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The pros to Silkscreen was that it creates a new preview image every time you save your PSD. I found myself moving windows a lot or screens savers triggering and needing to log back in. The con is that it's broadcasting a live view of your desktop. The pros to Liveview is that it's broadcasting a live view of a particular view port to your device from your desktop. To preview artwork on my devices I've used Liveview and Silkscreen. In the past I've mainly used a combination of Photoshop for actual pixel rendering and Illustrator for vector artwork (icons, bars, illustrations).
#Best vector apps for mac software#
So, in deeper answer to your question, the best design software for you to use is a designer. You'll both benefit massively from the others talents, and be able to more deeply focus on your own talents and improving in that area.
If you're a programmer, and can communicate with a designer, that will ultimately be a 1+1=3 type of equation. You either have sufficient empathy to be a designer and will push through learning the tools to express that, or you're a programmer. This is something that can't really be taught or learned. But there's a magic ingredient to design, and that's an intuitive understanding of humanity's desires and opinions, feelings, sentiments and the zeitgeist of now. Design might look like anyone can do it, that all you need do is learn the tools. And in so doing, partner with a designer for design. If you're a competent programmer I think you should focus on becoming a great programmer.
#Best vector apps for mac free#
Sorry, while I'm handing out free advice, one more thing. It would be completely remiss of me to not point out that this app does this "automagically", apparently: But it's very much worth it for the ability to live edit and preview onscreen. I've spent a lot of time testing these sorts of setups to do LIVE editing on the device, and this can be much more fiddly and unreliable than it should be, so please don't be shy about asking more questions.
#Best vector apps for mac full#
BUT, Photoshop can also do second screen, full screen previews with a duplicate of the current document, so you get live updates on the device, without chrome and other nonsense obscuring your full screen viewing. Photoshop is rather painful to work in for interface design, because it's not really suited to the job, and Fireworks, which was excellent for UI design is now a thing of the past.
#Best vector apps for mac update#
I prefer a more powerful vector app for editing than Indesign, so I embed an Illustrator document into that Indesign document with live linking and then draw in Illustrator.hit a key combo that updates everything in Indesign and see it all update on the iPad/iPhone.Īdobe Bridge can do similarly, more directly, but is so prone to "losing its connection" that it's only stable for a few updates to the original file. It has a full window preview mode that you can push out to the iDevice, as a duplicate of the open document, so you continue working in Indesign on the computer and see live updates on the iDevice screen. Some apps are good at this, some are near impossible to get right. You need to get your work view over to the screen without borders and chrome etc. Amongst other benefits over things like Skala View etc. So yes, you can operate your apps and draw on screen in Photoshop with these things.
iDisplay's touch screen responsiveness is (to me) a little better. BOTH of these apps are designed for extending your display, so their benefits don't end with your testing of app interfaces dynamically. There's minor differences between them, both developers are responsive, but iDisplay is the little guy, and he's super cool with his email responses. I prefer iDisplay but do use both, and at $20 a shot, it's not like you're breaking the bank to try each. The best rig is either iDisplay or AirDisplay.
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Android devices compound the fiddliness of doing this. If you need this explained as to why this generalisation is true, you probably still believe in a benign Microsoft and the "virtues" of laissez-faire economics.
Let's deal with Apple first, because you should always design for this platform first. This sounds so logical you'd imagine it's easy to achieve and that someone had thoroughly setup a situation that did this live, easily. If you have the device you're designing for, you want something that can pitch out the image you're working on, straight to the device, so you can see what you're editing on the actual intended screen.
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