This is a problem that hounded me and took me what seemed like forever to figure out. The problem was using SwithMAX 2 and exporting an animation as an animated gif. It would appear to go through the motions during export, but upon viewing the final gif, all I’d see is a blank graphic with a solid color and no animation. I trolled forums, tried re-installing, and always found the same result upon export of … Read entire article »

I waited quite a white to purchase CorelDraw X5, because that’s how I roll. I let the other graphic artists find all the bugs on their watch. Besides, X4 was working perfectly fine for me. So I recently made the plunge during my slow season to pick up X5. My immediate reaction? Two major issues! I’m happy to report that both of those major issues were quite easy to fix. So I’m not rolling along … Read entire article »

Picasa is the innovative photo organization software now backed by Google which scans your hard drive for photos and automatically detect faces in the photos. When you start identifying the faces, it will start trying suggesting matches. It had moments of complete geek heaven. But it’s not quite perfect yet. Especially when you have an “Unnamed Faces” folder full of what should be obvious matches. … Read entire article »