Mac is an abbreviation for the MacOS, which is an operating system platform developed by Apple, Inc.
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Are Macs preferable to PCs for handling graphics software?
Excuse me for being totally uninformed, but it usually seems like creative types of people i.e. graphics designers prefer Macs over PCs for accomplishing their tasks. I was wondering, why is this? Is ...
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Lower-cost alternative to Photoshop
Maybe once a month I need Photoshop. Since it is rare, the cost seems like a disproportionate amount of money to spend by my startup.
I think the tasks I need to achieve when I'm converting a ...
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Fully Importing A Saved Colour Palette In Illustrator?
Is there any way to fully import a saved colour palette into Illustrator? I once saved a colour palette from one project and wanted to import the colours for use in another project, but I found that ...
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Is Optima Roman or Optima Medium the Optima.ttc found in Mac OS X?
I'm currently working with a relatively small event run by volunteers and we want to be consistent across our publications. Currently we use Optima for the body text in our publications, but it's ...
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Right color balance MAC vs Windows
I've designed a web page on a Mac computer. When testing it on windows in appears with something like 20% less saturation. The page is public, for the web, so the final user may have any kind of ...
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CS5 export layers as files no number sequence
I am using cs5 layers to modify and then exporting layers as files. While saving CS5 automatically adds some number sequence at the end thereby modifying my original filename.
It see to ...
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Color differences between Mac and Windows, How to set color profile scheme on Windows to get same colors of Mac?
I'm developer; I use Windows but my designer uses Mac. Whenever he sends a graphic file to me (.psd and .ai files) the colors show differently on Mac and Windows, even if I take the color code from ...
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Lightweight psd viewer with layer support
I'm looking for a lightweight psd viewer that allows me to turn on/off layers.
I currently work at a web-design firm and at some points in the project lifetime we need to compare the resulting ...
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Capture clean Retina screenshot of web page without post production
How can I take a screenshot of a web page on a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (rMBP) that:
Is at a reproducible size
Looks sharp on Retina displays
Without any browser chrome / accouterments ...
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How to Export “only” the illustration in Illustrator cs3
I am using Illustrator CS3 and trying to export my illustration. Problem is, I wanted to only export the illustration, no the background canvas area, how I can achieve that?
Thanks.
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Font conversion from (unknown file type - maybe .pfa) with .afm
I have been given a font that has a .afm file with another file that doesn't actually have a file type. I'm unsure what the file type is meant to be but, on my Mac, when it installs it, it can read ...
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Photoshop: New guide to snap pixels whilst being dragged
When mouse is dragged through a ruler to create a new guide, I want this guide to move pixel by pixel so that when I leave it, it will have snapped to a side of a pixel instead of staying in the ...
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Why is OS X using my 32px@2x icon instead of scaling down the 128px icon?
I'm making a custom folder icon similar to the ones in the Home folder (Pictures, Documents, etc).
To do so, I extracted the images from the .icns of the blank folder icon and photoshopped my own ...
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Mac OSX Lion or Mountain Lion GUI wireframing kit for Illustrator
Is anyone aware of a wireframing kit for Illustrator (or any vector based template) that encompasses GUI elements from Mac OSX Lion or Mountain Lion?
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How to determine what quality a JPG was saved as?
When saving JPG images with Pixelmator or Photoshop, I select a quality from the scale 1–100 that gives optimum file-size.
Later on, I sometimes take these images and crop them a little more (not ...
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How to preview installed fonts?
I'm completely new on a Mac. I would like a pointer as to how to visualize a preview of a given headline in as many fonts as possible from those installed on the system. What I need to accomplish is ...
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Any program to create/edit Adobe Illustrator xml easily?
I've been using Illustrator's Data-Driven Graphics, for one of my projects. But dread using command-line programing to populate all the fields. Is there a GUI app to manage, edit and save Adobe ...
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Illustrator CS4: when I select an object with the Selection tool, and try and move it, it copies it instead.
This is in a file originally created in this version and installation of Illustrator CS4.
I have a simple text item, with one character in it. Alternately, I pick a drawn element, doesn't matter.
I ...
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How to copy a character from Font Book on Max OS X Lion?
I'll like to use a symbol font character (upper right in the image, Glyph 5081). How can I copy the character from the Font Book and paste to another app?
UPDATE: I can find the character at left, ...
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Alternative to Keynote to design great slides?
What software are designers using to create great presentation slides?
E.g.
Adding (configurable) drop shadows on text
Creating custom slide backgrounds, e.g radial gradients
Adding noise or ...
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Computer recommendations for magazine layout?
We have been using Mac Pro computers and are being asked to consider mini or iMacs.
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How do I copy selected paths of a shape in Photoshop CS6 Mac 13.0.1
I was wondering how I copy selected paths of a shape in PS CS6.
I start selecting the paths I want to copy by clicking on them and holding SHIFT.
I then press ALT + SHIFT which will only copy ONE of ...
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What to do with these errors when I open a PSD file in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) while PSD is made by Photoshop (Mac OSX)
I'm a Web Designer and when I open some PSD files in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) I get these messages pop-up before to open PSD. My fellow designer use Photoshop on Mac OSX.
Error 1
Some text ...
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Screen calibration | Screen looks like it dipped in toxic waste!
I have always used my Samsung Sync master 2493HM with a DVI connecter on my MBP, but now i switch to a mini displayport to HDMI and the colors are way off, it looks like there dipped in toxic waste!
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Photoshop doesn't save composite previews
First: I have Photoshop CS3 running on Mac OS 10.7.2. (This also occurred in 10.6.8.)
In Photoshop preferences, I have every preview-saving option enables in File Handling, yet Quick Looking a file ...
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How do I make a good OS X Icon from an existing png
I have this image:
that I would like to make into a nice OS X icon. One that would go in the safaritoolbar or on an iphone. Problem is that they don't use PNG they only look at the shaded parts, so ...
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Best application for developing pixel art? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Photoshop Alternatives for G5 Macs
I would like to create pixel art graphics for an iPhone game on my mac and I'm wondering what are some good programs i should look in ...
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Photoshop CS4 - what does a small circled 'x' mean next to a cursor?
In a new layer in a CS4 Photoshop document (Mac), my shape tool cursor has a small circle with an 'x' in it - to the bottom-right of the crosshair. What does this mean? If I try to draw a rectangle, ...
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Temporary keyboard shortcuts stopped working- illustrator/photoshop CS5 (mac)
I use temporary keyboard shortcuts for navigating my work area...
e.g.:
Hold down spacebar to get hand tool
Hold down space+cmd/space+cmd+option to get zoom in/out tool
All of a sudden these no ...
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Font management tools for Mac
It's been a few years since I've visited this topic, one which has been one of Apples biggest issues since OS9.
Font management. I have been using Font Explorer however I've never been very impressed ...
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Mac illustrator shortcuts
Hi i just swapped from a pc to a mac and feel a bit lost cause I cant find many of the shortcuts i was getting used to.
-I can't scale an object uniform just by clicking on its bounding box and ...
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Adobe Illustrator 5: When I move an object right it moves up?
I have Adobe Illustrator 5 on Mac. Everything was normal before but now some document level transformation settings have changed.
Arrow keys don't work as they should. When I move selected object ...
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Adobe Illustrator CS6 (not responding) [closed]
As soon as i open a document in Illustrator CS6 or start a new document i get the famous spinning ball of death and the only thing i can do is force quite illustrator.
I have tried restarting my ...
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Adobe InDesign 6 not printing booklets to edges of paper, InDesign 5.5 did
I printed booklets for my students in InDesign 5.5. Worked perfect, on US Letter paper I was able to get 2 worksheets per side. I'd cut them down the middle and have these great packets of ...
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Ibooks author customize template: change section's title color
I'm trying to build an Ibook with Ibooks author on my mac customizing the "Contemporary" template.
The point is When I switch the view mode from landscape to portrait The section title color is ...
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Does Aperture have any functionality over Lightroom? [closed]
Couple days back, I've migrated from Windows to OS X and now I'm considering all the Mac alternative software that wasn't previously available.
For quite some time I've been using Lightroom 2 to ...
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How does Flash Builder work with iOS? [closed]
Here is a press release from Adobe:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110410005101/en/Adobe-Flash-Builder-4.5-Flex-4.5-Accelerate
In short, it mentions that the upcoming version of Flash ...
