Few industries rely on the contribution of freelancers as much as the unwieldy universe known as marketing communications/graphic arts. Agencies use freelancers, small shops use freelancers, even freelancers use freelancers. It’s a virtual world. Why hire a freelancer? Hiring freelance means your firm gets the finished product it needs without incurring the costs of hiring […]
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This story is taken from “Adobe Master Class: Photoshop Compositing with John Lund”, published by Peachpit Press One of the most fun — and challenging — tasks in Photoshop is combining multiple photographs into a single image. Called a composite, the resulting image can either look fanciful to deliberately distort reality or authentic to convincingly […]
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I spent the last two weeks of April in Florida, attending four print-related conferences at two different luxury resort hotels. Nice work if you can get it, and I don’t get it often enough. The pool and the sun were constant temptations. But it was alternating between the sea and the sessions that I glimpsed […]
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Nobody has 100-percent retention, which is why in 1121 A.D. the Cistercian monk Erroneus invented Since then, other than replacing quill pens with laser printers, and sheepskins with paper, not much has changed. Every year, teachers and trainers pile paper on students, hoping to reinforce classroom presentations. Trees are slaughtered, backpacks are crammed full, but […]
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“As for the future of publishing, XML is really important. I can’t tell you how or why, but I know it’s the future.” — My Editor Pam Pfiffner If ever there were two philosophically incompatible genres, surely programming and graphic design would outrank organized religion. Asking a graphic designer to program is generally about as […]
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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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When I had a small print and type shop in Monterey California, I rented space from the owner of a car wash, which was next door to me. So it made sense that I would produce various promotions for the car wash in exchange for a reduction in rent, free detailing, or an unlimited supply […]
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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. Acrobat PDF Image Tool Acronnect Software’s ImageEngine Export 1.0 ($80) is a plug-in for Acrobat 5 and 6 that exports images from a PDF document in Photoshop format, […]
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6804136. That’s the serial number of my first Nikon F camera, purchased new in 1968 when I was a senior in high school and that number is imprinted in my memory (see Figure 1). It was my first professional camera, and I used it for years to record images all over the world. I still […]
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