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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

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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Automatically Analyze and Enhance Images in InDesign

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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New Lynda.com Courses on Photography & Social Media Marketing

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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Safari Books Online Enhances On-Demand Digital Library’s Functionality & Usability

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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TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

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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