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- Applications
- Tablet Software Packages, Filters, and Plug-ins
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- Third-party Plug-ins and Filters
- Color Calibration Software
» Tutorials
» Brushes for Photoshop
» Useful Links to Fonts and Typography
Tablet Manufacturers
Acecad
Aiptek
Altek
(Kurta tablets and digitizers.)
Dynalink
Fujitsu
(Hand-held pen tablets.)
GTCO Calcomp
Genius/KYE
(US) www.geniusnet.com.tw
(TW)
Mitsubishi
Sony Vaio Slimtop Pen Tablet
UC-Logic
Wacom
(Choose from Web sites in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Asia. You can buy tablets from
WacomDirect
or from one of their resellers.)
Xploretech
See the heavy duty GeneSys system.
Resellers of Tablets and Digitizers
I've selected a few links so you may compare prices on various tablets. However, use the links below at your own risk. We have not ordered from every company listed below, and therefore I cant guarantee their service or reliability. Use common sense if you consider ordering from the Internet. Make sure the e-shop gives you the necessary info, like telephone numbers, contact persons, and so on, so you feel confident youre dealing with a safe company. Check delivery prices and security. Do not give out your credit card number if the shopping basket is not residing on a secure server. You
should see a small yellow padlock (Explorer) or a key (Netscape) in your browser (bottom corner, right side) if the shopping basket is secure.
Advantage Outlet This site sells Kurta/Altek digitizers.
Amazon (US) and Amazon (Europe)
This site sells tablets from Wacom, GTCO Calcomp + more.
Buy.com (US) and www.gb.buy.com
(UK) www.canada.buy.com (CA)
These sites sell GTCO Calcomp, Wacom, and KB Gear tablets from their online stores in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
CAD Warehouse
This site sells GTCO Calcomp, Altek, and Summagraphics digitizers.
CDW
This site sell Calcomp, Wacom, KB Gear, and Genius tablets plus various cordless products.
Jungle
Wacom and Natural Pen; ships outside the UK on request.
MicroWarehouse
This site sells Wacom tablets for PC, SGI, and Mac; U.S. deliveries only.
NecX Direct
This site sells Wacom tablets; U.S. deliveries only.
Outpost
This site sells hardware and software for both the PC and the Mac. The company offers tablets from Wacom, KB Gear, and Micro Innovations.
Sony
Sonys shopping site where you can buy the Vaio Pen Tablet.
WacomDirect
Wacom's shopping site.
Tablet reviews
Here's a selection of links to some online computer magazines. These e-publications have tablet reviews as well as software and filter reviews.
CNET
CreativePro
Digital Media Designer
Electic Tech
Futurelooks
IT Reviews
MacAddict
MacCentral Consumer Reviews
PC Artist
PC Review
PC World
Planet3Dart
ZDNet Computer Shopper
Software
Applications; Tablet Software, Filters, and Plug-ins; Third-party Plug-ins and Filters; Tutorials; and Links for Fonts and Typography.
Applications
The following applications can be found at their respective Web sites:
Painter, CorelDRAW and KTP
Illustrator
Paint Shop Pro
Photoshop
Photoshop Elements
Tablet Software Packages, Filters, and Plug-ins Updated!
The following software packages, shareware, filters, and plug-ins can be found at these Web sites:
ArtGem (paint with pressure-sensitive brushes and images) New
Tutorials on creating Web page buttons uring Artgem available on their web site.
Art Studio New
...is a drawing program that supports all Wacoms pressure-sensitive pens. It records everything you do while creating a piece of art. Then you can play your artwork back and watch as it is recreated from start to finish. The ActiveX control allows you to embed the result on your web page.
Photo-Brush New
...is an image processing program, that offers a wide range of pressure-sensitiv photo retouching tools like red-eye-removal or skin colour correction. The brushes and nozzles allow precise pressure-sensitive painting with customized opacity and/or stroke widths.
PenOffice (Paragraph website)
Cybersign (signature verification software)
Sensiva
Wacom PenTools for Photoshop
...is available in version 3.02 with support for the Airbrush tool and support for Intuos tablets.
Third-party Plug-ins and Filters
Many plug-ins and filters are available in demo versions.
Download them and try them out to see if theyre worth the investment. The following third-party plug-ins and filters, which are but a sample of whats available, can be found here:
Alien Skin
Plug-ins for Photoshop, ImageReady, Fireworks, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and Paint Shop Pro, like Eye Candy 4000, Xenofex
Altamira
Genuine Fractals, Genuine Fractals Print Pro
Andromeda
Photoshop plug-ins like Varifocus, LensDoc etc.
Auto F/X
Photoshop plug-ins like Photo/Graphic Edges and AutoEye
Chroma Graphics
Photoshop plug-ins like MagicMask and EdgeWizard
Cytopia Software
Photoshop color correction plug-in CSI PhotoOptics
Intense Software
Photoshop and Illustrator plug-ins, and more
Right Hemisphere
Deep Paint, the Photoshop plug-in, and more
Human Software
Squizz filter package and more.
Color Calibration Software
ViewOpen and ScanOpen
Pantone ColorSuite and Pantone Personal Color Calibrator
Corel Premium Color Edition
KODAK COLORFLOW Custom Color Software ICC
or directly
Other Color Calibration Tools and Plug-ins
Test Strip from Vivid Details is a Photoshop Plug-in for color correction. It is available for Windows with a Mac version coming up. No demo. Visit the companys Web site at
www.vividdetails.com.
Colorsync from Imation is a color management module (CMM) software package for the Mac. Visit
the companys Web site.
Colorific from Sonnetech) measures the colors that your monitor displays. This information is used by your computer's operating system to give you more accurate color. Colorific works with applications such as Photoshop, PageMaker, and CorelDRAW and runs on Windows and Mac operating systems.
Visit the
company's Web site.
EzColor from Monaco is an entry-level ICC profiling tool for both PC and Mac. A demo is available.
Visit the companys Web site.
Tutorials
Adobe.com has lots of tutorials for Photoshop 6, Elements, Illustrator and so on. Always look at the companys
web page for information and tutorials for their software. The following tutorials can be found at their respective Web sites:
Apple Creative, Digital Imaging
Some good stories and a couple of tutorials on digital imaging on can be found on
Apple's Web site. Good stories to be found in the Web and Print sections also.
Desktoppublishing.com
links to tutorials, reviews, and other resources.
Eclipse e-zine
has some good tutorials for Photoshop (like Fun with Sepia) and other great stuff.
GraphixLand
This has some tutorials for CorelDRAW, Photoshop (these are basics but still good), and Paint Shop Pro, as well as for CSS, HTML, Flash and so on.
Saturation in Photoshop 6
(video tutorial) by Deke McClelland. More tutorials on Digital Media Designers Web
site, like layers and effects.
Thinkdan
Dan has some good Photoshop, Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand tutorials.
Brushes for Photoshop
Photoshop 5.5 and 6.0 Brushes
Note that many of these Web sites also have other Photoshop goodies and not only brushes!
Cybia
some excellent texture brushes.
Webbuilder101
hosts brush sets from various authors.
About.com
4 sets of decorative brushes the last time we counted, with illustrations so youll know what they look like before downloading.
Comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
Many brush sets available from this FAQ Web site.
Deepspaceweb
Various brush collections with themes like 'winter brushes' and so on.
Ritual Myth
has a couple of brushes
Graphics Galore
several sets of brushes, many Dingbats-style.
Useful Links to Fonts and Typography
Try the following links for understanding fonts and typography:
TYPOlis
Get information about type classifications
Graphions Online Type Museum
Go to Typographic terms
Planet Typography
TrueType resource archive
EyeWire
type columns by R. Williams
A Graphic
Designer's Guide to the Galaxy
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