engine. And so I've created a bunch of these brushes, compiled into a free collection I like to call "Nagel Series 11 Photoshop Brushes." Read on for download and installation instructions.
Recording brush strokes as movies while you paint
So you think you're pretty fancy, sitting there with your motion graphics package, playing with vectors and making paint-on effects that wiggle on the screen, eh? Well, maybe you are. I'm not here to dispute that. But I am here to show you another way to do it with an infinitely more "painterly" feel using that most painterly of applications, Synthetik Studio Artist 2.0, and that most painterly of instruments, your wrist.
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Contribute was released last year by Macromedia and now it's in the second incarnation. This time around there are versions for both the Mac as well as the PC. Now a MacHead like me can create a site and collaborate with clients or other web team members on their PC's anywhere at any time. Here's how Contribute works in a nutshell.
Creating wraps for placed bitmap and EPS graphics
Here's a question that comes up every now and again: How do you make text wrap around an object in Adobe Illustrator? Better yet, how do you get text to wrap around placed bitmap or EPS graphics within Illustrator? It just doesn't seem possible, right? Right. But here's a simple workaround.
Part 1: Standard vector painting
Adobe After Effects 6.0 has some great new paint features. If you're familiar with its old Vector Paint plugin, you'll definitely love the new options that the After Effects team incorporated with the Photoshop paint engine. And if you weren't a fan of the old paint and its interface oddities, you'll have good reason to take a look at paint again under the new version. With this in mind, this week we kick off a new series exploring the painting features in After Effects 6.0.
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