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Monthly Archives: January 2004

dot-font: Squaring the Typographic Circle

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 How-To: Painting with Light

This story is taken from “Adobe Photoshop Master Class: John Paul Caponigro, Second Edition.” John Paul Caponigro is a photographer and Photoshop artist who combines deep technical knowledge with stunning artistic sensibility. His images in which massive rocks float above desolate plains are surreal yet grounded in real-world photographic detail. As a photographer Caponigro know […]

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Under the Desktop: Desperately Ignoring iPod

The moniker “digital divide” has a certain meaning in today’s computing world: the gap between the computer literate, or even the owners of computing products, and those without access to online content and resources. Another kind of digital divide was evident at last week’s Macworld Expo San Francisco: it was the growing differences between the […]

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CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12: Smart Doodling, Dynamic Snapping, Savvy Copying

CorelDraw lovers everywhere invariably applaud a new release of this sleek, value-filled graphics package, and with good reason: The three major applications in the CorelDraw Graphics Suite provide illustration (CorelDraw), image editing (Photo-Paint), and animation (R.A.V.E) cover most tasks that a graphics pro might need. The box also includes plenty of extras: a healthy assortment […]

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The Art of Business: The New Case for Open-Book Management

Do your employees know how much you make? Should they? And, most importantly, will it help your creative business be more efficient, successful, and creative? The answer to all these questions is yes, according to John Case, author of “Open-Book Management: The Coming Business Revolution” and “The Open-Book Experience: Lessons From Over 100 Companies Who […]

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Plug-Ins and XTensions: XPress Enhancers, Focus Fixers, Colorblind Detectors, Word Exporters

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. Photoshop Simulate Color Blindness Colorfield Insight 1.1 ($20) is a plug-in for Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, etc., that simulates colorblindness, allowing you to evaluate the impact of colorblindness on […]

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