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Download QuarkXPress 7 and 8 Cheat Sheets
Jay Nelson reports on Planet Quark that the New York City training company Noble Desktop is giving away one-page keyboard shortcut cheat sheets. Noble has tailored the shortcut guides for XPress 7 and 8, and for Mac or Windows: QuarkXPress 8 for Macintosh QuarkXPress 8 for Windows QuarkXPress 7 for Macintosh QuarkXPress 7 for Windows
Continue readingRetoucher 3.5 Promises New Life for Old, Damaged Photos
Few things in life stir our memories and emotions the way photographs do. Unfortunately, as time goes by, old photographs fade out, get stained, or get otherwise damaged. In order to preserve them, many people digitize their photos to pass these cherished images on to future generations. AKVIS Retoucher plug-in restores damaged photographs with minimal […]
Continue readingCS4 Treats Rounded Corner Objects Differently
A popular (but mysterious) trick for making a rounded corner square again stops working in CS4! But as always, there’s a workaround.
Continue readingSpell Checking Is No Replacement for a Good Proofer
When a student editor grabbed the first suggestion InDesign made for a mispelled word, havoc broke loose in Salt Lake City!
Continue readingNew lynda.com Videos on Brochure Design, Advanced Illustrator
lynda.com has released two new training videos. Designing a Brochure Hands-On Workshop with Nigel French Brochures are essential marketing tools, which establish brands and keep them competitive in the marketplace. Designer and educator Nigel French taps into his 15 years of professional experience to create a course that demonstrates how Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop […]
Continue readingNew Faces from Fonts.Com
Bulldog from Club Type? Figgins and Caslon may be names familiar as type founders, but they are less well known for the emergence of sans serif type styles. Part of our lives since 1889, the first hundred years of this style is celebrated with the Bulldog™ typeface design by Adrian Williams. Completed in 1989, it […]
Continue readingScanning Around With Gene: Winning Album Covers from You!
When I invited you readers to send me your favorite album cover designs, I wasn’t sure what to expect. For one thing, I neglected to consider the obstacle of scanning such large pieces, and I heard from a few of you who wanted to make submissions but didn’t have a scanner big enough. My bad […]
Continue readingPasteBoard XTension Now Supports QuarkXPress 8
Markzware, the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, today released an upgrade to its highly recommended utility Pasteboard v8 for QuarkXPress 8. Pasteboard is an XTension that changes the width and height of the pasteboard. This is similar to changing the pasteboard width percentage using the QuarkXPress application preferences menu. Pasteboard v8 […]
Continue readingNew Pantone Apps for iPhone and Facebook
Wondering what color is associated with your birthday and how it resonates with your personality? Now available for the iPhone, COLORSTROLOGY by Michele Bernhardt provides a color for every day of the year alongside insights into the personality traits associated with that particular birthday – a color horoscope of sorts. Download COLORSTROLOGY for free at […]
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