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ColorSuckr Print and Web designers and illustrators often want to extract one or more colors from an image. Typically, it’s a tedious process of clicking the Eyedropper tool to pick up the desired color, switching to the Swatches panel, and creating and naming a new swatch, or hovering the Eyedropper tool over pixels and writing […]
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Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released on August 28. It’s now been out for two months. Is it time for InDesign users to install it?
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Flickr user madmolecule took the shot below with a matchbox pinhole camera loaded with 200 speed 35mm Fuji film. Exposure was “maybe a minute or two — I’ve given up trying to use a stopwatch; I just eyeball it now.” So that vignetting you see is the real thing, not software trickery. If you’re not […]
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Press release A few months after unveiling the public beta, Elpical has released the final version of Claro Layout. With Claro Layout, print and publishing professionals working with Adobe® InDesign® now get access to Elpical’s Claro technology for optimizing images inside their documents, without leaving their trusted environment. Spotlight on the creative part Claro Layout […]
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Here are some of the courses recently unveiled at online training provider Lynda.com: Photo Assignment: Backlit Portraits With Derrick Story Watch a trailer. Photo Assignment: Backlit Portraits is an interactive video course in which participating photographers can view and discuss each other’s work. Professional photographer Derrick Story shows how to make onsite adjustments in a […]
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Sure, you already know how to use Photoshop’s crop tool to remove the edges of a photograph. And you probably know how to use it to straighten an image. But did you know that the crop tool can temporarily hide portions of an image that you can later restore? Watch and learn! For the full-size […]
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Press release Safari Books Online, the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media, and business professionals, announced today the launch of Safari Books Online 6.0. This release features ground breaking advancements in the product offering, including exciting new functionality such as an interactive reading experience; dynamic content categorization; innovative community and collaboration features; and […]
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Q. You’ve written about figures in Open Type fonts, both oldstyle and lining variants and tabular and proportional spacing. But I have trouble figuring out which fonts have which. Can you help unravel this numerical mystery? A. I understand your confusion. Many type designers and foundries include more than one style of numeral in their […]
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