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One of the first things I do when updating Illustrator or installing it on a new computer is disabling the very annoying Double-Click to Isolate function. It's an old Flash-like behavior. But it gets in the way of the object alignment functions. If you're aligning objects to a key object you...

I can just as easily say being anti-Adobe or anti-paying for subscriptions or perpetual licenses for commercial software is a belief system as well. There is plenty of it on display in many forums and any Adobe-related news article with a comments section following it. Regarding "pipeline...

It's mostly about the user's own specific work flow and the files, assets, etc he or she has to handle in that work flow. That's going to determine if one really has to do something like subscribe to Adobe CC, buy a Mac or even switch from MacOS to Windows. For instance, the vast majority of...

I'm still trying to make sense of the acquisition. What exactly does this bring to Creative Cloud? I don't really care about buying a high priced Oculus headset. What I think would be good is Adobe actually having a real stand-along 3D modeling/animation app that is a whole lot more than the...

That's quite an over-generalized statement. By the way, there was no "CS7". You're assuming Adobe makes nothing but buggy software and implying the open source stuff doesn't have any bugs. Much of the advertising industry trades logos, assets, etc in Adobe-generated form. It's a lot easier to...

There has been a lot of incremental improvements and feature additions/enhancements to Illustrator since CS6. Enough features and effects have been added that I have to be careful about saving down to earlier versions. Newer effects like free-form gradients will break when saving down to...

If the employees are getting paid hourly then a move to a 32 hour work week amounts to a very serious pay cut. Lots of people working jobs in retail, restaurants, etc get hit with all sorts of reduced hour schemes like that. Many companies deliberately over-staff so they can fill shifts with...

I could only see our shop going to a 4/10 setup if business got slow. The way things are with our current Monday-Friday schedule we get a good amount of pressure from some customers to be open on Saturdays. We have had crews working on the weekends for some projects. Some people in our office...

Castle Ultra (bundled with CorelDRAW) looks similar. If that isn't a match the lettering in the sample is simple enough that it wouldn't take more than a few minutes to duplicate using manual digitizing and shape-building methods.

I've tried doing the form thing as a way to streamline my dialog with people actually making contact with the customers, be it a full time sales person, our company owner or even someone else answering the phone. All too often something the customer needs doesn't fit into that form. That's the...

GIMP is arguably the best free/open source alternative. Affinity Photo is a pretty good image editor ($49). It has a fairly similar tool set to Photoshop and can read PSD files. Procreate is a great painting app for the iPad. For a one time purchase of $10 in the app store it's quite a bargain.

The setting "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" is checked "on" by default in Illustrator CC as part of the default Adobe PDF Preset. Users can change any of the options. Certain setting get changed when saving under a different PDF Preset, such as the "smallest file size" preset. What...

Sign customers routinely want everything cheap as possible. Compounding the problem, far too many can be lazy as hell providing details and assets to get the job done promptly. The "logo" files they provide are very often the first stupid JPEG image they found on their personal computer's hard...

The mess of clipping masks, clipping groups and even embedded raster-based images in those groups is usually auto-generated when someone exports a graphic design with application-dependent effects in a format like PDF for viewing or even editing in a non-native application environment. No one is...

Customers often get irritated by those rates. That's because they don't think it costs us anything to drive out to their businesses to swap out a lamp or ballast. We pay out the wazoo for worker's comp insurance premiums along with all kinds of other stuff. So we track the amount time a crew...

Or you can make your own wheelchair logo thingie to hang from the rear view mirror. Seriously, I think there should be more stringent standards for who gets to park in those spaces. Here in my town I've seen perfectly able-bodied guys park giant $90,000 diesel 4X4 pickups in those spaces and...

Sadly this situation is far too common. I've dealt with people saving raster-based images in vector-oriented file containers (like EPS, AI, CDR, PDF, etc) for over 20 years. Way back then I had thoughts (or perhaps fantasies) that technology and knowledge would catch up to this problem and snuff...

I think that's an entirely different topic that what Apple is doing to strong-arm customers hopelessly locked into its hardware platform. I'll agree that Adobe has a monopoly of sorts. My workplace is suffering a bit under it. We have 3 Adobe CC licenses we're paying about $53 per month each to...

Is this proposed legislation perhaps inspired by Apple and its tendency lately to glue and solder the computer components that were previously upgrade-able by end users? That's one of the big turn-offs for me regarding Apple-branded computers. IMHO if you buy a notebook computer or desktop...

That approach can only, at best, get in the ballpark in terms of accuracy. First of all, mobile phone cameras only stink when it comes to tasks like zoom. Mobile phones have fake zoom, not an actual optical-based zoom lens. They crop into the image and then blow up the cropped result. Lousy. A...