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Monthly Archives: July 2003

Bit by Bit: Preserving History with Panoramic Portraits

On a beautiful day in early June, I arranged 63 park rangers and four horses into a circle around my camera in Yosemite National Park. The occasion was the twelfth anniversary of the last time the rangers got together for a group-in-uniform portrait (see Figure 1). This was also the first time the rangers had […]

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dot-font: Font Bureau’s Ample Scope for Typography

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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Photoshop Tips: Duotone vs. Multichannel Images

A great way to save on your printing costs is to use two inks instead of four. You can also produce some incredibly striking images, and some cool effects, for print, Web, and artistic purposes. But which color mode is right for your project, Duotone or Multichannel? Let’s do a comparison. Duotone color mode takes […]

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Under the Desktop: Looking at the Next Generation of Macintosh

The dust is only now settling in the wake of Apple’s announcement last week of forthcoming high-speed Power Macintosh G5 desktops. A debate now rages online about how fast is fast and the validity of abstract benchmark tests when comparing different families of processors and diverse platforms. “Whatever” will be the response of most creative […]

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Plug-Ins and XTensions: Symbol Sprayers, Style Shapers, Frame Makers, Design Helpers

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. GoLive PayPal Wizard for GoLive Transmit Media has a free PayPal eCommerce Extension for GoLive that provides a wizard to easily create PayPal payment buttons from within GoLive. […]

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