Design & Illustration
Icons brighten up Windows, but they also serve a more practical purpose in helping you to identify folders from files, and different types of file from each other. If you’re unhappy with the icons associated with various parts of your PC, though, you’ll be glad to know it’s possible to…
Take a look at PhotoFiltre and the number of buttons to be found in the various toolbars can be a little overwhelming to start with. The somewhat cluttered nature may be off-putting initially, but if you stick with the app you will find that it is pleasingly powerful and is…
You may be a designer, but creating fonts is an art. Not only do you have to find a particular style, it then has to be carried across every character, consistently. Try creating an entire symbol set in Illustrator. What you need is a dedicated font design tool and Birdfont…
Pixia is a powerful paint and drawing program. There are a host of selection and paint tools, colour tweaks, layer support, masks, effects and more. Click on “Colour Adjustment”, for instance, and you don’t just get some RGB sliders. Instead there’s a full curve correction tool, with a choice of…
When choosing a graphics package it is important to select the right tool for the job. Opt for too basic a program and you may find that you do not have access to all of the tools you need, while opting for a program which is more advanced can mean…
Part of the so-called “Affinity trinity”, Affinity Publisher is Serif’s answer to Adobe InDesign. The three apps work together beautifully thanks to the StudioLink feature, so you can edit images in Affinity Photo, create illustrations in Affinity Designer, and pull everything together in a gorgeous creation in Affinity Publisher. For…
Software Ideas Modeler is a versatile diagramming tools that can help you to create over 70 different types of diagram. There are many classic options here such as mind mapping, flowcharts and fault tree analysis, but there are also lots of rather more specific diagram types available. A key feature…