Back in the early days of the web, building a site was pretty easy – you just had to get your head around the rudimentary HTML code, lob in a few images and you were off.
Since then, web sites have become far more complex affairs with users’ expectations rising accordingly: if your site isn’t peppered with Twitter feeds, YouTube videos, Flickr slideshows, Facebook updates, contact forms, RSS feeds and more, potential customers may click elsewhere.
Xara Web Designer 7 aims to make to make it easy for newbies to put together feature-packed, good-looking websites courtesy of a simplified drag-and-drop interface, widgets and templates.
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Now nestling in Apple’s voluminous App Store is three shiny new Adobe iPad Photoshop apps, going under the names of Color Lava, Eazel, and Nav.
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Highly rated design app gurus Autodesk have unleashed not one but two versions of their popular SketchBook Mobile app for Android handsets.
Coming in free and paid versions (the premium app will set you back 65p/$0.99), the digital sketchpad lets users get all arty on their Android handsets via a suite of tools like pens, pencils, markers, and airbrushes.
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June 17th, 2010 11:54am
mike s
Now acquired by Magix AG, graphics editing package Xara Xtreme has had a major makeover and morphed into ‘Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 6′, while the more upmarket Xara Xtreme Pro has enjoyed a similar update and christened ‘Xara Designer Pro 6′.
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We’ve been fans of eBoy’s fabulously pixellated graphics for years, and the iconic graphics have inspired artists and imitators the world over.
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March 25th, 2010 9:30am
mike s
No doubt the final package will end up costing more than an exotic holiday in the Bahamas, but Adobe has been teasing us with a demo of some of the new features to be found in their forthcoming Photoshop CS5 photo editing suite.
In the five minute video demo below, you can see how the shiny new content-aware retouching tools work their magic – and it’s hugely impressive stuff.
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November 10th, 2009 10:00am
mike s
If you’re not mindful of re-mortgaging your house to get the latest copy of Adobe Photoshop, then the freebie Paint.Net application may be worth taking a look at.
The Windows-only image editor has recently been updated and now packs even more features, with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of handy tools for editing and tweaking your work.
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October 5th, 2009 12:00pm
mike s
Insanely, Apple’s lawyers have mounted a legal challenge to stop the Australian retailer Woolworths from using their shiny green logo, insisting that it is too close to its own.
Although Apple are famously litigious, this surely looks like a step too far - you’d have to be on some seriously mind-bending drugs to confuse the retailer’s effort with the internationality recognised Apple logo.
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