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News

Updated: our guide to Illustrator CS6, After Effects CS6, Premiere Pro CS6 and Photoshop CS6 plugins

Here we're listing professional-level plug-ins for Photoshop, Illustrator et al as they're updated to support Creative Suite 6.

Autodesk releases free 3D capture app 123D Catch for the iPad

123D Catch has come to your iPad, it's free, and it doesn't require any additional hardware besides the camera already builtin.

Microsoft project aims to turn any laptop into a Kinect

A pair of projects from Microsoft Research called Humantenna and Soundwave present a unique method for gesture recognition

• WD releases 500GB, 750GB, 1TB and 2TB My Passport USB 3.0 portable drives
• Want: real Instagram camera concept
• 2012 Apple MacBook Pro and iMac benchmarks appear on Geekbench site
• Virgin Media offers 100 creative paid internships competing to create a festival at Royal Opera House
• The rhythm method: Control apps by tapping out beats
• Electric lemonade zaps taste buds to change its taste
• Study rates interface design and UX as secret to Facebook's success
• IllumiShare lets artists draw together on paper from anywhere in the world
• Adobe will issue free security patches for pre-CS6 Photoshop, illustrator and Flash Pro
• Adobe Creative Cloud now available

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Product reviews

Sencha Architect: HTML5 without coding?

Sencha's drag-and-drop tool for building Web and mobile apps is friendly to designers if they're also developers

Akvis Decorator 3.0

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

Alien Skin Exposure 4 review

Add some dirt, scratches and marks to your clean digital images to give them more of an analogue feel

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Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial: Add narrative to a painted illustration

Lucy MacLeod shows how a single, balanced artwork featuring traditional and digital elements can sum up an entire tale

Promotional Tutorial: Make the most of After Effects CS6’s new 3D engine

Creation and rendering of raytraced objects in After Effects CS6 positively screams with NVIDIA technology

Illustrator Tutorial: Create promotional artwork that sells you to new clients

Ben the Illustrator shows how to excite new clients with your work

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IN-DEPTH GUIDES

How top studios create their best movie posters for Hollywood and indie films

Laura Snoad teases out what makes the best film posters shine and how to succeed in a tough field. Don’t miss it

What made me: Noma Bar

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

How to choose colours for a branding project

Laura Snoad explores the simple principles that guide leading agencies’ use of colour

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Tips

Reset Mac OS X Lion's 'annoying' page scrolling

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…

• QuarkXPress 9 tip: Create an outline style
• QuarkXPress 9 tip: Bullets, numbering, and outline lists
• QuarkXPress 9 tip: Blio Interactivity
• QuarkXPress 9 tip: Unlink with Linkster