Per Design

Mostly musings on design

Per Design

  • Thoughts on Adobe’s Creative Suite 3

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    I’m going to go ahead and be upfront about my pet-peeves. It’s confusing having Premium and Standard versions with different product mixes- and then two different versions of Photoshop. It feels like the mish-mash that makes up the various Microsoft Vista product line. Oh I understand – some people don’t need certain features. My wife…

  • Great clients have vision

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    What makes a great client? They have a vision and can articulate that vision while deferring to your expertise in design to meet their vision. The opposite of these great clients are those who, so to speak, say, “we have no idea what we want.” They are the hardest to please because they don’t have…

  • A brief thought on Photoshop CS3 Beta

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    The ubiquitous Photoshop icon, the eye, is not on the tool palette. [begin update] And yes it’s been missing since CS…but it didn’t really strike me until the CS3 beta at just how profound it’s missing is to me. John Nack at Adobe has the reasoning behind the new icon. I like the font being…