Want to create a fun reflective appearance in InDesign – without having to crank up Photoshop? It’s easy; here’s how to create a vertical reflection (resembling an image sitting on a shiny surface, or being reflected in water): About the photo: It’s not fake. It’s not the unnatural offspring of Mick Jagger and a crab. […]
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Just noticed that the Adobe InDesign CS4 Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam is now live at the PearsonVue website. That’s the one for Certification (if you haven’t taken the test before… the one you have to take at an actual testing center) — I’m told that the RE-certification exam will be available shortly (perhaps next […]
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Laying out a document in facing pages isn’t that hard. Displaying it as facing pages in a PDF often requires a small trick.
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Quark Inc. has announced the release of the QuarkXPress® 8.02 update, available immediately to existing customers for download and as a free 60-day Test Drive. The release improves the installation experience, adds user interface localization for five additional languages, and builds on the rock-solid performance and reliability that customers are already experiencing with QuarkXPress 8 […]
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The 2009 Layer Tennis design tournament will kick off on Friday, Feb. 6, at 3 p.m. Eastern Time. Produced by Coudal Partners, Layer Tennis (originally named Photoshop Tennis) is a series of live online design events where creative professionals swap files back and forth in real time while a third party offers play-by-play commentary. This […]
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The TV commercial “Marlene” for cellular service Net10 is #1 on AdCracker.com’s annual list of the world’s 10 best advertisements. “The genius of ‘Marlene’ is that it connects emotionally with the audience and leverages that emotion to attack the competition,” said Steve McNamara, AdCracker.com’s Creative Director. “The spot is part of the aggressively competitive ‘No […]
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KavaSoft has released HyperImage 2, an application for downloading web photo galleries. There are millions of images on the web, but how do you download them without clicking on them one at a time? HyperImage is the solution: an industrial-strength tool for downloading entire websites worth of pictures all at once. Just point HyperImage to […]
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Theoretically, if you’re doing everything right, you should never see this icon appear on one of your workflow stories: If you see a scary red stop sign icon (it’s a hexagon, I checked) on a workflow story, instead of the usual globe or pencil, it means the story’s link is missing — neither InDesign nor […]
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Need to draw a black line over a dark image? David shows one quick and easy method that works every time.
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