Application: QuarkXPress 4.x Operating Systems: Macintosh, Windows It isn’t really a big deal that QuarkXPress can read the embedded paths of imported images–most design applications are capable of that. Not so common, though, is a desktop publishing application having the ability to create and edit simple paths. QuarkXPress’ Clipping feature makes this possible. How QuarkXPress […]
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As an urban-centered female in the post-teen and pre-middle age demographic, it’s fair to say I spend a good deal of time contemplating fashion. Though I prefer to define my look as effortless hip (you know, I just look this cool naturally without even trying), the truth is that a fair amount of thought goes […]
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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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We’re all swimming in a sea of acronyms these days, but get ready for two more: JP2 and JPX. If you haven’t heard of them, you will soon enough. They’re the offspring to another acronym that is near and dear to all of our (Web publishing) hearts: JPEG. JP2 and JPX are the file extensions […]
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If you liked whiling away the study hours during your college years thinking about whether or not the chair that supported you might really exist, you’ll love contemplating the nature of color: In a very real sense, color is all in our heads. But there are tangible, concrete payoffs to understanding a little color theory, […]
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Application: Adobe Dreamweaver 3/4 One of the most frustrating things to deal with when working on the Web is that great storyboard thoughts just don’t make their way to fruition. It’s a phenomenon that happens all too often. What was a great idea in a storyboarding session often mutates into an absolute nightmare in the […]
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Application: iTunes Operating Systems: Mac OS 9/Mac OS X With its arsenal of QuickTime, FireWire, Final Cut Pro, iMovie 2 and the upcoming release of the SuperDrive/iDVD combination, it’s pretty safe to say that Apple has made its mark in the world of digital video. In fact, the Macintosh is now recognized as the leading […]
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Freud said, among other things, that as average people became more educated, their reliance on organized religion and spirituality would fade and eventually disappear altogether. Obviously, this has yet to happen. Though my generation (I’m on the early cusp of the so-called Generation X) is likely the first in which a large proportion of Americans […]
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Applications: FTP application, any HTML editor Operating Systems: Macintosh, Windows Though we often tend to think of our Web sites as relatively static, there are a number of things you can do to make them more active, even inviting to your viewers–things that allow them to participate in your site. Among these options, none are […]
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