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This tightening of the screws on computer users is happening in a seriously bad economic environment. Diesel prices have been falling but prices at the grocery store are still rising regardless of it. Credit card debt is setting new records. Housing costs, broadly speaking, are insane. This is...

I hope the guy doesn't get sued. Just recently I watched a little YouTube feature about Stuart Semple's Pinkest Pink powered paint -the pink is beyond the limits of what any video format or computer monitor can display. It also had a bit of coverage for Semple's BLK 3.0 paint, which claims to be...

$15 per month, or $180 per year, just for digital versions of Pantone color books is a rip-off. These digital spot color libraries are pretty much worthless without a physical Pantone Color Formula Guide swatch book on hand. Those cost upwards of $200 on their own -just for two swatch books of...

Here's one solution that works without having to buy a $180 per year subscription to Pantone Connect: Install the previous version of Illustrator. Open up the Creative Cloud Desktop app, bring up the All Apps tab, at the Adobe Illustrator listing click on the three dots icon next to the "open"...

Adobe Illustrator has a very good tool set. Another nice thing about Illustrator is all the 3rd party plug-ins available. A few are free. Others have to be purchased. Astute Graphics has a pretty incredible collection of Illustrator plug-ins. The company continues to improve and add to that...

Chaney? That's Serpentine, with quite a lot of horizontal stretching.

It looks like a knock-off version of ITC Eras.

Horseshoe Falls is the more impressive of the two waterfalls. It can be viewed on either side (on Goat Island on the US side or across the Niagara River). I think the view of Horseshoe Falls is better on the Canadian side. The observation points get you fairly close to the edge. It's incredible...

Here's a better example (attached) of the art brush trick at work. Standard text on path effects just wouldn't work properly on this volunteer fire dept logo. The same goes for standard envelope effects. Using a variable version of TT Supermolot allowed me to adjust the width axis of the...

Envelope effects work okay in Illustrator. But I think Art Brushes work better in plenty of cases. In the attached sample image I turned a piece of text into an art brush and applied that brush to a path. The Width Tool in Illustrator can vary the stroke thickness. They're live effects and can...

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A lot of newer and bigger coin-op video game cabinets are pretty elaborate. They seem to have a vibe similar to modern slot machines and other casino gaming cabinets. I still prefer the classic coin-op games from the early 1980's. Their designs were more iconic in nature. Old cabinets like...

In certain cases I've turned text objects into Art Brushes to get the lettering to flow along a curve or other shape more gracefully.

Our first large format printer was a Roland VP-540. It was not reliable at all printing neutral grays. The grays would print either with a green or red tint. Sometimes the tint would shift in the same print job. Take one end of the gray print and wrap it around to the other; the grays would...

I'm willing to bet good money a bean-counting suit at Pantone dreamed up this scheme. There is no way it could have been pitched by a person actually involved in graphics production. In just about any professional graphics work-flow people will be using multiple types of software from multiple...

The ACB files from the CS6 release are pretty old (2012). They're missing a lot of the "Plus Series" color additions from recent years. I don't know how old/new the Pantone swatches are from the ericforest.ca website link in Post #4 above. It might be good to compare them. With an application...

Rival applications to Illustrator, such as CorelDRAW or Affinity Designer, are not affected by this Pantone color books issue (at least not yet anyway). Maybe Pantone sees Corel and Serif as "little fish" too insignificant to reel in, unlike Adobe. There is a work-around for Illustrator and...

What version of Photoshop are you using? Another bad issue: activation. Over the past several years Adobe has been steadily turning off the activation servers for various Creative Suite releases. From what I've heard they're going to be shutting down the servers that support the CS5 and CS6...

In order to use the Adobe Fonts service you need a Creative Cloud subscription. If your copy of Photoshop is a CC-based version then you're in luck. One CC account can be used on up to two computers. I use it on my desktop PC at work and my notebook at home. Plus I have some of the CC apps...

Yes. The Adobe Fonts service is one of the better perks that come with the subscription.