Kindle Apps for Artists & Designers

Compare the best apps for designers with personal reviews of programs for handling documents, drawing and sketching, photo editing, and games - and many of the apps are free. The new Kindle Fire HDX is the perfect tool for visual artists, graphic designers, architects and engineers. Use these apps to get to a new level in your business and closer to the ideal paperless office.

Learn how the Kindle Fire changed the way we do business.

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The Kindle paid for itself after the first two meetings by helping us land a new design job. With no effort, the Kindle surfed through a demonstration website and quickly accessed dozens of documents in memory during the presentation. It's not a replacement for a desktop computer - we still need a real keyboard and mouse for complex software like Photoshop and AutoCAD. Having a wi-fi enabled android computer makes it easy to carry drawings and documents to meetings on a mobile device that's no bigger than a paperback book.

Much more than an e-book reader, the New Kindle Fire HDX gives you all the benefits of a tablet computer by leveraging the power of fast, cloud computing with ready access to the complete line of digital products from Amazon, subsidized by the low base-price of the machine.

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Getting work done with Kindle Fire

Use these apps everyday for the most common office tasks. Replace the standard Kindle browser with Dolphin for faster page speeds, and move between pages with gestures for even faster surfing. The Kindle browser can also read PDF files, but using the free Adobe Reader app gives you more control over documents and hyperlinks.

Quickoffice Pro lets you view and edit Microsoft Office documents including Powerpoint presentations with all the tools available on the desktop program. This app lets you get some real work done on your tablet computer when you're on the road. Idea Tree is another productivity app for writers and anyone who needs to organize ideas into a logical sequence.

You know how the very document that you need for a meeting is always back at the office? Evernote is the most useful way to keep track of all your documents and approach the ideal of the paperless office. Applications like Evernote and Dropbox give you access to your documents anytime, anywhere. We give our clients access to important documents using the same Evernote account.

Skitch is a sister program to Evernote for making quick drawings and adding annotations on photos with unique arrow-head lines, text and basic shapes.

There are dozens of free drawing apps for kids and casual users, to professional illustrators and artists. The best free drawing apps below are ranked by the number of features available and the ease of using the menu system to change your drawing tools and access other commands.

Very easy menu system with quick access to advanced tools and preset styles. Buy the full application to get a total of 45 natural-brush styles and basic shape tools, paint bucket, eraser and text tools. This is the only app that lets you add layers to the drawing, toggle layer visibility or adjust transparency (alpha channel).

Use Wi-Fi or a wired connection to send photos to your Kindle Gallery, or send photos via email (typically sent to first.lastname@kindle.com). Most apps let you share documents on Facebook, Twitter and via email .

These are my favorite game apps for Kindle Fire for the down time necessary for designers just to put your mind on another task for a while. After a few minutes playing a game, you can go back to work in a different gear, and creative ideas can come to you.

Perfect games for would-be civil engineers and architects by using simple structural design principals to make things that withstand the force of gravity.