Category: Software
Illustrator for Fashion Design in Lynda.com
Lynda.com is constantly coming out with more and more tutorials and one specifically caught my eye today on using Adobe Illustrator for fashion design. Two new courses are now available: Illustrator for Fashion Design: Drawing Flats walks you through drawing shirts, pants, skirts, and more, using custom brushes and symbols. Illustrator for Fashion Design: Creating [...]
365 Days for Windows XP
Windows XP users be warned that Microsoft will no longer provide support for the 2001 operating system after April 8th, 2014. After this point, security updates and fixes will no longer be pushed out. More information can be found on this TechCrunch post. Microsoft is suggesting those still using the XP OS should upgrade to [...]
Adobe Creative Suite – InDesign
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: Do the computers in the library have InDesign, on Adobe Creative Suite? Sincerely, Pamela Mufson Hi Pamela! All of the computers on the 4th, 5th, and 6th floor do have Adobe Creative Suite, which include InDesign. If you would ever like to check on other available software, there is [...]
Lynda.com for FIT Alumni
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: Will the Lynda.com upgrade be available to graduating seniors of 2012 later on? Or will it only be available to current students? Thanks, Rony Patzan Answer: Hi Rony, Thanks so much for your email, we are pretty excited about the upgrade with Lynda.com and are glad to hear that [...]
Computer Labs
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: Which Labs have Autocad? What are these labs’ hours and do they have a phone number where you can reach someone? Thank you, Ceci Thompson Answer: Hello Ceci, All the labs including CC15 and CC15a have Autocad. The classroom labs which are C227 through C232 all have specific [...]
Trial Version – Revit
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: Question: I was told in my autocad class that we could get a trial version of revit for students, can you tell me where to find it? -Ellen Lynch Answer: Although rivet is currently installed in the c229 lab, the college does not currently provide the software. It sounds [...]
Adobe Acrobat for Mac
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: Hi, I was wondering where the “Print To Adobe PDF” option disappeared to on the macs. Its only giving me the option of printing FIT Color and FIT Bw now. I have been on the computers in both the C lab and library now and none of them are [...]
Webfiles Troubleshooting: November 1st from 7:00am-7:30am
Attention: FIT Community We are continuing to experience slow response time with Webfiles. We are in continual communication with the software developers and hope to resolve the issue soon. To continue the troubleshooting process, we need to disable Webfiles on Nov.1 from 7:00am-7:30am. During this time Webfiles will be unavailable. All other technology services will [...]
Acrobat Professional X
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: Hi there! I am a faculty member in the Fashion Design Dept. For some reason, when FIT provided the disk for CS5 last year, Acrobat Professional was not included. I use Acrobat 8.3.1 (which was provided by the college in 2008 with CS3) to create all of my classroom [...]
Anti-Virus Software
Ask IT: Question & Answer Forum: I do want to learn photoshop and is there any classes in this school available for me to develop my interest. And I have look up angel, it needs to pay for the videos online. Besides,could you send me a kapasperky anti-virus program with code key to my email. [...]
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