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Safari's Back Bitches!

Tue Jun 16, 2009, 1:28 AM
I don't mean to come off as a hyoog apple nerd (as I always do) but this news got me a bit hyped.

Safari 4 just hit and I couldn't be happier. Everything that people claimed Firefox has over Safari is no more. Searchbar entries, top hits plus the gorgeous design and feel of every apple application. Don't believe me? Check it out here: [link]

Why this means good news for ME, is as follows: After creating my SafariSignal Icon series (seen here: [link] ), I came to the dour realization that nobody (not even most mac users) uses Safari like I do. Everyone's SO convinced that Firefox is the best browser out there that they don't even give Safari a chance. It's the same thing as why people don't like Mac over PC. All their friends tell them that PC is superior so they don't even bother figuring out if it's true or not (which it's not). Anyways, Safari has just delivered a massive groin-kick to Mozilla and I urge you all to look into it. And while you're at it, download and use my Safari Icons! :D I am very proud of them.

  • Mood: Triumph
  • Listening to: Superchunk
  • Reading: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Playing: Warcraft III

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Ok, so I'm thinking I should take the opportunity to purchase Photoshop while I can still get university pricing. The thing is, I can get just CS4 or I can get whole "Design Standard" package. It includes things like Illustrator and InDesign. I've never used these before, so I don't know how useful they are. What do you use them for? Are they worth purchasing?

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AB-solutely. At least for my major. If I didn't own CS3, I would have had to spent COUNTLESS nights locked in the schools computer lab (which I'm pretty sure closes at some point). It's an ESSENTIAL for art majors. As for Engineering...? Eh... I have no idea.

But I could not survive in the art world without SOME form of Photoshop and ESPECIALLY some form of Illustrator. I've used InDesign off and on and some Flash and Dreamweaver, but I know I will be needing them all a whole lot next semester. Adobe is the industry standard. Anything less is just setting yourself up to fail. (Of course, you know my stance on _PAYING_ for software... Fufufufufu...)

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But what do Illustrator and InDesign do?

And yeah, I know these things are absurdly expensive. But doing art for profit kinda entails a legal copy, lest I want to face huge fines and stuff. Plus this is what I want to go into, so I feel obligated to give money to the field, you know?

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No one has to knoooooooooow.... :o

Illustrator- Let's you work extensively with vector art to make incredible computer generated, ultra-slick looking images because the lines are crisp and there's no brush tool. They also have a feature called LiveTrace which takes any drawing and turns it into a clean vector art. I used it in this drawing: [link]

In-Design- If you ever EVER have to make a book, a magazine, a pamphlet or any kind of printed media that involves multiple pages, this is the standard for making those. It incorporates the formating of pages, incorporating text into manageable columns, and places outside images (possibly from Photoshop or Illustrator) by linking to them to ensure maximum print quality. I've used it on more than one occasion and know it pretty damn well.

And now a short description of the ones you didn't ask about:

Flash- Makes animations. Pure and simple. Anything you've ever seen on Newgrounds, homestarrunner or otherwise was probably made in flash.

Dreamweaver - Best website design software for people who haven't a clue how to design a website. Easy to learn and to use. I really need to mess around more with this one.

And of course, you know Photoshop. That's pretty much all there is to it.

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Oooh, that's nice lineart! Ok, I'm sold. And now to buy Photoshop!

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Your page has gotten crazy and awesome at the same time, although I just might be forgetting how it was before. e.e;

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Heheh, well thank you. Crazy is a compliment in my opinion. :D

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