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Best Tablets for Art and Design
What's better for art, design or illustration: an iPad, an Android tablet or a tablet PC, convertible or 2-in-1 from the likes of Microsoft, Dell or HP? We compare your options here.
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Adobe price increase confuses customers
Adobe US customers, Creative Cloud pricing will increase from April 2018. UK customers aren’t affected, yet still received an email outlining the planned increases, causing confusion.
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Design an app prototype to win a trip to Adobe Max 2018 in LA
Create a prototype of an app that highlights the best of where you live, and you could win a paid trip to Los Angeles for two for the always-inspiring Adobe Max conference.
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The best Wacom drawing tablet and its alternatives
We feature the best Wacom graphics tablet for artists, designers and illustrators, and its less expensive alternatives.
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The story of After Effects – the compositing and animation software that has beaten the competition for 25 years
As After Effects turns 25, one of its original developers – who is still at Adobe – tells us how how they nearly went bust before it took off, and how it’s survived when so many rivals haven’t.
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Adobe has upgraded After Effects, Premiere Pro and Lightroom with better colour, puppet and VR tools
Adobe has released new versions of After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC, Character Animator, Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic. Here's what's new.
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Building sites and apps for a global market
Digital products have the potential to reach a huge global audience— however, they present a unique set of challenges along the way.
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Digital artist Mike Campau's dystopian scenes reflect a growing mistrust with social media
Social media is starting to get some pull back, and rightfully so, says Mike.
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Passion Pictures on creating a sensory, metaphorical animation for Dementia UK
Reuben McNaughton from Passion explains the difficulty of visually exploring dementia without becoming too patronising.
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ManvsMachine and other artists push Apple's iMac Pro to the limit using powerful rendering tools
Six short films were created by motion graphic designers and artists for Apple using Houdini, Cinema 4D, Maya and more.
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QuarkXPress 2018 is coming, and it's bringing emojis
Quark wants to tempt you back from InDesign with support for colour fonts - including emojis - and creating Android apps.
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No need to scan sketches into your computer with Moleskine's new smart pen
The Pen + Ellipse pen can capture each stroke in real time and immediately transfer them to your digital device.
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Gravity Sketch is the first pro-level VR app for artists
Ready Player One concept artist Jama Jurabaev tells us about tool that’s a generation beyond Tilt Brush and Oculus Medium.
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Adobe CC buying guide: pricing, new features, discounts & free trials
Adobe released Creative Cloud (CC) in October 2011, in a move towards becoming more of a software-as-a-service provider (though you can use CC products offline as well). If you’re considering a shift to the cloud as well, but aren’t totally sure where (or how) to start, or if it’s worth it, here’s what you need to know.
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The best design, art & animation events in 2018: Exhibitions, conferences, festivals & more
Find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people.
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Best painting software for artists: 9 digital painting apps for Mac and PC as used by professionals
Discover the best Mac and PC applications for digital painting – including a plugin that lets you use Corel Painter inside Photoshop, Rebelle's new version and more.
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Adobe has released free vector icons, created by leading designers including the legendary Lance Wyman
Lance Wyman, Anton&Irene and Büro Destruct have created icon sets you can download now.
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Lightwell software lets you create mobile apps without using code
Now with an entirely new UI and templates – with this tool artists, designers and animators can turn work into an interactive app for iOS without any code.
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9 Best Photo Editing Apps for iPad
Discover the best iPads apps for professional-level photo editing on your iPad – including photography apps from Adobe, Affinity, Google and more.
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You'll soon be able to use Pokémon Go's tech to make your own AR games and experiences
The company behind Pokémon Go, Niantic, aims to make its AR technology more wide available later this year, as it focusses on global multi-user experiences.
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10 best video tutorials websites for Photoshop
Discover the best online video tutorials and one-to-one sessions to help you master Adobe Photoshop tools and techniques.
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This cinemagraph app was used by the Grammys to add subtle animation to Instagram posts
Create looping videos or animated PNGs with Plotagraph to make sure your social media posts stand out.
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Adobe Photoshop CC update adds Select Subject cutout tool and Microsoft Dial Brush settings support
Adobe has released small updates to Photoshop and XD CC today – with one significant feature added to Photoshop.
