Monday, December 22, 2008

iStudio


The iStudio range is being developed by c:four, a team of graphic designers, publishers, writers and software architects. Who were unhappy with current design and publishing software. They created a design engine, to handle the layout and typography which is capable of creating anything on screen and in print.

iStudio Publisher - helps you create great-looking documents with ease.

iStudio Bookbuilder - makes light work of writing and laying out books.

iStudio Pro - professional creative design and layout application.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Aviary - Online Creative Tool Set

Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications you can use in your web browser. They're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing.



Phoenix - image editor that has layers, masks, effects and undo history.

An online Photoshop like editor perhaps...



Peacock - does wonderful and amazing things, call it a visual laboratory.

Sounds interesting...


Toucan - color swatches and palettes tool to help you find colors.

Adobe Kuler eat your heart out...



They are also developing new members of the Aviary family : 

Just waiting to hatch I guess...


Raven - Vector editor

Woodpecker - Smart image resizer

Eagle - Pixel pattern recognition


Owl - Desktop publishing

Penguin - Word processor

Ibis - Font creator


Pigeon - Painting simulator

Hummingbird - 3D modeler

Tern - Terrain generator


Myna - Audio editor

Roc - Music generator

Starling - Video editor


Find out more, get the book due for release on December 23rd, 2008 :


More Than One Way to Skin a Cat

Create Eye-Popping Effects Using Aviary (Without Paying for Photoshop!)

by Meowza Katz (Author) 

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (December 23, 2008)

ISBN-10: 1598634720

ISBN-13: 978-1598634723

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Design Tips


More Design tips are available on MuireAgsa Design News & Information

Divine Proportions


In the art world there is a school of thought about image composition which is based on a mathematical sequence of numbers. The Fibonacci numbers are created by adding two previous numbers in a sequence to create the next number. 0. 1. 1. 2. 3. 5. 8. 13. 21. 34. 55. 89. 144. 233. 377. 610. 987. 1597. 2484. 4181. 6765. 10946. 17711.

This creates divine proportions and is used to create golden spirals, triangles and sections.