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Here we're listing professional-level plug-ins for Photoshop, Illustrator et al as they're updated to support Creative Suite 6.
123D Catch has come to your iPad, it's free, and it doesn't require any additional hardware besides the camera already builtin.
A pair of projects from Microsoft Research called Humantenna and Soundwave present a unique method for gesture recognition
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Sencha's drag-and-drop tool for building Web and mobile apps is friendly to designers if they're also developers
While the masking tools are hit and miss and it takes an age to run the preview, the basic results can actually be fairly convincing
Add some dirt, scratches and marks to your clean digital images to give them more of an analogue feel

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Lucy MacLeod shows how a single, balanced artwork featuring traditional and digital elements can sum up an entire tale
Creation and rendering of raytraced objects in After Effects CS6 positively screams with NVIDIA technology
Ben the Illustrator shows how to excite new clients with your work
Laura Snoad teases out what makes the best film posters shine and how to succeed in a tough field. Don’t miss it
In the first of our new series of interviews, the Israeli illustrator and creator of one of the nominations for the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year 2012 tells us the five things that have had the most impact on him and his career
Laura Snoad explores the simple principles that guide leading agencies’ use of colour
I wouldn't exactly call myself an old-fashioned guy, but I'm a little surprised at how long it's taking me to get accustomed to one of the minor little tweaks in OS X Lion, the new version of Apple's Mac operating system that launched today. I'm talking about page scrolling, which Apple has just inverted by default, and the newly tweaked feature can take more than a little getting used to…