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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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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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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If you’re lucky, you’re working with a devoted passel of clients that pay you within 30 days of your every invoice if for no other reason than to keep you carefree, committed, and artistically focused on your creative talents. More than likely, however, many of your clients are not so devoted. In fact, some may […]
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Brought to you by Element K Journals Mac OS X has been around for over six months now and many folks are just beginning to consider it an option. But once you load it and take a few days to play around with it, you’ll quickly discover that it’s a surprisingly elegant replacement for your […]
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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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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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What if you woke up one morning and realized your Web presence was living in an Internet slum? Or that you had gone for a week without e-mail even from your more-needy clients? As a buddy of mine recently discovered, these questions and even the answers could lead to some sleepless nights. This tale of […]
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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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