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Elemental Photo Manipulations, Part 2: Earth

“Elemental Photo Manipulations” is a four-part series highlighting tutorials and inspirational amazing artwork combining photography with Photoshop in surreal, mind-bending, and sometimes startling ways. In this second installment in the series marvel at the way artists have bent the very Earth—dirt, stone, metal, and even the flora—to their whims. Don’t miss “Part 1: Fire,” and […]

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PitStop Pro 12 Review

Pros: Offers users the ability to find, buy, and embed missing fonts; much easier editing of page items Cons: Pricey for an average designer Rating: 9/10 PitStop Pro 12 is a significant upgrade to this all-purpose (and all-powerful!) tool for preflighting and editing PDF files. It operates as a plug-in to Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro, version […]

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Teaching Typography with Flickering Fonts

No matter how you pronounce them, animated GIFs, with their brevity, humor, and visual inventiveness have certainly found their place in Web culture. We’ve come a long way from rippling flags and dancing babies. Nowdays GIFs can be quite artful, and they can be used as teaching tools as well. Case in point: the site […]

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Free Pantone Webinar: Discovering a New Color Language for 2014

Earlier this week I posted a story about the Nix color sampler, a crazy cool tool in the making that’s essentially a calibrated scanner in your pocket for grabbing inspirational colors wherever you find them. But it’s one thing to have the tools to work with colors, it’s another thing to have a game plan […]

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