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Monthly Archives: June 2004

Photoshop How-To: Printing Separations in Color

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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dot-font: Does Graphic Design Need Nudging?

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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Plug-Ins and XTensions: InDesign Labelers, QuarkXPress Tablers, Photoshop Bundles

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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