May 05, 2009

PICT support in Photoshop: An update

Thanks for the quick and detailed feedback on whether to drop support for PICT files in Photoshop. Going forward our plan (at least for the foreseeable future) is to keep reading these files, but not to keep writing them.
For the sake of completeness, I’ll mention that I don’t think Photoshop will continue to read QuickDraw-based PICT files (as QuickDraw is unsupported in Cocoa/64-bit). I don’t expect that to matter, thought: Photoshop CS4 dropped QuickDraw PICT support on Windows & no one has mentioned it. Additionally, no one who commented in response to my query talked about using this flavor of PICT; rather, people talked about using raster PICTs, and Photoshop will still support opening those.

Tuesday Illustrations: Paper, pantslessness, & more

• Alberto Cerriteño offers great illustrations as laptop-skin decals. (My wife says this skin is more up my alley, though.) Peep his whole portfolio for more excellence.
• Paper:
  • Noriko Ambe cuts shapes into books and stacks of paper.
  • Jill Sylvia creates incredibly intricate structures from ledger paper. [Via]
  • Jacquet Fritz Junior makes sculptures from toilet paper rolls.
• “Watch your favorite artists live today.” Deeply weird illustrations promote Tzabar ticket services. (Fortunately Danny Gans was not included in the list.)
• Uhh…
  • Pantsless, by Laura George
  • It hurts when I pee. Yes, I’d imagine so. Lots more here.