In an effort to breathe fresh air into its customer relations, Quark recently held the Quark Summit at Breckenridge, Colorado. Set high up in the Rockies, with snow still on the nearby peaks and even on the resort grounds, the conference was designed to update its customers on new products and services. Along the way, […]
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Every few months another industry article announces the contraction of the printing industry or the irrelevancy of the medium. But the printing industry continues to gain strength, according to the latest economic indicators from both the National Association for Printing Leadership and Print Buyers Online.com. On the Rebound Print sales are up, and a host […]
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Hi, my name is Molly, and I am a paper junkie. (Ed. Note: Hello, Molly!) I haven’t sought help for my addiction and probably never will. I love paper — all kinds of paper: slick paper, rough paper, shiny paper and even dull, unvarnished paper. My favorite these days is handmade, translucent paper. It’s not […]
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It’s easy to see individual channels in color in Photoshop’s Channels palette — simply select “Color Channels in Color” in Preferences> Display & Cursors. But what if you want to print the channels in color, say as samples for a screenprinter? That takes a few more steps. Each color channel in an 8-bit CMYK image […]
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I have bought a good number of scanners in my lifetime. The biggest, and most expensive was a Crosfield 646IM 30×40-inch drum scanner. This cost about $300,000 (plus the construction and accessories to make it go). Since that monster, I have bought and sold a number — I can’t remember exactly how many — of […]
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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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We’ve been doing some minor remodeling at our house recently, so my wife Patty and I have been watching a lot of the Home and Garden Channel, and pouring over “Sunset” magazines and other helpful publications. From the amount of home-related material out there these days, and the popularity of stores like Home Depot, you’d […]
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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. Plug-in Catalog ThePowerXChange has a downloadable catalog/database of plugins for QuarkXPress, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator, including more than 200 new entries since December. Download it at www.thepowerxchange.com/catalogue_download.html […]
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Forget everything you think you know about Adobe and digital video. While Adobe has long held a leading market share in the professional video-compositing world with After Effects, as late as last summer the publishing software giant had been seriously at risk of losing its foothold in the rest of the DV space. Premiere was […]
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