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dot-font: Zapfest

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro.  If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

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Epson Stylus Photo 785EPX: Great Prints, No Computer Required

Digital camera and inkjet printing technology have improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, but one thing has remained the same: To get prints you typically must go through the rather involved process of downloading images from your camera to your computer, and then passing them through some sort of printing software. […]

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Expression 2: Natural Media the Vector Way

Several years ago Fractal Design begin marketing a program that in some ways seemed too good to be true. Developed by Creature House, Expression gave users natural-media tools like those in Painter but with one big difference: As a vector-based drawing package, Expression could lay down natural-media strokes that could then be easily edited; with […]

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dot-font: Voice Fonts Speak Volumes

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro.  If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

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QuarkXPress How-To: Creating a Graphics Portfolio

Brought to you by Element K Journals One interesting (and frustrating) aspect of working in today’s graphics marketplace is the constantly changing world of communications. The software seems to change even more rapidly than the trade’s technology, requiring graphic artists to continually spend time learning new versions. To add to that labor, it isn’t enough […]

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Advanced Layer Blending in Photoshop 6

Brought to you by Element K Journals Creating illustrations or compositing images usually takes lots of layer manipulation to create the exact blends and effects you want. With Photoshop’s Layer Style dialog box, you get immense control and organization over applying blending and effects to your images and graphics. In this article, we’ll show you […]

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