Please note: There will be absolutely nothing of an educational nature in this news item. Type-o-Matic is a new service that, while based in England, serves anyone anywhere in the world. Here’s how it works: 1. You enter the text of a letter and the address of the recipient into a form on the Type-o-Matic […]
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Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com. Words communicate ideas. So can photos. Combine the two and you have not just an image that’s worth a thousand words, but an image that is a thousand words. In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you how to blend a photo and three layers of text to create […]
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I wouldn’t give up digital tools for any amount of money, but I have to admit that our modern software can sometimes result in sterile designs. Even if you’re not accomplished with the paintbrush or pencil, you can still add a human touch to your projects with hand-drawn alphabets from TheOrganicType. The company has just […]
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Now that many digital cameras, from point-and-shoots to high-end SLRs, can shoot video, you might not think that time-lapse movies are relevant. But there’s something unique about time-lapses that neither video nor still photos can match. Now Gunther Wegner’s free LRTimelapse software helps you create professional-looking time-lapse movies from RAW or JPG files. As the […]
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2012 Calendars in PDF, Illustrator, and InDesign Formats Ready or not, Mayan prophecy or not, 2012 is rapidly approaching, and calendars are required for many publishing projects — newspapers, newsletters, magazines, catalogs, brochures, event schedules, and, of course, calendar products themselves. Having toiled through the creation of quite a few month and year calendars myself, […]
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It seems as though every generation or so, there’s some sort of widespread civil uprising, the most recent being the Occupy Wall Street movement in cities throughout the United States and, indeed, the world. As I’m just old enough to remember the civil unrest of the late 1960s, I thought I’d take a look back […]
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A few months ago, I wrote an article called “So You Think You Know Photoshop?” that introduced you to five videos from Photoshop product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Each of these videos revealed little-known abilities in Photoshop CS5. Now Bryan has released four more “hidden gem” videos. Spend the few minutes it takes to watch […]
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You’ve created file name captions for your pictures, but you don’t want those icky file type extensions? Here’s how to make them disappear!
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If you’ve been distracted by headline news over the past few weeks, here’s what you missed in design and photography blogs: revisiting 1990s typography, debunking UV filter myths, getting the light right, demystifying Photoshop resampling options, peeking at designer workspaces, and touring Erik Spiekermann’s house. Plus, an opportunity to change someone’s life with your camera. […]
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