The announcement that QuarkXPress 6 ships this week opens a new chapter in what has become an epic saga pitting two products, two companies, and two cultures against each other for the hearts and minds (and CPUs) of designers everywhere. If it were a summer blockbuster movie, the battle between QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign would […]
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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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This story is taken from “Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated.” Doug Panton uses Illustrator to design corporate identities that can be used for advertising, packaging, and branding, among other uses. The corporate logos he creates are often extracted from larger illustrations, which mean all elements must not only work together as a whole but must […]
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Since I started this column in February, I’ve heard from and met quite a few other letterpress hobbyists and they all seem to have one thing in common — they either worked at a newspaper back in the “old days” of metal typesetting, or they have a fascination for fine, limited-edition books. I love a […]
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Each month Design Tools Monthly reviews some of the best plug-ins and XTensions on the market. Most of the mentioned products can be purchased through The PowerXChange. Dreamweaver Free Dreamweaver Accessibility Extension UsableNet has free extensions for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX that check for Web accessibility compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. It can […]
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It is no understatement to say that Adobe Acrobat has revolutionized the printing industry by providing a compact, powerful output medium called Portable Document Format (PDF). Before the advent of PDF, document distribution depended on a disparate assortment of software; document collaboration was virtually nonexistent, and desktop publishing was a chancy proposition, involving clumsy exchange […]
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Every time I hear the word “prospecting,” I think of one of these crotchety old miners knee high in some icy mountain stream panning for hours in search of a few tiny flakes of pay dirt. Not a pretty picture, particularly when updated to reflect the efforts of many creative professionals today when it comes […]
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There are few things traditional artists who work on the computer find as exciting as animating their work. With Photoshop’s sidekick, ImageReady, the task becomes as easy as pie. And with Alien Skin’s new Photoshop plug-in, Xenofex 2, life — the life of an artist in pursuit of a moving image, that is — just […]
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Some have declared that Internet searching is the next “killer app” for computing. And the evidence for that claim can be seen in the continued growth of search engine companies as well as from the ubiquitous search box found on Web sites. Search engine companies keep finding new content areas to explore, such as news, […]
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