But real text on a path in Photoshop CS (nee, Photoshop 8) is holy grail-ish enough for me. Other highlights (PDF document) that are making me drool…
Had a co-worker yesterday as me what combination of filters I use to create my digital paintings. I had to explain that filters weren’t really part of the process. I guess it’s nifty that someone’s trying to do the same stuff I do. Of course, it’s also nifty that it’s not so easy to duplicate.
Bitstream’s just released the Vera font family as a cross platform replacement for the now removed MS core web fonts. JD Welch has a page up promoting them and their use online.
Lot’s of folks are jumping up and down about this, and it’s a good thing they’re now out and available, especially for the Unix/Linux/Open Source/Etc. crowd but they’re just not doing it for me. I have added the family as a second choice in my style sheets ’cause they don’t suck, and I think they will get picked up by a good percentage of viewers in the future.
So of course, Quark had to release a pretty vague PR statement about it. John Gruber offers the official statement and a great real world translation. I wanna see what he comes up with when Adobe starts issuing PR verbiage about PS8.
Eric Meyer just put up a nifty little applet that will let you calculate the the midpoint and up to ten intermediate steps between two hex colors.