Hosts:

• George Coghill (@gcoghill)
• Krishna Sadasivam (@pcweenies)
• Tracy Bishop (@TracyBishopArt)

Links:

• Yiynova MSP19u graphics tablet monitor
• Frenden’s Yiynova review
• Krishna’s Yiynova review
• Manga Studio 5
• Cocoapotrace
  
• Glassboard
• Dragon Drop
• Portfolio Slideshow Pro/Porfolio Framework (WordPress)
• Snap Converter
• Total Spaces
• PopClip Extensions
• Art Muse

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Hosts: George Coghill (@gcoghill), Krishna Sadasivam (@pcweenies)

Links:

• Yiynova MSP19u graphics tablet monitor
• Teleport app
• Smudgeguard - drawing and tablet glove
• Pogo Connect — iPad stylus
• Procreate — iPad painting & drawing app
• Razr Nostromo gaming keypad
• Apple Numbers spreadsheet app
• Frenden’s Yiynova review
• Krishna’s Yiynova review
• Frenden’s brush sets

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Links:

• Trickster
• Bartender
• PopClip
• TextExpander
• Procreate
• iDraw (Mac, iPad)
• Ormr
• Razer Nostromo

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Picks of the Week:

• George:  Timing - track time spent in every document and app on your Mac.
• Krishna: SkyDrive - cloud storage from Microsoft.

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Picks of the Week:

• George:  DragonDrop – temporary file holder utility for moving files around your Mac (Mac App Store link)
• Krishna: Trickster - “recent items” quick-access menubar utility (Mac App Store link)

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Hosts: George Coghill, Greg Newman

Picks of the Week:

• George: Cloud.app - quick & simple screenshot and file sharing via the Mac menubar (Mac App Store; basic version free)
• Greg: Caffeine - temporary disable your Mac’s energy saver settings (Mac App Store; free)

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss automating things on your Mac both in Photoshop and Illustrator, as well as in the OS X Finder. We cover Photoshop/Illustrator Actions, AppleScript and Automator.

Picks of the Week:

• George: Art Director’s Toolkit (Mac App Store link)
• Krishna: NuGuard GripStand
• Chris: Adobe Illustrator Blob Brush in conjunction with the Feather effect.

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss some performance enhancing upgrades for your Mac, as well as some considerations about upgrading to a new Mac if you feel the need for more power.

Picks of the Week:

• George: Minecraft – video game with a 3D pixel art “drawing” software when in Creative Mode
• Krishna: ForeverSave 2 - versioned file auto-save utility

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the new upgrade policies for Adobe CS6, as well as the future of graphics software in a “post-PC” world of increasing mobile devices.

Picks of the Week:

• George: Procreate - drawing/painting app for iPad
• Krishna: Witch - window management utility
• Chris: Illustrator CS5 “Draw Inside” mode

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the pros and cons of upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”, how it’s working with our favorite graphics apps like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator as well as others, and thoughts on the future of Mac OS X based on our impressions of 10.7 and what it means for digital artists working on a Mac.

Picks of the Week:

• George: 10.7 Software Compatibility wiki
• Krishna: Monolingual
• Brad & Greg: Pixelmator 2.0

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss some handy Mac utilities for artists including Evernote, ForeverSave, CocoPoTrace, Overflow, LaunchBar and others. We also discuss keeping your Photoshop presets in sync via Dropbox per this post (see Bittbox for another approach). We also touch on why you should (or should’t) upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

Picks of the Week:

• George’s pick: f.lux - makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
• Krishna’s pick: BackBlaze offsite backup solution
• Chris’s pick: explore Adobe Illustrator’s Transparency panel

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss invoicing and time-tracking software for the Mac and apps for iOS, as well as to-do/GTD software.

Some of the software discussed: Things, OmniFocus, TimeCop, Pancacke, Billings, On The Job, Harvest, Freshbooks, Office Time.

Picks of the Week:

• George’s pick: PopClip - highlighted text copy/paste (and more) utility
• Brad’s pick: Black Cover – sketchbook/notebook/journal blog
• Greg’s pick: Streaks - iOS app & Ugmonk

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In this episode of the podcast, we continue the discussion of graphic tablets.

Picks of the Week:

• George’s pick: Smart Scroll (set the Grab Scroll feature to ‘button 4′ in Smart Scroll, and then set a button on the Wacom stylus to ’4th click’)
• Krishna’s pick: Clipboard History (George’s alternative: ClipMenu)
• Brad’s pick: Multiple undos in Photoshop (keyboard shortcut): under ‘Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts…’ in Photoshop, find the ‘Step Forward’ command under the Edit section and change to Command-Z; or use the default Command-Option-Z.

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In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Steve Jobs from the perspective of Mac artists, and start a discussion on Wacom graphics tablets – including the Bamboo series, the Intuos series and the Cintiq series.

We barely scratched the surface on the graphics tablets topic, so we will continue the discussion in the next podcast episode.

Links from the episode:

Picks of the Week:

• George’s pick: Smudeguard
• Krishna’s pick: Blast
• Brad’s pick: MakePhotoshopFaster.com

• George’s blog post on Steve Jobs
• Krishna’s blog post on Steve Jobs

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In this first episode of the podcast, we introduce one group of our regular hosts, discuss our preferred digital art software to give the listeners an idea of where we’re coming from, and what to expect from this podcast.

Links from the episode:

• George’s pick: Acquire for Photoshop (App Store Link)
• Krishna’s pick: ColorSnapper
• Brad’s brush tutorial: Inking and Coloring the Comic Strip “The Brads”

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