{"id":425,"date":"2017-08-06T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-08-06T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:06:35","slug":"alternative-graphics-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/2017\/08\/06\/alternative-graphics-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Graphics Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone that is about to lose access to my Temple sponsored software one of the things I\u2019m going to miss the most is Adobe Illustrator (AI). The Cartographic Design requirement for the PSM in GIS really made it clear how a few simple image adjustments using a program like Illustrator can make a map product exported from ArcGIS or QGIS look thousands of times better. Luckily while attending a recent Technical Workshop at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azavea.com\/\">Azavea<\/a> one of the lightning talks was about improving product visualization. The speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azavea.com\/about\/teammate\/jeff-frankl\/\">Jeff Frankl, User Experience Designer at Azavea<\/a> demonstrated <a href=\"http:\/\/Figma.com\">Figma.com<\/a>, an online alternative to AI. Currently Figma is free to use as an individual, with the ability to have three active projects stored for 30 days. The user interface is very similar to AI, but if you\u2019re new to both programs there are plenty of instructional videos, the major difference being that Figma projects can be shared online and worked on collaboratively.<\/p>\n<p>There are also plenty of other free or low cost design products like <a href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/en\/\">Inkspace<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">GIMP<\/a> there is a pretty thorough list available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/free-alternatives-photoshop-illustrator-lightroom\/\">this<\/a> link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-426\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma-695x391.png 695w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma-267x150.png 267w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/files\/2017\/08\/figma.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone that is about to lose access to my Temple sponsored software one of the things I\u2019m going to miss the most is Adobe Illustrator (AI). The Cartographic Design requirement for the PSM in GIS really made it clear how a few simple image adjustments using a program like Illustrator can make a map [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}