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Monthly Archives: March 2004

Plug-Ins and XTensions: Illustrator Path Editors, Photoshop Photo Filters, QuarkXPress Productivity Enhancers

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. Illustrator Advanced Path-Editing in Illustrator CValley’s Xtream Path 1.1 ($139) is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator CS that adds several features: You can click anywhere on a path […]

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The Creative Toolbox: Packing Up InDesign Layouts for GoLive Pages

Adobe InDesign has developed into a very capable, versatile print-publishing application of its own right. However, InDesign’s publishing feats do not stop at print. Adobe made certain that InDesign CS would meet most cross-media publishing needs as well, such as Acrobat PDFs, eBooks, and the Web. Earlier versions of InDesign included an export command to […]

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dot-font: News on Paper in the Digital Age

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: Experimenting with Traditional Techniques

This story is taken from “50 Fast Photoshop 7 Techniques.” To buy this book click here. Long before Photoshop, photographers have played with techniques for adding special effects to their images, whether it be picking up a brush and hand-painting a black-and-white print or applying a texture screen when exposing a negative in the darkroom. […]

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Version Cue: Balancing Simplicity, Functionality in CS Workflow Tool

For more information about The Seybold Report, click here. Perhaps the hardest software challenge in the graphic arts today is to invent a workflow-support tool for creative professionals. The obstacles are many: Creative people are notoriously individualistic and resistant any prescriptive approach to managing their daily tasks. The majority of artists and designers work solo […]

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QuarkXPress 6 Tips: Working with Layers

This story is taken from “The QuarkXPress 6 Bible.” To buy this book click here. The ability to work with layered files was an important addition to QuarkXPress 5, and with version 6, Quark added some small but significant improvements to this valuable feature. In fact, some publishing pundits assert that the layer functionality of […]

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