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Getting Started with Adobe Apps? Here’s Help

Adobe has released a series of short video courses targeted at first-time users of the company’s Creative Cloud applications. If there’s an Adobe app you’ve wanted to try out, these focused, hands-on courses could be a useful introduction. In addition to instructional video, they also include downloadable sample files and even keyboard shortcut cheat sheets. […]

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Rise of the Hashtag: How the Humble #Hash Sign Is Taking Over Social Media

The @ sign needs to watch its back if it wants to hold on to its status as the most influential keyboard character of the Internet age. Yon hash sign (#) has a lean and hungry look. In fact, Facebook’s long-awaited announcement earlier this month that hashtags are now active and clickable on Facebook means […]

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PDF and XPS Converter for InDesign CC Now Available

Recosoft is now shipping PDF2ID Standard and Professional v4.0 for InDesign Creative Cloud. These programs convert PDF and XPS files to editable InDesign files. PDF2ID v4.0 also incorporates additional PDF-to-InDesign property recovery. You can buy PDF2ID Standard v4.0 for $199 (upgrade $99). PDF2ID Professional v4.0 is $299 (upgrade $149). Recosoft says it is debuting four primary […]

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New Option in Pocket-Sized DSLR Cameras

Fujifilm just announced the X-M1, an entry-level sibling to the company’s X-Pro1 and X-E1 cameras. All three have interchangeable lenses, retro styling, and are smaller and lighter than most digital SLR cameras. The X-M1 contains the same 16.3 megapixel sensor as its big brother X-Pro1, so according to Fujifilm, the X-M1 picture quality will be […]

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The Path to Beautiful Tables: Working With Table Rules

In this installment of our series on creating beautiful tables (see Part 1 here), we’ll look at a couple more aspects of table setting that relate to form rather than, strictly speaking, content. The grid structure that programs use to delineate tables seems to call out for rules to separate rows and columns. Using them […]

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Bringing Good Design to Dining

Art of the Menu is a delicious destination for lovers of good design. This site (a division of Bryony Gomez-Palacio’s and Armin Vit’s UnderConsideration) serves up menus from around the world that are both functional and pleasing to the eye. Browsing the menus is like taking a course in masterful typography, color use, and even […]

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Review: Adobe Illustrator CC

By Cristen Gillespie with Sharon Steuer Adobe announced in May that the set of applications they called the Create Suite (CS) has been rolled into their set of applications and services that is the Creative Cloud. Henceforth, to access any new features, you will have to subscribe on a monthly or annual basis. You can […]

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