One great reason to use InDesign is that you can’t choose Zapf Dingbats italic, or Symbol bold. Those fonts don’t really exist (at least not in the files on my computer), so I can’t select them. Well, sometimes you just neeeed to make it a little more bold, or a bit more oblique (skewed). Please […]
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This Photoshop CS3 tutorial is an installment of The Russell Brown Show. It’s not hard to alter an image dramatically when a Photoshop master shows you how. In this video, Russell explains how to combine images as Smart Objects, and — using Camera Raw as a creative tool — take a photo into a frightening […]
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Barnardo’s unique historical image archive is being brought bang up to date and will be put on high quality digital format by leading picture library TopFoto.co.uk. Started by the charity’s founder Thomas Barnardo back in the early 1870’s, the archive is a complete photographic record of Barnardo’s children from the dirty, destitute boys dressed in […]
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Combining the imagination of Fotolia images and the creative power of QuarkXPress 7 software, you – the designer – have the opportunity to promote your passion for design, creative skill, and even win $5000 in cash and prizes – and build your portfolio – by designing the next generation of Fotolia advertisements. Unleash your creative […]
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Apple® released Apertureâ„¢ 2.1, which introduces an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy for photographers to use specialized third party imaging software right from within Aperture. Available today as a free software update, Aperture 2.1 includes the Apple-developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten), burn (darken), contrast, saturation, sharpen […]
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Sponsored by iStockPhoto. Here’s what you’ll see in this week’s Get Creative video (video below): Master in a Minute Wake up! Remove under-eye bags and circles with Photoshop’s healing tool. News The AIGA is holding its annual Portfolio Day for graphic design students in April and May. A portfolio review costs $10 or $30, depending […]
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If you’re reading this blog, you love type. And if you love type, you owe it to yourself to go to a Web site created by bag maker Crumpler: www.crumplerabc.com On that site, you’ll find a riotously colored alphabet made from assorted materials. Why would a bag maker create a Web site devoted to the […]
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Satmetrix Systems, the leader in enterprise customer loyalty solutions, released a study today that examines the financial impact of positive and negative customer word-of-mouth (WOM). The study, Net Promoter Economics: The Impact of Word of Mouth is the first in a series and highlights the business-to-consumer (B2C) computer hardware industry. “Word-of-mouth is one of the […]
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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve […]
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