ANIMA is the 3d people animation application developed specifically for architects and designers, ideal for creating amazing 3d animated people quickly and easily!
Yoink 3.5.9 Multilingual macOS 28 mb Yoink simplifies and improves drag and drop between windows, apps, spaces and fullscreen apps. The app has been repeatedly featured by on the Mac App Store in numerous categories and was recommended by John Gruber of DaringFireball and Federico Viticci of MacStories. Yoink 3.2.5 is available for purchase on the Mac App Store for the price of $6.99 / £4.99 / €6,99. It is a free update for existing customers of the app. It is a free update for existing customers of the app.
ANIMA LITE is free to use even commercially to create still renderings and animations. It has no limits if you only use Metropoly® Ready-Posed assets. To use anima with Metropoly® Rigged models, the PRO version removes all limitations.AXYZ design ANIMA Overview:
anima® 4 introduces a new and unique hyper-realistic 4d people animation system that includes facial gestures and clothing movements. anima® 4 is the people and crowd animation application developed specifically for architects and designers that will help you create amazing 3d animated people quickly and easily!Yoink Improved Drag And Drop 3 5 45
Human characters in 3D scenes are becoming more important than ever in visualizations, animations and illustrations. Character animation is a very specialized area and because of its complexity, most of this type of work is time consuming and traditionally restricted to very advanced users or specialists, leaving virtually no access to for the majority of users,but now anima® changes all of that!1- STILL RENDERS & ANIMATIONS : anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.
2- RAMPS, STAIRS, ESCALATORS, MOVING WALKWAYS : With its easy-to-use motion editing tools, anima® enables you to create actors that walk, run, navigate slopes, ride escalators, tackle moving walkways and climb stairs realistically. Whatever your scene's topology, you can add crowd animated characters that explore every corner.
3- PHOTOREAL CROWDS AT THE CLICK OF A BUTTON: Anima® uses the same high quality 3D people found in our Metropoly collections, so there's no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations
4- IRREGULAR TERRAIN: Thanks to anima®'s adaptive placement, area and walkway tools, crowd actors can walk, run and stand on nearly any surface. Just define an area and the actors are projected onto the background geometry. Press play and animations adapt automatically to the terrain for flawless integration.
5- CHARACTERS THAT STAND, SIT, CHEER AND MORE: Fill scenes with standing and seated characters using an extensive range of animations, or import more from 3rd party sources. Characters can move from walkways to fixed areas to socialise.
6- YOUR OWN CHARACTERS AND MOTIONS: Users are not limited to the bundled content. Using anima®'s crowd editing tools it's easy to import and use 3rd party rigged characters and motion capture data.
7- NATIVE PLUGINS FOR 3DS MAX, CINEMA 4D & UNREAL ENGINE!: Work seamlessly with your favorite 3D modeling and rendering tool within a few clicks. Our native plugins will import, manage and optimize textures and meshes while applying ready-to-render materials in just seconds!.
8- TOP INDUSTRY STANDARD EXPORTERS: Import sophisticated and complex crowd animations with ease in your favorite 3D modeling through FBX, OpenCollada or V-Ray Scene formats with our built-in exporter!.
9- EXPLORE REAL-TIME WITH UNREAL ENGINE!: Create mind-blowing unreal immersive experiences populated with realistic animated characters and discover human scale perception as you never did before!.
AXYZ design ANIMA Workflow:
1- MODEL: Define walking surfaces, obstacles and collision geometries for your simulation directly in 3ds Max® or Cinema 4D® and send them to anima® within a click while working and refining your visualization project animations!
2- GATHER: Populate your visualization projects either using anima® Stand-Alone to create complex crowd simulations, or accessing hundreds of realistic 3D Human directly from 3ds Max®, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine through anima® Drag & Drop panel.
3- SYNCHRONIZE: Through a solid live linking, anima alive will automatically keep projects, geometries and cameras synchronized with 3ds Max and Cinema 4D for a quick smooth workflow and perfect control of your crowd simulations and character placement.
4- RENDER: anima® will convert and optimize Metropoly Rigged, Ready-Posed or any third party 3D people model to output realistic images or animations using the most advanced renderers in the industry such as V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Arnold, Maxwell
AXYZ design ANIMA 3.5 Features:
anima® came to the market in June 2016 and after several updates it has been acclaimed as the best solution for quickly and easily creating stunning 3D animations in very little time. Anima® is now the first Archviz population tool available for Epic Unreal Engine®, 3ds Max® and Cinema 4D® to help architects, designers and 3D professionals bring hundreds of realistic 3D characters into their scenes.The new version includes alive™, an innovative technology that establishes a link between your 3D modeling software and anima® allowing a smooth workflow while working and refining your animations.
- IMPROVED INTERFACE: Now you can see a blueprint of the default anima® actor and it's bone structure in Editing Mode, so you can use it as a reference to adjust any imported motion clip or actor pose. UI style improvements have been made across the board.
- NEW BAKING PROCESS: Now you can bake animations at anytime. There no need to wait to cache all the simulation before activating the bake, you can do it directly and anima® will start the cache automatically if the timeline still hasn't been cached before.
- NEW alive™ CONNECTION: Through an advanced IPC linking anima® synchronizes automatically with the 3dsMax and Cinema4D plugins keeping cameras, animations, materials and collision backgrounds updated improving your workflow drastically.
- IMPROVED WORKFLOW : Added support for multiple toggles when multiple nodes are selected in the Scene Node Tree. Improved responsiveness with large scenes due to an optimized way to handle tool editions that avoids bottlenecks and unneeded viewport updates. IMPROVED ACTOR AND ANIMATION IMPORTER: Improved compatibility with third party characters (iClone, RenderPeople, HumanAlloy and more…) IMPROVED ACTOR LIBRARY: Re-calibrated skin and material tones for all the actors available for anima®.
anima® is the fastest stand-alone character animation application developed especially for architects and designers, it's perfect for quickly and easily creating stunning 3D animations in very little time. Our motion editing tools and high quality content make 3D character animation easy and affordable and enables creative and technical artists to take on demanding animation intensive projects. Anima® 3D character animation software is designed to slash production time on 3D human character animation for architectural visualizations and full motion video, and provide high quality interactive visualizations within the 3D Viewport and an intuitive toolset for creating real time simulations. Anima® works with your existing workflow, importing animations into your favorite professional 3D modeling & rendering package is really simple using our native plugins!Creating complex character animation scenes for your architectural productions has never been so easy!
Anima 3.5 animations Tutorial
1- Time Remapping Effects (Slow-Motion & Time Lapse): Time Remapping Effects NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. Sometimes you might need to create slow motion or time-lapse effects to create a stronger visual impact.
2- Prepare a Motion Clip Using Biped or a Generic model: Prepare a Motion Clip Using Biped or a Generic model Open 3ds Max. Either create a biped rig using the instructions in Biped Creation Workflow, load the Generic Male or Generic Female characters that you can download from here, or use any Metropoly rigged character.
3- Prepare a Motion Clip using Mixamo: Prepare a Motion Clip using Mixamo Mixamo is an online service for automatically rigging characters and preparing and downloading Motion Clips. It is currently free for anyone with an Adobe ID.
4- Using Categories and Tags: Tags and categories help to to organize your resources and tell the system how to match appropriate motion clips to characters. Tags are used to define the attributes of actors. Examples might include age, gender, ethnicity type of dress etc.
5- Importing Motion Clips: In addition to being able to extend anima® with additional Characters, you can also import your own motion clips. Motion clips should be applied to an anima® compatible rig and imported using the FBX format.
6- Bake Animations: Why bake animations? Anima is a true simulator, this means that as you add or edit actors, motions, walkways, areas and so on the different elements act like dominoes, interacting with one another in ways that are not always predictable.
Anima EXPORTERS
- Export actors in T-pose: If you want to use any actor outside anima®, you can easily export it to FBX in T-pose following this process: Start a new empty scene and drag'n'drop any actor you want to export.- Collada Exporter: Collada Exporter NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. When you are done working in Anima and you need to export your scene to be opened in a different 3d software, please follow these steps: Access the main menu in the upper right corner of the Anima screen.
- FBX Exporter: Fbx Exporter NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. When you are done working in Anima and you need to export your scene into another 3D program, you can use the following steps. Open the main menu from the Anima icon in the upper left corner of the Anima window
- V-Ray scene Exporter: V-Ray Scene Exporter NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. When you are done working in Anima and you need to export your scene to be opened in a different 3d software, please follow these steps: Access the main menu in the upper right corner of the Anima screen.
Anima PLUGIN WORKFLOWS
- Using the Anima plugin for Unreal Engine: Make sure to have a look at the new features in anima® 3.5 documentation where you'll find more information and updated video tutorials about the workflow improvements with the alive™ connection.- Linking Props inside C4D: Linking Props NOTES: Import your anima® scene, and also import or create the objects that you want to attach to the characters. To import your anima® scene please go to Using the anima® plugin for C4D document.
- Linking Props inside 3DSMax: Linking Props NOTES: Import your anima® scene into 3DS Max. You may either create new objects in 3DS Max or import existing objects that you'll want to link to your anima® characters. To import your anima® scene please go to Using the anima® plugin for 3ds Max document.
- Using the Anima plugin for Cinema 4D and 3ds Max : Please check the above quick start video
ANIMA 4.0.1
Yoink 3.5.9 Multilingual macOS 28 mb Yoink simplifies and improves drag and drop between windows, apps, spaces and fullscreen apps. The app has been repeatedly featured by on the Mac App Store in numerous categories and was recommended by John Gruber of DaringFireball and Federico Viticci of MacStories. Yoink 3.2.5 is available for purchase on the Mac App Store for the price of $6.99 / £4.99 / €6,99. It is a free update for existing customers of the app. It is a free update for existing customers of the app.
ANIMA LITE is free to use even commercially to create still renderings and animations. It has no limits if you only use Metropoly® Ready-Posed assets. To use anima with Metropoly® Rigged models, the PRO version removes all limitations.AXYZ design ANIMA Overview:
anima® 4 introduces a new and unique hyper-realistic 4d people animation system that includes facial gestures and clothing movements. anima® 4 is the people and crowd animation application developed specifically for architects and designers that will help you create amazing 3d animated people quickly and easily!Yoink Improved Drag And Drop 3 5 45
Human characters in 3D scenes are becoming more important than ever in visualizations, animations and illustrations. Character animation is a very specialized area and because of its complexity, most of this type of work is time consuming and traditionally restricted to very advanced users or specialists, leaving virtually no access to for the majority of users,but now anima® changes all of that!1- STILL RENDERS & ANIMATIONS : anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.
2- RAMPS, STAIRS, ESCALATORS, MOVING WALKWAYS : With its easy-to-use motion editing tools, anima® enables you to create actors that walk, run, navigate slopes, ride escalators, tackle moving walkways and climb stairs realistically. Whatever your scene's topology, you can add crowd animated characters that explore every corner.
3- PHOTOREAL CROWDS AT THE CLICK OF A BUTTON: Anima® uses the same high quality 3D people found in our Metropoly collections, so there's no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations
4- IRREGULAR TERRAIN: Thanks to anima®'s adaptive placement, area and walkway tools, crowd actors can walk, run and stand on nearly any surface. Just define an area and the actors are projected onto the background geometry. Press play and animations adapt automatically to the terrain for flawless integration.
5- CHARACTERS THAT STAND, SIT, CHEER AND MORE: Fill scenes with standing and seated characters using an extensive range of animations, or import more from 3rd party sources. Characters can move from walkways to fixed areas to socialise.
6- YOUR OWN CHARACTERS AND MOTIONS: Users are not limited to the bundled content. Using anima®'s crowd editing tools it's easy to import and use 3rd party rigged characters and motion capture data.
7- NATIVE PLUGINS FOR 3DS MAX, CINEMA 4D & UNREAL ENGINE!: Work seamlessly with your favorite 3D modeling and rendering tool within a few clicks. Our native plugins will import, manage and optimize textures and meshes while applying ready-to-render materials in just seconds!.
8- TOP INDUSTRY STANDARD EXPORTERS: Import sophisticated and complex crowd animations with ease in your favorite 3D modeling through FBX, OpenCollada or V-Ray Scene formats with our built-in exporter!.
9- EXPLORE REAL-TIME WITH UNREAL ENGINE!: Create mind-blowing unreal immersive experiences populated with realistic animated characters and discover human scale perception as you never did before!.
AXYZ design ANIMA Workflow:
1- MODEL: Define walking surfaces, obstacles and collision geometries for your simulation directly in 3ds Max® or Cinema 4D® and send them to anima® within a click while working and refining your visualization project animations!
2- GATHER: Populate your visualization projects either using anima® Stand-Alone to create complex crowd simulations, or accessing hundreds of realistic 3D Human directly from 3ds Max®, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine through anima® Drag & Drop panel.
3- SYNCHRONIZE: Through a solid live linking, anima alive will automatically keep projects, geometries and cameras synchronized with 3ds Max and Cinema 4D for a quick smooth workflow and perfect control of your crowd simulations and character placement.
4- RENDER: anima® will convert and optimize Metropoly Rigged, Ready-Posed or any third party 3D people model to output realistic images or animations using the most advanced renderers in the industry such as V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Arnold, Maxwell
AXYZ design ANIMA 3.5 Features:
anima® came to the market in June 2016 and after several updates it has been acclaimed as the best solution for quickly and easily creating stunning 3D animations in very little time. Anima® is now the first Archviz population tool available for Epic Unreal Engine®, 3ds Max® and Cinema 4D® to help architects, designers and 3D professionals bring hundreds of realistic 3D characters into their scenes.The new version includes alive™, an innovative technology that establishes a link between your 3D modeling software and anima® allowing a smooth workflow while working and refining your animations.
- IMPROVED INTERFACE: Now you can see a blueprint of the default anima® actor and it's bone structure in Editing Mode, so you can use it as a reference to adjust any imported motion clip or actor pose. UI style improvements have been made across the board.
- NEW BAKING PROCESS: Now you can bake animations at anytime. There no need to wait to cache all the simulation before activating the bake, you can do it directly and anima® will start the cache automatically if the timeline still hasn't been cached before.
- NEW alive™ CONNECTION: Through an advanced IPC linking anima® synchronizes automatically with the 3dsMax and Cinema4D plugins keeping cameras, animations, materials and collision backgrounds updated improving your workflow drastically.
- IMPROVED WORKFLOW : Added support for multiple toggles when multiple nodes are selected in the Scene Node Tree. Improved responsiveness with large scenes due to an optimized way to handle tool editions that avoids bottlenecks and unneeded viewport updates. IMPROVED ACTOR AND ANIMATION IMPORTER: Improved compatibility with third party characters (iClone, RenderPeople, HumanAlloy and more…) IMPROVED ACTOR LIBRARY: Re-calibrated skin and material tones for all the actors available for anima®.
anima® is the fastest stand-alone character animation application developed especially for architects and designers, it's perfect for quickly and easily creating stunning 3D animations in very little time. Our motion editing tools and high quality content make 3D character animation easy and affordable and enables creative and technical artists to take on demanding animation intensive projects. Anima® 3D character animation software is designed to slash production time on 3D human character animation for architectural visualizations and full motion video, and provide high quality interactive visualizations within the 3D Viewport and an intuitive toolset for creating real time simulations. Anima® works with your existing workflow, importing animations into your favorite professional 3D modeling & rendering package is really simple using our native plugins!Creating complex character animation scenes for your architectural productions has never been so easy!
Anima 3.5 animations Tutorial
1- Time Remapping Effects (Slow-Motion & Time Lapse): Time Remapping Effects NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. Sometimes you might need to create slow motion or time-lapse effects to create a stronger visual impact.
2- Prepare a Motion Clip Using Biped or a Generic model: Prepare a Motion Clip Using Biped or a Generic model Open 3ds Max. Either create a biped rig using the instructions in Biped Creation Workflow, load the Generic Male or Generic Female characters that you can download from here, or use any Metropoly rigged character.
3- Prepare a Motion Clip using Mixamo: Prepare a Motion Clip using Mixamo Mixamo is an online service for automatically rigging characters and preparing and downloading Motion Clips. It is currently free for anyone with an Adobe ID.
4- Using Categories and Tags: Tags and categories help to to organize your resources and tell the system how to match appropriate motion clips to characters. Tags are used to define the attributes of actors. Examples might include age, gender, ethnicity type of dress etc.
5- Importing Motion Clips: In addition to being able to extend anima® with additional Characters, you can also import your own motion clips. Motion clips should be applied to an anima® compatible rig and imported using the FBX format.
6- Bake Animations: Why bake animations? Anima is a true simulator, this means that as you add or edit actors, motions, walkways, areas and so on the different elements act like dominoes, interacting with one another in ways that are not always predictable.
Anima EXPORTERS
- Export actors in T-pose: If you want to use any actor outside anima®, you can easily export it to FBX in T-pose following this process: Start a new empty scene and drag'n'drop any actor you want to export.- Collada Exporter: Collada Exporter NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. When you are done working in Anima and you need to export your scene to be opened in a different 3d software, please follow these steps: Access the main menu in the upper right corner of the Anima screen.
- FBX Exporter: Fbx Exporter NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. When you are done working in Anima and you need to export your scene into another 3D program, you can use the following steps. Open the main menu from the Anima icon in the upper left corner of the Anima window
- V-Ray scene Exporter: V-Ray Scene Exporter NOTES: We recommend that you bake your animations before exporting your scene. When you are done working in Anima and you need to export your scene to be opened in a different 3d software, please follow these steps: Access the main menu in the upper right corner of the Anima screen.
Anima PLUGIN WORKFLOWS
- Using the Anima plugin for Unreal Engine: Make sure to have a look at the new features in anima® 3.5 documentation where you'll find more information and updated video tutorials about the workflow improvements with the alive™ connection.- Linking Props inside C4D: Linking Props NOTES: Import your anima® scene, and also import or create the objects that you want to attach to the characters. To import your anima® scene please go to Using the anima® plugin for C4D document.
- Linking Props inside 3DSMax: Linking Props NOTES: Import your anima® scene into 3DS Max. You may either create new objects in 3DS Max or import existing objects that you'll want to link to your anima® characters. To import your anima® scene please go to Using the anima® plugin for 3ds Max document.
- Using the Anima plugin for Cinema 4D and 3ds Max : Please check the above quick start video
ANIMA 4.0.1
A NEW UPDATE IS HERE! Without rest, and after a long effort to launch anima 4 a few days ago, here we bring you again an update. Thanks to your comments and your intense collaboration, we have been able to quickly resolve some bugs you reported and include some new features.NEW FEATURES:
anima®:'Download' and 'Update' options will now show up from the right-click menu on multiple selections of actors even if the clicked actor does not support it.
3DS Max® Plugin:
* Added support for 3DS Max® 2021.
* Material improvements for V-Ray and Corona renderers.
Cinema4D® Plugin:
* V-Ray materials can now be previewed in the viewport.
UE4® Plugin:
* Motion Blur and TAA support for 4D actors has been added. To activate it, you must enable the 'Accurate velocities from Vertex Deformation' option in your project's settings. The name of this option is likely to change in future UE4® versions. Check the documentation for further details.
Maya® Plugin:
* Added an additional transform node between animaSceneRoot and all the anima® objects for a better organization in the Outliner.
* Added automatic detection and unpacking support on scene load for anipack files.
BUGFIXES:
anima®:* Some of the new messages have been changed.
* Fixed a rare crash caused when using alive™ due to an interface error.
* Version updates downloaded from the application are now verified further to ensure they're not corrupt.
* Fixed an issue where the video preview capture would generate a corrupt file if a camera with an aspect ratio different than 16:9 was active at the same time.
* Fixed an issue where the simplified boxes for actors would show up when toggling a camera active.
* Fixed an issue where an incorrect message would appear when detecting new available product downloads from your account.
* Fixed an issue where activating or deactivating an anima® license while the anima® plugin is active would require to restart said plugin for the license to work properly.
* Fixed an issue on the FBX exporter where rigged and ambient actor animations would not export correctly.
3DS Max® Plugin:
* Fixed an issue where ambient actors could not be dropped as ready-posed models from the drag and drop panel directly into the application.
* Fixed an issue where bump maps would show up incorrectly for 4D actors in combination with V-Ray.
Cinema4D® Plugin:
* Fixed an issue where the background components would not be transferred properly to anima® when using alive™ in the recent versions of Cinema4D®.
* Fixed an issue where ambient actors could not be dropped as ready-posed models from the drag and drop panel directly into the application.
Maya® Plugin:
* Fixed an issue where the program would not retrieve the anima® path correctly from the registry if it was installed and used from separate Windows user accounts.
* Fixed an issue where incorrect messages would appear when importing scenes with baked animations.
* Fixed the anipack command available for use in the MEL scripting language.
* Fixed an issue that would appear when the same actor was imported several times from the Asset Browser dialog.
UE4® Plugin:
*Fixed an issue where ambient actors could not be dropped as ready-posed models from the drag and drop panel directly into the application.
anima® 4 download
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Conclusion
To conclude ANIMA works on Windows operating system and can be easily downloaded using the below download link according to Demo license. ANIMA download file is only 477 MB in size.ANIMA was filed under the 3D Design category and was reviewed in softlookup.com and receive 5/5 Score.
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Eternal Storms Software's Yoink is a powerful enhancement to the standard drag-and-drop experience on the Mac that you don't realize you need until you've spent an hour or two using it. Then you wish you had been using it for a lot longer than that.
In short, Yoink acts as a temporary holding spot for items you drag and drop from the Finder or any other app, letting you store them for use later in other applications.
Think of Yoink like a virtual shelf for your Mac. Drag files or other items to it and they sit there, right at hand, until you're ready to drag them off the shelf and into another app or folder.
The first time you open Yoink, it walks you through a brief tutorial explaining how the app works and what kinds of files it accepts. Close the tutorial window and the only thing letting you know that Yoink is running is its icon in your menu bar. You can use the menu bar menu to change settings, but you don't need it to use the Yoink app. Instead, Yoink activates as soon as you start dragging anything on your Mac, displaying a small drawer into which you can drop whatever it is you're dragging.
Yoink can handle most anything you drag to it. I added text from a word processing document, images dragged from Web pages, pictures from Photos, entire Web pages, and files from the Finder. I didn't find anything Yoink couldn't collect.
By default, Yoink displays only the last three items you've dropped on it. Using either the menu bar or a pop-up menu that appears when you click the gear button in the app, you can customize Yoink so its window expands until it reaches the top and bottom of your screen with each added item. Regardless of window size, you can continue adding items, you'll just have to scroll up or down in the drawer to find the one you want to use.
Reelpath bounceit and glimmer 1 0 4 download free. Unfortunately, Yoink lacks some way of letting you know that there are more files in the window than you can see. This is in part because macOS doesn't display scroll bars by default, but Yoink would benefit from something that lets you know there's more in the drawer than meets the eye.
Yoink's drawer remains visible as long as there's something in it, and you can choose whether it appears on the left or right edge of your screen, aligned to the top, center, or bottom of that edge.
Yoink works with multiple screens, but exactly how depends on the 'Displays have separate Spaces' checkbox in System Preferences > Mission Control. If that checkbox isn't selected, Yoink's drawer appears only on the primary screen, which can result in some tedious dragging across long distances. However, if you select that checkbox, Yoink can put its drawer in any of its six positions on any screen. The trick is to access the necessary Window Position menu from the menu bar icon located on the desired screen.
Regardless, those with large Desktops might prefer to use Yoink's option to display its drawer right under the pointer's position when you start a drag.
Also, Yoink sits on top of everything else on your Desktop, so if you find that it's in your way, press F5 (you can change the key) to make it hide or reappear. If you've set Yoink to appear at the pointer position, another press or two of F5 brings up it at the pointer, making it easy to drag items to Yoink without looking for the drawer.
Using items you've added to Yoink is easy. All you need to do is drag them from Yoink's drawer to the app, folder, or document where you want to use them. By default, when you drag something out of Yoink, it disappears from the Yoink drawer. But you can also lock items so they remain in Yoink after you've dragged them, which might be useful for frequently used bits of text or graphics.
Yoink can display either file icons or Quick Look previews in its drawer, and you can click an eye button to peek at the contents of any item in the drawer. You can also share any item in Yoink to available apps.
It's important to note that files dragged from Yoink to anything, whether it's an app or a Finder folder, behave the same way they would if you were dragging normally without Yoink as an intermediary. So, drag a document from Yoink to Apple Mail and Mail attaches a copy of the original to the current message. Drag a file in Yoink's drawer to a folder in the Finder and that item will be moved from its original Finder location to the location where you dragged it. Drag that same item to a server or external drive and it will be copiedto that new location.
A click of the broom button in Yoink's drawer empties any items in it, but if you accidentally sweep Yoink clean, the Yoink menu includes an option to 'Bring back last removed files,' which will restore your dragged items.
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On the Yoink support site, Eternal Storms provides several tutorials and a variety of blog posts on how to make the most of Yoink. One of my favorites was about how to use Automator to create a macOS Service that automatically sends screenshots to Yoink. Another tip explains how you can add files to Yoink with akeyboard shortcut.
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If you frequently find yourself dragging things around your Mac, and particularly if you find that task onerous or prone to error, Yoink can enhance your day-to-day Mac experience. I recommend that you give it a go today. Yoink costs $6.99 from the Mac App Store, and the company provides a separate demo because the Mac App Store doesn't allow demos. It requires Mac OS X 10.7.3 Lion or later.
