+designers was launched some time ago as a free design and technics blog. A lack of time deadened it over some months.
But now I decided to relaunch it as a weblog for Flash beginners and semi-professionals. Furthermore it is German and more or less a straight Flash designing and ActionScript programming weblog with basics, tipps, tricks from beginner till advanced.
So feel free to check it out: +designers.
Update: Project dropped.
You may have never noticed that, but it is true: All what you can save in a regular PSD, you can save in a layered TIFF-6.0 file, too. In fact – everything: All layers and layer effects, channels, transparencies, even paths, …
Let’s take a look at advantages of TIFF: A better compression* than PSD, it is open while PSD needs a NDA and it is because of that documented and more common.
But since CS came out another file format found it’s way into Photoshop: Photoshop Big (PSB). This file format can be used with Smart Objects (double click a smart layer) within a PSD to break its file size limit of 4 GB. PSB can also be used on it’s own.
So if we compare all the advantages and disadvantages of PSD and TIFF-6, it turns out that TIFF-6 has not only all advantages of PSD but also advantages which a PSD hasn’t. The only reason for using that proprietary file format is, that you can extend it with PSB or use PSB itself.
Otherwise you can use TIFF without any worrying (if you don’t forget to check “Layers” in the save dialog) – I use it likewise from now on.
* multiple compressions are included in TIFF: ZIP, LZW and – without layers – JPEG
You may have heard that the Adobe Creative Suite 3 is not officially supported on Mac OS X 10.6. After John Nack the reason for that is the enormous increasing caring for software updates on the one hand and the Adobe policy not to support software which is not longer shipping on the other hand.
But the jury is still out (John Nack quoted):
[Update: No one said anything about CS3 being 'not supported' on Snow Leopard. The plan, however, is not to take resources away from other efforts (e.g. porting Photoshop to Cocoa) in order to modify 2.5-year-old software in response to changes Apple makes in the OS foundation.]
Furthermore he found out, that the Photoshop team has tested Photoshop CS3 on a Snow Leopard installation and it ran properly.