Fixing Droopy Wraps

We’d like to pass on a short and wonderful little article written by our friend and colleague Dave Saunders. He wrote:

One of InDesign’s long-standing problems has been the way it handles text wraps around circular objects. As Figure 1 shows, the text droops below the circular wrap in an ungainly fashion. When working with left-aligned/ragged-right text, there is the further issue that the circle also is too far to the right, but this latter is hardly InDesign’s fault…

Making Dynamic Text Wrap Permanent

A friend of mine who manages a printing company’s prepress department told me that his company strongly discourages their InDesign clients from using either the Detect Edges or the Alpha Channel options in the Text Wrap panel:

That was the first time I’ve heard of the warning. The reason, he said, was that if anyone in […]

ExtraLabs Software Unveils RSS Wizard 3

ExtraLabs Software today announces the release of RSS Wizard 3. RSS Wizard is an HTML to RSS converter than can generate the RSS feed out of virtually any web page without having to edit it first. RSS Wizard generates RSS 2.0 feeds and allows you to create, edit and publish an unlimited number of RSS […]

iPhone Optimized Websites for Photographers and Artists

ISProductions announces a new version of its FolioLink photography and art website service that automatically optimizes clients’ online portfolios for the iPhone interface. FolioLink is the first website service of its kind to offer iPhone interface compatibility for all subscriber websites and requires no effort on the part of the photographers and artists. This announcement […]

Cozimo Unveils Simple, Elegant Web Application for Image, Video Collaboration

Cozimo Technologies Inc. (https://www.cozimo.com/) today introduced a new real-time web-based application for digital media and design professionals who regularly review and collaborate on visual content — such as images, video or PDF files — and require feedback from many people located in many different locations. “What people call real-time collaboration on the web today is […]

Give Your Photos Maximum Impact with Corel's New PhotoImpact X3

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced the launch of PhotoImpact® X3, its award-winning digital photo editing software. PhotoImpact X3 combines easy-to-use photo editing, inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art to make digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy. PhotoImpact is designed for […]

Get Creative VIDEO: News for the Week of January 28, 2008

This week’s videocast is sponsored by the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s videocast: News Quark announced the launch of Quark Labs, which it calls “your landing pad for emerging software technology, seasoned technologies and everything in between.” Scott Citron’s book Professional Design Techniques is out. This 300-page book will […]

WebAssist Delivers Cutting-Edge Text Editing Solution For Dreamweaver

WebAssist today announced iRite™, a groundbreaking solution for Dreamweaver users that delivers the ability to edit text for web pages in the same way that you would edit text using a word processor like, Microsoft Word. Bringing a familiar editing paradigm to Dreamweaver will provide users, of varying skill levels, a comfortable alternative to editing […]

"Watermarking Comes of Age": Inside Digital Media Webcast Interview with Digimarc CEO

Digimarc Chairman and CEO Bruce Davis is the featured guest this week on Phil Leigh’s Inside Digital Media webcast program. Davis describes the progress of digital watermarking across a wide range of applications. To access the interview, entitled “Has digital watermarking come of age?” please visit https://www.insidedigitalmedia.com and select the interview on January 19, 2008 […]