One feature of GridIron Flow I’ve seen people really go nuts for is its ability to "roll back" a Photoshop document to a previous version. (Flow creates versions automatically.) I think the reason for this enthusiasm is the numerous ways in which you can inadvertently "harm" a Photoshop file - permanently altering (or deleting) data. [...]

By Daniel Brown
Sr. Evangelist, GridIron Software
“Social media” allow (if not encourage) us to be less social in the traditional sense. Instead, they provide us the “Cliff notes” of the lives of others. We each become our own P.R. teams, releasing an average of thrice-daily, carefully-worded, “press releases” related to the things we care most about [...]

By Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
An idea was born about 3 years ago, turned into drawings and schematics, then to command-line “proof-of-concepts”, to early prototypes, to a 5-month long “public beta” of a promising, if not-quite-polished, application. Now, the final result of our efforts is here;  Flow 1.0 is now available for purchase at www.gridironsoftware.com.
Flow was designed [...]

by Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
A few times a year, I step away from my computer (well, my WORK computer anyway) and head off to tropical destinations to co-teach underwater photography. The Caribbean is pretty much the oppposite of a convention center and, for a week at a time, I have sand between my toes and sunlight [...]

By Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
Some information, you want to have as quickly as possible, other news is best heard when the timing is right.
When the final episode of “M*A*S*H” aired in 1983, 105 million people watched it at once (or, those with VCR’s presumably watched it less than 48 hours later.) The anticipation of that final [...]

I should confess that I think failblog.org is probably the funniest thing on the internet. The theme of the site is taking a single word and making it say so much about what is probably a complex situation, whether it’s a still image, a screen shot, or a video clip. I strive for brevity (but [...]

by Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
If my estimates are correct, there are one quadrillion people now using Twitter and Facebook; (mysteriously, more human beings than the planet can support). Both Facebook status updates and Twitter “tweets” serve largely the same purpose – a quick message to others of one’s status (“got car washed”, “my sister had her [...]

Despite a “hesistant” (to say the least) economy, Photohop World Boston was a great event. Not the least of which because I get to see old friends such as Ben Willmore, Colin Smith of PhotoshopCafe.com fame, the mighty John Nack whose phoenix-like resurrection from the ashes of Adobe’s LiveMotion product management team to become the [...]

Canon has a new camera  - the 5D Mark II – and it is creating quite a stir. Aside from being a pretty awesome SLR camera, it also happens to shoot hi-def video. In fact, it shoots what most people (including me) consider to be breathtaking video. This little camera is doing what hundred-thousand dollar [...]

John Nack, principal product manager of Adobe Photoshop, noted in his blog today that some internal folks at Adobe are putting Flow through its paces. One designer noted that Flow had, as John puts it, “saved her bacon” (that last word varies by context and person) after she accidentally wrote over a file, and Flow [...]

By Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
My aunt is an amateur photographer, shooting primarily events at my cousin’s school as well as various other parties and gatherings. She shoots all this, mind you, with a film camera. Yes, even now. And, yes, we’ve had “the discussion” about the many benefits to “going digital”.
Now, before the hate mail comes [...]

by Daniel Brown
GridIron Software
I am, I must confess, a bit of a ham. I love getting up in front of people. Granted, I wish I was acting or singing, but my forte seems to lie in showing software.
In Los Angeles last week, I had the pleasure of showing Flow to the MGLA (Motion Graphics Los [...]

Sr. Evangelist > GridIron Software
You know the one. We all have one. It’s the digital equivalent of a “junk drawer” It’s created when that collection of “temporary” items on your desktop gets to be overwhelming (and, perhaps, a tad embarrassing). The solution? Drag it all into a folder you’ll “get to later”. These files tend [...]

Sr. Evangelist > GridIron Software
An email can be penned and sent in seconds. Longer emails (or, heaven forbid, written letters) of a more personal or important business nature should be written a bit more slowly and carefully. It’s best (I’ve found) to write a draft, go away, and return to read it again. Other documents, [...]

Sr. Evangelist > GridIron Software
There is a phrase in cooking called “mise en place”. In short, having everything organized and prepared in the right place, in the right quantities ahead of time so that, when it comes time to start actually COOKING, you’re not spending time still prepping. In cooking, and in my daily work, [...]

Sr. Evangelist > GridIron Software
Given the economic climate, more and more people are being asked to justify both time and money. Now, more than ever, efficiency is key.
Yet, for all of the power in Apple’s latest operating system, or in the much-debated Vista, the job of an OS has not been to make you productive [...]

Sr. Evangelist > GridIron Software
Hi gang, I’m Daniel Brown, Senior Evangelist with GridIron Software and I
wanted to start off our blogging section (along with Angie Taylor who is
handling things in the U.K. and Europe) by introducing myself and give some
idea of how I got “here”.
I joined GridIron Software 5 months ago (wow… time flies) after [...]