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Cosmopolitan Magazine Redesigns

Luke Hayman, Rami Moghadam, and Braulio Amado of the Pentagram design agency recently worked with Cosmopolitan‘s editor in chief and design director to give the magazine a makeover. The redesign debuts with the January 2012 issue, which just hit the newsstands. A cover before the redesign: A proposed redesign: The actual, redesigned January 2012 cover: […]

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 79

A bit of this and a bit of that… pretty soon, this information really starts to add up!

Review: Adobe Proto

Pros: Adobe’s new Proto touch app wins points for being fun, easy to use, and for making you look cool and up on the latest trends when you’re with clients. Cons: Although Proto is great for creating wireframes for small sites, it’s not going to replace more professional tools, such OmniGraffle or Microsoft Visio. Rating: […]

PR: Recosoft ships Enterprise level PDF-to-InDesign and PDF-to-IDML conversion solution

Osaka, Japan — Recosoft Corporation, the developer of the PDF2Office® family of products ships PDF2ID Enterprise 2012. PDF2ID Enterprise is a scalable PDF-to-InDesign and PDF-to-IDML conversion solution allowing hundreds of thousands of PDFs to be converted to the InDesign and IDML formats by simply targeting a folder. PDF2ID Enterprise incorporates advanced workflow automation features in processing […]

Game Gives You Chance to Win Photoshop and Much More

LevelUp is a game from Adobe that you play within Photoshop. The goal is to walk through a series of image-editing tasks and rack up points as you complete each task. For every 400 points you earn, you automatically get one entry into a monthly drawing for the Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection. This game […]

Free Photoshop Cheat Sheet

Lesa Snider, the author of Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual and several CreativePro.com articles, is giving away a “Photoshop CS5 Cheat Sheet” to anyone who likes her new Facebook page. One page of the PDF includes 17 practical keyboard shortcuts for such tasks as “Enter QuickMask mode” and “Drag a layer into another document and […]

Introduction to Illustrator: Part 1

Excerpted from Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork by Von Glitschka. Copyright © 2011. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders. In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of […]

Trip the iPhone's Camera Remotely

With the holidays come a wealth of photo opportunities. Some may be formal family portraits you shoot with your SLR, but many others will be candids you capture with a mobile phone. If you have an iPhone with iOS 5, you can improve those snapshots by using a cable release to trip the shutter, thereby […]