In my last Art of Business column, I proposed a series of questions meant to help design firms successfully select freelancers. Now we switch sides and propose a series of questions for freelancers to help successfully select clients or at least get a sense of where trouble may lie in the coming relationship. But before […]
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One of the advantages of Adobe InDesign’s membership in the Adobe Creative Suite is its interoperability with other Adobe applications. That means you can drag and drop native Photoshop and Illustrator files directly into InDesign while maintaining all their attributes and editability. But InDesign goes even further by allowing you to drag as many files […]
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Technology that can beef up the performance of either hardware or software is always of interest to professional content creators, whatever their medium of expression. Likewise, the demands of digital-video applications, especially for the generation of high-resolution effects, can eat up the performance of most mainstream computing platforms on the market. To no surprise, technologists […]
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This story is taken from "Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop." Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount. Click here to learn more. Producing is personal and professional DVDs is getting easier, thanks to applications like Apple’s DVD Studio Pro 3 (Mac) and Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 (Windows). But making the transition from designing […]
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Just a year ago, if you were looking for a digital camera with resolution higher than 6 megapixels, your only options were the $8,000 Canon 1DS and the $4,000 Kodak DCS 14n. As of today, though, you can choose from among four different 8-megapixel cameras, each priced around $1,000. Sony’s entry into this new higher-resolution […]
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This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine. Adding texture to objects makes them more interesting, whether they be in the three-dimensional world or on a two-dimensional page. But finding suitable textures can be tricky, especially when masking textures into type outlines. Some pre-packaged textures look contrived. Others are so complex as to detract […]
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Like a perfect storm, several things happened recently that led to this particular column. First, an article appeared in the “Wall Street Journal” a few months ago about how Gen-Xers are taking up Canasta and other card games in droves, a desperate attempt to return to the simpler times when entertainment didn’t require memory chips […]
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This story is taken from “QuarkXPress 6 for Print and Web Design.” Initial caps and text runarounds are the bells and whistles of setting text in a page layout program. But while they seem like pure adornment, drop caps provide important points of entry into text-heavy pages and text that runs around graphics breaks up […]
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For my money, one of the most-underrated features in Adobe Photoshop CS is the Camera Raw plug-in, which reads raw images from just about every camera on the market that supports that format. (Version 2.2, which adds support for several new models thus bringing the total to more than 60 cameras, was released in late […]
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