Web/Mobile

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.

Two Flash Apps for the Price of One

Buy Flash'In'App and get Flash Optimizer for free. Flash'In'App is a Cocoa framework for managing Adobe Flash movies in any application on Mac OS X. Flash Optimizer compresses SWF files up to 60-70%. Both are Mac-only.

Gridiron Flow Now Supports QuarkExpress 8

The Flow 1.0.2 update supports QuarkExpress 8 and Final Cut Studio 3.

Flash Design with QuarkXPress 8

A free 45-minute webinar introduces QuarkXPress users to the interactive capabilities of their software.

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!

Safari Books Online Enhances On-Demand Digital Library’s Functionality & Usability

Safari Books Online 6.0 delivers interactive reading experience, networking with peers and experts, and better organization of content by user preference.

Graphics Gone Green

"Graphics Gone Green" is for creative professionals interested in building sustainable workflows from concept to output. The ebook shows how to reduce your carbon footprint at work while running a profitable business.

20 Design Students Get $20,000

In 1989, Strata was started by two students. Now the company looks to help other students get started.

Free For All: An Awesome Assortment

Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!

Quark and Microsoft Announce Integrated Editorial Solution

Designed for editors, resource managers, graphic designers, and layout designers in collaborative workflows, the solution combines easy XML authoring, professional design, and dynamic publishing from Quark with the collaboration and unified communications platform of the Microsoft Office System, including SharePoint Server.

Photoshop.com Now an iPhone App

While no replacement for Photoshop the full-blown application, Photoshop.com Mobile brings basic photo tools and effects to iPhone and iPod touch users. And it's free!

Pull Images from the Web & Combine Them Automatically

This amazing new technology, known as PhotoSketch, may be a ways from its final form, but it's worth noting even now.

Adobe Unveils First Full Flash Player for PCs and Mobile Devices (Except the iPhone)

Almost 50 Open Screen Project participants support new browser runtime for multiple platforms.

Develop iPhone Apps in Flash CS5

Using the upcoming Flash Professional CS5, you'll be able to build Flash files that can be exported to run as native iPhone code on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Those same Flash files can also be exported to run on the more traditional Flash Player and Adobe AIR platforms.

Gluon Updates LiveEdit

LiveEdit, a Flash-based web application, closes the gap between desktop and webtop publishing.

Free For All: Textures

This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.

Combine Illustrator Patterns with Photoshop Masks for Instant Visual Appeal

With this technique, you can create eye-catching imagery without fancy plug-ins or big stock photo budgets.

BannerZest 2 Promises Hassle-Free Web Animation

Aquafadas has released the Mac-only BannerZest 2.0 software. Updates include the ability to add a sound file and publish a banner as a single .swf file.

MetaCommunications Releases Workgroups 2010

The new Workgroups 2010 software suite introduces a powerful Document Organizer, a simple browser based proofing tool, an integrated Developer Center website and hundreds of new features and improvements

SketchBook Mobile Now on the App Store

Autodesk's $2.99 mobile design app delivers sophisticated drawing and sketching tools for the iPhone and iPod touch.