iPhone Apps for Graphic Designers

Tick Tock... Tick Tock... The clock is ticking away... Has the Apple iPhone come out on something other than AT&T yet, so I can get one?

It's not like anyone needs another reason to lust after the Apple iPhone, but I found some applications that are made specifically for graphic designers that will make you druel [Which makes me want it that much more, lol]. There are more apps that I will need to download when the day comes, but these are specifically meant for the coolest people that walk the earth [graphic designers, duh] and I thought I would share the good findings.

Let the downloading begin!

Ruler 

Very simply, Ruler is a… ruler and it's on your iPhone or iPod touch. Works in centimetres and inches and can save your latest measurement. This will come in handy even if you aren't a graphic designer. Whoo Hoo!

Palettes 

Palettes is an iPhone App for creating color schemes. With Palettes, it is possible to sample colors from websites, iPhone photo album images or other color schemes. It will import and export color palettes to and from Adobe Photoshop and supports a number of color modes, including RGB, HSV, HSL and CMYK. There is also a Lite version of Palettes, which does not cost anything, but has some features removed (such as importing and exporting palettes from Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and other programs. This is pretty cool, I cannot wait to get my hands on this one!

Things 

Things is a productivity application, or task manager. Things allows the creation of to do lists and allows the prioritisation of items. For example lists can be created for items to be done today, next, or at scheduled times or dates. I will be using this one left and right, I am a note/list maker and lover.

Color Expert 

Another color-based app, which functions by providing a swatch library and interactive color wheel to help enable creatives to select, showcase and identify colors. Color Expert includes various Pantone swatches, web safe and HTML colors. It is also possible to add custom colors and email Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) files. Nifty Stuff, I tell you what!

Caliper 

Caliper is another measuring tool for the iPhone, but this App uses caliper jaws to enable measurement. The upper and lower caliper jaws can be moved independently or together and measurements can be taken in pixels, as well as centimetres and inches. I would like to see this one in action, wow.


I cannot wait until my day comes when the iPhone will be MINE. For now I have my dreams and my daydreams.

I use Photoshop EVERY DAY!! A computer without Photoshop is useless to me. [#PSMYWorld]

Since 2002 I have been a Photoshop NUT / Fanatic. Sometimes you feel like a nut... sometimes you don't... [but I ways do] Ha ha!

There has only been a very few amount of days that I haven't used Photoshop for the past several years. Of course I use it for my job because I'm a professional Graphic Artist but I also use it for fun too! When my computer is down I feel like I'm missing my arm or leg.  It's true!  I really enjoy working on my computer using photoshop to make stuff. It's like magic in a box! They don't call it "Photoshop Magic" for nothing.

I'd have to say Photoshop is, by far, my favorite Adobe program. There are some people who favor Adobe Illustrator for their designs but I'm in love with Photoshop. There isn't really anything you cannot do in Photoshop that wont rock your socks off.

Top Ten Reasons I love Photoshop:

1. It includes the Pen tool =) I sure do enjoy my custom shapes!
2. Brushes, there are so many websites with free awesome brushes that spice your artwork up like a bowl of chili!
3. Effects, sometimes adding a drop shadow to your artwork makes a world of a difference!
4. Anything is in your hands!... You can use photoshop to do practically ANYTHING... Wanna have a photo of you riding a bear???  Yeah... I can do that in Photoshop!
5. Animations. You can make an animated gif if you need to... right there in Photoshop!
6. Website tools. You can do your layout and then cut it all out, EASY! Right there in Photoshop!
7. ACTIONS! Yeah!  I love the custom actions you can make. It's the smart way! I use this a lot for my website photos.
8. Batches. Yet another smart way to do design. Nothing like making the computer do all of the work! Time SAVER Indeed! Ha ha! It reminds me of my friend Scott [He would be sitting at his desk with his feel up while 3 computers were running a batches to resize an entire website... He commented that he WAS working].
9. Photo enhancement options. Sometimes photos come out bad and I love using photoshop to make them look beautiful. Also, you can have tons of fun with the cool effects. Who wants blue eyes??
10. Clone Stamp... AWESOME <3
11. [Sorry, one more] LIQUIFY. You cannot forget this! I LOVE the pinch tool! Good bye chunky arms or whatever! Pinch Pinch Pinch... PERFECT!

I have an entire website FULL of stuff I've made MOSTLY from photoshop. I think the artwork speaks for it's self on how brilliant of a program it is... Of course, these were my design ideas... but Photoshop helped me succeed to make them happen!

Feel Free to browse my website:
www.hkdezigner.com