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Monthly Archives: June 2003

dot-font: Type Buzz in Vancouver

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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Illustrator How-To: Using Pathfinder Effects to Design Woodcut Logos with Doug Panton

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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Plug-Ins and XTensions: Photoshop Image Enlargers, QuarkXPress Spell Checkers, Traditional Photography Effects, Improved Printin

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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Acrobat 6 Professional: Adobe Targets Creatives with Nimbler Acrobat

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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Photoshop How-To: Using Xenofex 2 to Animate Graphics

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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