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Comment on Free Software Alternatives to Adobe CS6 by Jim Plaxco

Jim Plaxco — Mon, 20 May 2013 02:49:37 +0000

An excellent list Jasper. Thanks.

Comment on Free Software Alternatives to Adobe CS6 by Jasper

Jasper — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:06:52 +0000

Here is a good list I found online.

GREAT ALTERNATIVES TO ADOBE SOFTWARE – Free and Commercial

For photo editing, manipulation, and composition:
Pixelmater
Corel Painter
Topaz and OnOne plug-ins
Corel PaintShop Pro X5
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
PhotoLine

For illustration:
Corel Painter
Manga Studio 5
Sketchbook Pro
Corel Draw
IDraw for Mac – replaces illustrator
Inkscape

For video:
FinalCut Pro, Motion
iMovie
Lightworks
Avid Media Composer
VideoStudio Pro X6
Nuke.

For Audio:
Pro Tools
Audacity
Sound Forge Pro
ACID Pro.

For print work:
Swift Publisher
WordPerfect
Scribus.
MultiAd Creator Pro
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
QuarkXpress

For Web:
Coda
Astana Studio
Wordpress
Tumult Hype ( instead of Edge Animate )
Expression Web, Espresso
Notepad plus

For PDF:
PDF Studio Pro
NitroPDF
Corel PDF Fusion
PDFsam Enhanced.

Instead of Lightroom:
Aperture
Corel AfterShot Pro

Feel free to add to this list! I am sure there are other alternatives out there.

Comment on Free Software Alternatives to Adobe CS6 by Jim Plaxco

Jim Plaxco — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:54:46 +0000

Hi Jane,
Yes ArtRage and Painter are commercial alternatives. If one considers commercial alternatives to Adobe products then the field of options really opens up.

For example, QuarkXPress as an alternative to InDesign.

Or Sketch as an alternative to Illustrator

Or Capture One Pro as an alternative to Adobe Camera Raw.

Depending on the product and how it is used, these alternatives could actually be better than their Adobe counterpart.

Comment on Free Software Alternatives to Adobe CS6 by Jane

Jane — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:05:26 +0000

Depending on what kind of work you are doing in Illustrator, ArtRage (which is ridiculously high quality for its low price) and Corel Painter can also be effective substitutes.

Comment on A Day at Yerkes Observatory: Mars and Astronomical Art by Jim Plaxco

Jim Plaxco — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:56:55 +0000

Hi Lori,
I did read the book and found parts of Packing for Mars to be quite funny and learned some interesting things about human physiology and past space research into the life sciences. However, the book really was mis-titled as it had nothing to do with planning a mission to Mars. It could have just as easily been titled Packing for the Moon or Packing for L5. Unfortunately the books’ author canceled out on participating in the workshop at the last minute so I did not have a chance to ask her why she titled her book Packing for “Mars”.

Comment on A Day at Yerkes Observatory: Mars and Astronomical Art by Lori

Lori — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:27:54 +0000

Have fun tomorrow! If you haven’t already read the book you should-it’s very accurate, informative and highly entertaining.

Comment on Comet Spotting: Pan-STARRS by Jim Plaxco

Jim Plaxco — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:57:29 +0000

Hi Peggy, Thanks. Fortunately what was invisible to me was visible to the camera. Having captured the comet photographically (can’t say “on film” anymore) was my consolation prize.

Re Pan-STARR, you are right – higher but dimmer as the days go by and it moves further away from the Sun.

I’ve also heard good things about ISON – I just hope that they are right and that it puts on a good show for us Earthlings.

Jim

Comment on Comet Spotting: Pan-STARRS by Peggy Hernandez

Peggy Hernandez — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:01:05 +0000

Nice shot Jim. How cool that you didn’t think you had anything…yet there it was. I hope ISON is a littel better in te fall. I wnet to a band concert at 7 last night and stood outside in the cold until 6:58,. It was too bright. I think its cloudy now…and getting a little higher, but dimmer all week.

Comment on Capricon Science Fiction Convention – Artificial Intelligence by Lori

Lori — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:11:33 +0000

Hey Jim, I’m really looking forward to Capricon too! I’m glad you’re getting your own panel, it should be interesting! There are a lot of schedule conflicts for me, I think for almost every time slot I have three panels that sound interesting with the top choice starred. Usually I rely on having at least one time-slot with nothing much that sounds good so I can make the rounds of the dealers room. This time I don’t think I’ll have much of chance to shop.

Comment on Google Image Search Now Dumber by Jim Plaxco

Jim Plaxco — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:53:42 +0000

Update: In this rather late update to my post, Google reinstituted the size search option approximately two weeks after my original blog post.

Jim