Illustration News

Create Better Drawings & Paintings from Photos with AKVIS Sketch 10

Version 10 includes 64-bit support, a new hatch direction control, and compatibility with Windows 7 and Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).

Logo for Maker of Little Blue Pill Gets a Makeover

Pfizer, maker of Viagra and Lipitor, among many other pharmaceuticals, recently underwent a brand freshening. What do you think of the change?

Add Language Support to InDesign & Illustrator CS4

WinSoft's ScribeDOOR adds new complex script capabilities to InDesign and Illustrator. Languages include Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi, as well as many Indic and South-East Asian languages

Logo Inspiration

Browse these 25 collections of logos when you're looking for ideas.

Affordable Webinar on Cut-Paper Art

"Running with Scissors: Cut paper in contemporary art and design" costs just $39. It takes place Monday, October 26, at 4pm ET.

History of the CBS Eye Logo

If you're interested in logo design, you'll like this video clip from Charles Osgood on the venerable CBS eye, now more than 50 years old.

Free FreeHand!

The FreeFreeHand Organization seeks to secure a future for the vector-based drawing application.

Mac Vector-Drawing Application Updated

Bohemian Coding announced DrawIt 3.10, the latest version of their easy-to-use, powerful vector-drawing application for Mac OS X. The update includes new effects and significantly increases its performance.

Worldwide Logo Design Annual Now Accepting Submissions

WOLDA, the worldwide logo design annual, will accept submissions until January 31, 2010.

Get a Sneak Peek at New Photoshop Technologies

Watch the video to see realistic paint and brushes and warp tools worthy of the most limber acrobats.

Zevrix Updates ArtOptimizer for Illustrator

The Mac-only ArtOptimizer 2.3 is a workflow automation app for Adobe Illustrator. The new version introduces compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

New Wacom Tablets Have Multi-Touch and Pen Input

The company says that Bamboo second generation tablets are the first interactive tablets to combine multi-touch and pen input. They will be available October 3, 2009.

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.

New Typographical and Illustrative Treasures from House Industries

House Industries introduces 27 hand-printed serigraphs, photo-lettering alphabet blocks, four new tees, and a new one-liner catalog.

Better Output Automation for Packaging

MadeToPrint Illustrator Auto, from axaio software, streamlines output automation for packaging.

ArtWork Updates to 3.0

Digital painting software ArtWork, from AKVIS Software, adds a new painting style in version 3.0: Pen & Ink. Also new to version 3.0 is the ability to convert photos into oil paintings and comics. The new interface and the possibility to import/export presets will make your work even more comfortable.

Create Drawings and Watercolors from Photos

AKVIS Sketch 9.0 for Windows and Macintosh converts photos to color and B&W pencil drawings and watercolor paintings. Version 9.0 has a new improved algorithm for photo-to-sketch conversion, adds a new parameter field for edge definition, adds the possibility to manipulate the saturation of color pencil drawings and much more.

Color Tool Gets Major Update

Want a quick preview of what a color palette would look like on a Web site? Try this online app, which is free and doesn't require registration.

Time -- and Adobe -- March On

Adobe won't guarantee that Creative Suite 3 will play well with Apple's imminent OS update (Mac OS X 10.6, code-named Snow Leopard).

Mapdiva Launches Ortelius Map Illustration Software

Ortelius is a vector-based drawing and cartographic design program made especially for map design and presentation. Through its drag-and-drop interface, Ortelius offers a creative solution for floor plans, landscape plans, scaled drawings, and a wide variety of high quality custom maps, as well as serves to address a lack of mapmaking software for the Mac OS X platform.