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Review: Autodesk SketchBook Designer 2013

July 27, 2012 by Erik Vlietinck

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Combine the basic brush and pencil sketch capabilities of Painter with the vector brush of Illustrator and you more or less understand what it is you can do with SketchBook Designer 2013. SketchBook Designer 2013 is a hybrid illustration program. It’s designed to support sketching, and is actually two programs in one; with SketchBook Designer 2013 also comes a copy of SketchBook Pro!

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Review: the Adobe Illustrator SubScribe plug-in

May 20, 2012 by Erik Vlietinck

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Astute Graphics’ SubScribe Designer is a plugin for Adobe Illustrator CS3 to CS5.1 for both Mac OS X and Windows. It adds important common features such as drawing tangents from curves, straightening path segments and orientating (correcting the angle) or artwork.

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DrawScribe enables natural drawing in Adobe Illustrator

February 23, 2012 by Erik Vlietinck

Adobe Illustrator — and at the time, Freehand — is a vector drawing application. This means two things: you can create art and output it at any resolution without any loss of quality while upscaling does not introduce “jaggies”. The second thing you “can” do is draw the way the vendor wants you to — [...]

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Rhino Camera Gear announces Battery Holster

Rhino Camera Gear launches another Kickstarter campaign: Battery Holsters. To have batteries easily and immediately accessible when you need them most, RCG created a hard shell holster that holds two Canon LP-E6 batteries. An integrated belt clip allows you to attach it on to your pants, backpacks, and camera straps.

Battery Holsters will be compatible with Black Rapid straps. The belt clip on a Battery Holster is wide enough to attach to all of their straps securely. Equipped with a 1/4-20 brass insert in the rear of the belt clip, you can attach the optional Black Rapid carabiner and clip it on to virtually anything. Battery Holsters will work with any camera that takes a LP-E6 battery. These include the Canon 5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 7D, 6D, & 60D. Depending on the funding success, other camera batteries will be added.

Typinator 5.5 gets calculation fields

Typinator 5.5 is a new version of Ergonis‘ popular text expander. With the new concept of calculation fields, Typinator offers amazingly powerful text expansions for regular users without any programming skills.

The new calculation fields allow computations and assignments of computed values to variables. Until now, this could have been achieved with external scripts, but with the new feature, calculations can be embedded right into expansions. This opens the door to unbelievably versatile and flexible expansions without the need for any programming skills.

“Calculation fields are a rather simple concept, but the possibilities are virtually endless. In combination with input fields, you can use Typinator to write a complete bill with just a few keystrokes, with discounts, taxes, etc.,” said Guenther Blaschek, CTO of Ergonis Software. “Combined with some scripts – such as the Convert script from our Download Extras page – you can even include the amount in other currencies, based on the current exchange rate.”

In addition to the new calculation fields, Typinator 5.5 includes many other enhancements like improved matching for certain abbreviations with similar endings and better support for time zones. Another benefit of the new release is improved compatibility with OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and many third-party applications like Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, OmniWeb, Thunderbird, Mail, Pages, Scrivener, Sibelius, Nisus Writer, and others.