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I have been playing around a bit with Daz 3D Studio since it was recently made freely available. At first I struggled to find an actual use for the program, then I realized how exceptionally easy it made creating animated sprites. The following tutorial will walk through creating the following walk cycle using […]
Creating a spritesheet using Daz Studio and The GIMP Read More
Right off the hop when you load Photoshop touch, you will be brought to this screen: This is where you manage existing projects, organize, share and delete your files. The sharing aspect we will get to a bit later. The absence of a menu key is a bit […]
Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 1 The UI Layout Read More
Now lets take a quick look at the tools available in Photoshop touch. Obviously the tool bar is the ideal place to start. It is fairly sparse but at the same time is the essence of Photoshop and I rather appreciate the streamlined nature. Here is a graphic of […]
Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 2 The Tools Read More
OK “Actions” may be a bad choice of words, but I never came up with a better name and as you will see shortly, there are some items here that would probably make more sense to be in the tools section. Just like the tools menu, the Actions menu can be minimized by […]
Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 3 The Actions Read More
Layers in PS Touch are much more streamlined than in desktop Photoshop. First off, there is a fixed limit of 16 layers, which while manageable can be a bit of a pain. Given the constrained resources of the devices it is operating on, it seems like a reasonable enough limitation. The layer interface […]
Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 4 Layers Read More
As you have seen, there is a ton of functionality packed in to a 10$ package! They made good use of the tablets features and with a few UI exceptions, it is an incredibly well put together piece of software. As far as Android apps go, it is actually much more stable than […]
Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 5 The Results! Read More
One nice recurring trend with mobile applications is a wealth of post release support. Fortunately, Photoshop touch is no exception. As of this writing ( February 17th, 2012 ) Photoshop Touch has been patched to 1.1.1 and happily they addressed most of my biggest complaints! So then, what was the […]
Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 6 Post Release Changes Read More
Sculpting is all the rage in 3D these days, and for good reason. You can quickly and fairly easily make incredibly detailed models in a very intuitive manner. Many professional studios have slotted a sculpting application like Autodesk Mudbox or Pixologic ZBrush in their workflows. Only one catch… got 800$? In the world […]
Cool thing of the Week: Week 6 Read More
A couple days back, PlayN developers posted a handy little tablet showing what the current development status is for each supported platform. The iOS support seems to be coming along nicely, but as you can see, there is still some work to be done. Java HTML5 Android iOS Flash Analytics Stub Comp Stub […]
PlayN progress update Read More
As I mentioned in my earlier review, all the links for Hexagon’s documentation are currently broken. Since then, I have noticed a fair bit of search engine traffic of people looking for documentation, for good reason too… this program is downright confusing! I have noticed that although all of the links to […]
Hexagon Manual / Documentation Read More