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Living just North of the Red River here in Okie Country there have been plenty of times I've been jealous of Texas. NOT THIS TIME! Holy Geez Louise! We have quite a few nearly empty grocery store shelves up here in Oklahoma. I visited one of our local grocery stores earlier this evening and I...

In one respect it's a strange kind of fun to fix graphics problems. On the other hand this idea feels like opening a great big can of worms. Putting it bluntly, no one wants to do any kind of freelance graphics work and/or graphics trouble-shooting services at the risk of getting ripped off by a...

I'll always hate vertical phone videos. So much eyewitness news footage is badly goofed up thanks to people who can't manage to hold their phones sideways. Vertical video captured by a phone is okay when played back on a phone held vertically. But the video sucks @$$ played on anything else, be...

That's the footage from the pile-up 6:30am Thursday. Grimly funny commentary coming from the guy shooting video at the 3 minute mark. Near the end of the video I was glad to see at least a couple people knew how to frame a shot correctly. I just really detest vertical video.

Actually, it turns out the speed limit at the spot of the pile up is 65mph in the general purpose lanes and 75mph in the tolled express lanes: https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7875817,-97.3209603,3a,75y,3.19h,91.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKadugkVsMocs9DnDT6sodg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 But, yeah, add...

We had the same icy weather here in Lawton on Wednesday morning. Black ice all over the roads, sidewalks and parking lots. I-44 in Lawton was closed down and traffic diverted for hours because a truck jack-knifed at the Cache Road interchange. There were dozens of crashes all over town. No one...

I think the choice of typeface should really depend on the feeling or tone the lettering should evoke. What is the lettering going to say? Is it part of a brand name or slogan? Obviously a bold sans-serif typeface will be easier to fabricate than something more ornate. Even among sans faces...

Adobe isn't the only culprit in corporate merger mania in the software industry. Macromedia and Adobe both picked apart Aldus and Altsys in the early 1990's. Adobe didn't absorb everything from Macromedia. Final Cut Pro was originally in development at Macromedia and Apple snagged that and their...

Adobe dominating the graphics space is even more true now than it was 30 years ago. They had multiple credible rivals on the Mac platform back then -rivals with near equal footing. That's not really the case now, particularly in the categories of page layout, photo editing and vector graphics...

When installing CorelDRAW you have to be sure the Windows shell extensions option is checked. That's what allows CorelDRAW to display thumbnails of artwork automatically in Windows File Explorer.

30 years ago the Mac platform was vastly superior to Windows for graphic design purposes. Too many professional level applications were Mac-only releases. Adobe was one of the first credible vendors out of the gate. If you wanted to do professional level digital print design and advertising work...

Illustrator's standard pen tool works just fine in adjusting bezier handles while you're laying down a new path. It's kind of hard to describe some of the added things the InkScribe tool can do above the stock pen tool. If I'm drawing out a path and want to go back and adjust one of the...

Adobe is far from the only vendor offering lower pricing to educators for its software. Adobe isn't doing any more to push their software to educators than anyone else. They're certainly not doing any kind of arm twisting. We have a local vo-tech and it offers a graphics and photography course...

You are reaching big time with a few different factors. First you appear to be assuming Adobe is totally maxed out on its number of subscribers and cannot attract any more users. And this notion of luring people to the next full version? That's a dog currently not hunting. What the hell is Corel...

I don't really agree. That statement implies that full version releases in non-subscription software will always have major improvements. I've seen plenty of non-subscription software offer pretty under-whelming full version updates. CorelDRAW has even suffered in its past few versions, offering...

Adobe's move to selling its software exclusively via Creative Cloud made enough of a difference in its bottom line that its stock price has soared in the following years. Adobe's first Creative Cloud-only versions of applications were released on June 17, 2013. Their stock price at that time...

CorelDRAW forums are closed? Really? I checked https://community.coreldraw.com/ and it still looks alive and well to me.

Up to who to allow it? Adobe? The Astute Graphics plugins are very much hard wired with Illustrator DNA for how deep they dive into Illustrator functions. I think it would be more complicated porting those plugins to a rival drawing application than it is to create something like a vinyl plotter...

It appears the biggest improvements in Affinity Designer 1.9 are the addition of a contour tool, the ability to use linked images, auto-selecting objects according to certain similar attributes and saving various workspace setups (studio presets). Most of these features have been in...

Script fonts are the best fonts? Is that statement an attempt to troll a big argument? I, for one, do not agree with that statement at all, especially when it comes to sign design.