View Full Version : have you ever noticed/wondered
mkaake
Sep 13, 2003, 10:34 AM
have you ever wondered what program apple uses to make all of it's fancy smancy graphs on it's web pages? is that just from a graphics program do you think, or is it from a spreadsheet program? i was just poking around apple.com today and started thinking more and more about how keynote was used at the keynotes for quite a while but no-one picked up on it... could they be doing the same thing here, or am i just desperate for a rumor between all of these power book guesses?
matt
LimeLite
Sep 13, 2003, 12:44 PM
Um, what would be from a spreadsheet program?
ColoJohnBoy
Sep 13, 2003, 01:21 PM
Desperate. Definitely.
mrjamin
Sep 13, 2003, 07:33 PM
you can achieve all the stuff on the apple site in photoshop with a plugin or two (the glass one from AlienSkin will do all kinds of cool stuff), or even illustrator in the right pair of hands
Freg3000
Sep 14, 2003, 11:28 AM
I always liked the Apple graphs, especially the new ones. They are just so typical Apple.
But I don't know what they use to make them. :(
stoid
Sep 14, 2003, 12:08 PM
They've found yet another application of the "Aqua" theme that just looks sooo good!
Maybe that's how they do it, a subset of they've interface builder developer system??
redAPPLE
Sep 14, 2003, 12:56 PM
hmmm... i guess i surf Apple.com less often these days.
which graphs? link?
iGav
Sep 14, 2003, 01:40 PM
Originally posted by mrjamin
you can achieve all the stuff on the apple site in photoshop with a plugin or two (the glass one from AlienSkin will do all kinds of cool stuff), or even illustrator in the right pair of hands
You don't even need a plug-in to achieve the 'Aqua' look... when I used to teach Multimedia, the 'Aqua' look was the most requested "How can we do that??" question....
I spent so much time explaining to people why they shouldn't rip it off just for styles sake... suffice to say, come the end of a project 2/3 of all the projects handed in would use some kind of 'Aquafied' graphics in their work... :rolleyes: :p :p
mkaake
Sep 14, 2003, 06:17 PM
Originally posted by redAPPLE
hmmm... i guess i surf Apple.com less often these days.
which graphs? link?
lil to lazy to link, but try any of the G5 pages...
i know you could do stuff with that in photoshop, but it just kinda struck me as i was looking at one of them (not only, man, those look ten times better than excel) i thought about how keynote was used before our eyes for some time without us ever noticing...
*sigh*
and yes, i am desperate.
matt
mkaake
Sep 14, 2003, 06:21 PM
Originally posted by LimeLite
Um, what would be from a spreadsheet program?
you ever use excel?
if it wasn't a ps job, then there's usually a table associated with said graph...
matt
bennetsaysargh
Sep 14, 2003, 06:50 PM
i remember something about apple and filemaker. does filemaker mak graphs? if not, they probably are using thier own app that they're keeping from us again;)
omnigraffle?
Powerbook G5
Sep 14, 2003, 08:13 PM
They also use a secret Apple corporate only program to both design their new products and a lotto system to randomly generate a release date for a certain product. That's why we don't have new PowerBooks, because Steve picked a date that is for sometime in the late future. Damn, how the lotto sucks!
bennetsaysargh
Sep 14, 2003, 08:18 PM
i think we should have a cheese fest every other month. it gives me a chance to suck the helium out of balloons!:p
oops. wrong window. i think we should have a new apple release every other month so i can suck the helium out of balloons!:p
hayesk
Sep 17, 2003, 07:34 AM
Shhh! It's the spreadsheet component of Apple's upcoming MS Office killer - iOffice.
Just kidding, I think it's a photoshop job. They took a real graph, aquified the bars, and put in a G5-looking background.
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