Category Archives: Software

Software for the graphic arts or photography

AppleScripting Adobe Photoshop

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I get involved in some pretty big stuff: This was my 58-foot GigaPan photo of San Luis Obispo as it appeared in the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in March. That photo was printed in 17 sections on glossy … Continue reading →

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You wanted kerning! You get kerning!

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brian Lawler

Last week I promised to write a blog about the next step in making my Lining Livermore typeface. I thought I was farther in the process than I was. Getting letters to fit adjacent to each other is a difficult … Continue reading →

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Digging into history for a “new” digital type design

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I am the faculty advisor of the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. The museum is a working collection of type and printing presses that collectively represent the history of relief printing from 1850 to 1950. This is one of … Continue reading →

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Crafting a graph in Adobe Illustrator CC

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Brian Lawler

The Graph tool in Adobe Illustrator has been around a long time, and has not been improved much since it was first released. It’s a strange tool because it is capable of generating some lovely visual information, but it’s frustrating … Continue reading →

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New Shaping Tool in Illustrator

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I’m on a roll here with the three newly improved tools in Adobe Illustrator. I like them all. The last of the three is the Shaping Tool, which I have always known as the Modify Anchor Point tool. It is … Continue reading →

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Illustrator’s new pencil tool

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I wrote a few days back about using the new Corners tool in Illustrator, which is delightful. I draw a lot in Illustrator, and I enjoy this new feature because it allows each corner in a polygon to have a … Continue reading →

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Another GREPping drama

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Brian Lawler

My dear wife is producing a book for a local author. He has typed his own manuscript in Microsoft Word, and it’s going to be about 300 pages. The author has a habit of substituting the letter l (el) for … Continue reading →

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Studying Illustrator’s new corners tool with Chinese food

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Brian Lawler

Everyone loves Chinese food, especially take-out, where you can carry it home, and eat it around the table while chatting with friends and family. I brought some home the other evening, and while slurping on some soup, I started studying … Continue reading →

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It must be a Mirage!
My large file printing problems are solved

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Brian Lawler

Following this blog, you have been exposed to the trials of printing very large photos on a wide-format Epson ink-jet printer. I have been feeling like a beta tester the last month or so, discovering all of the reasons why … Continue reading →

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Hong Kong, Day three-point-seven

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Brian Lawler

I think. Yesterday was the ICC Symposium at the Hong Kong Design Institute. We were expecting about 450 participants, and over 700 attended. The large auditorium at the center was filled, and they stayed all the way to the end. … Continue reading →

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