This year find inspiration, fun, skills and the chance to meet some like-minded people at these festivals across subjects from concept art and illustration to branding, and from graphic and UX design to animation and VFX.
Creative Cloud subscribers could get their hands on the Substance line of software applications for creating 3D textures and materials soon.
Art apps like Procreate Pocket and Pixelmator Pro also feature in Apple's Best of 2018 lists.
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Procreate's latest update is fine-tuned for the Apple Pencil, and new features can turn your sketched shapes into symmetrical forms.
Facebuilder is out now on The Foundry Nuke, making 3D modelling of faces a whole lot easier, no matter the type.
Now with videos of the new tools in action, here we pick out the best Adobe prototypes and works in progress unveiled at this year's Adobe MAX in LA.
HP’s SmartStream D4D software can create unique variations on any one design for brand packaging. It was announced almost a year ago, but it's out now.
Adobe has announced the release of Creative Cloud 2019, out now with a version of Photoshop for the iPad and updates to InDesign, original Photoshop, Illustrator and more.
Making its official debut at Adobe Max, we saw a preview of Photoshop for the iPad.
A new platform promises an end to nightmare briefs - if not nightmare clients.
Adobe announces an easier way to help designers place images in InDesign.
Apple's new update to the Mac operating system is causing issues with Photoshop CC.
Adobe unveils a customisable toolbar feature for the forthcoming update to Illustrator CC.
Adobe has taken the wrapping off new versions of AE, Premiere and other tools – though they're not shipping yet.
An upgraded version of the tool for removing objects from scenes gives you more control over how it works on tricky images.
Serif's Affinity Publisher for Mac and Windows aims to offer professional layout tools to graphic designers who don't want to subscribe to Creative Cloud – and an iPad version will follow.
Machine learning has allowed the likes of Nvidia to make tasks like object removal, noise reduction and up-rezing much, much easier.
Lucid offers designers a chance to create design systems without the use of code.
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