A Monitor for Every Budget – What Monitor for Photography and Design?
Share Once again, I found an excuse to upgrade my monitor and so went on the hunt for the best design appropriate monitors. A while back I did another search and came up with the list of monitors for design. I went for the HP w2558hc in the end. Great monitor and I can’t recommend [...]
QuickGamma – Calibrate Your Monitor Free
Share A while back, I made a post showing a free utility available for mac that was very comprehensive in calibrating a LCD screen. You can view that here. However, it was only available for Mac, QuickGamma is the nearest substitute for the estranged Windows users. I have not personally had a chance to test [...]
What is the best 22″ 24″ 28″ 30″ graphic design photography monitor
Share Whilst searching the web for a comprehensive resource to help me to decide what monitor to buy, I came across this great thread on the AnandTech Forums: Best Monitor for Purpose The thread is segmented into different purposes you may require monitors for. Here is the section related to Design:
Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance
Share Speed Up Adobe Illustrator Performance on Windows http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=320782&sliceId=1 Excerpt: By configuring your system to run efficiently, you increase the amount of memory available to applications and ensure that they run smoothly. Increase the amount of memory available to Illustrator, quit applications you are not using, or disable nonessential startup applications or fonts to improve [...]
Great Custom Adobe CS3 Icon Packs
A list of high quality custom icon packs to replace the icons Adobe CS3 was shipped with!
Speed Up Adobe Photoshop
Share Soo, Photoshop is the topic of this post and the infinite amount of time it can take to load up on the average spec PC. In the past suffered hard, often clicking photoshop, going and making coffee and coming back to it finally loaded up. Thus, over the years, I’ve found various ways to [...]