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Linotype Film Premieres in NY, Travels to Other Screens
A documentary film about the Linotype machine — called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison — premiered in New York on February 3 and is making its way across the country. The West Coast premiere is Tuesday, February 21, in San Francisco. According to the movie’s website, the first SF screening is […]
Continue readingHow to Turn Overset Alert Dialog Back On
What do you do when you click “Do Not Show Again” but you didn’t really mean it?!
Continue readingNew Video of Photoshop CS6 Shows Content-Aware Image Editing
In a new video posted this week on the official Photoshop YouTube channel, Adobe gives users another taste of what’s to come in version CS6 of the image-editing application. This is the fourth video Adobe has released on the product in order to whet the whistle of consumers. It seems the company wants to tantalize […]
Continue readingFree For All: Templates for Every Project and Purpose
Templates are one of the most useful free resources any creative professional can have on hand. They can save hours spent measuring items by hand, calling vendors for specifications, or searching Google for increasingly difficult to find information. Armed with a well made template for the project you need to produce, you can get right […]
Continue readingNew Online Workshops Bring Creative Suite Pros to You
Creative pros looking for in-depth, hands-on training in the top three Adobe applications for designers have two upcoming opportunities to put on their calendars: CS Magic and the 3×5 series. CS Magic launches a new series this week with expert tips on using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. The webinar teachers are truly experts, too: Sandee […]
Continue readingLast-Second Valentine Gifts
Whether you believe in Saint Valentine or Cupid, whether you likes hearts or roses, whether you’re in a committed relationship or not, someone you know will be expecting a token of love today. As a creative professional you may feel under even more pressure than most folks to come up with a gift that’s, well, […]
Continue readingFacebook Gives Photographers Better Viewing Experience
If you’ve looked at photos on Facebook pages recently, you may have noticed that the viewing experience is a little different. This week, Facebook has been rolling out a new interface for viewing photographs that vastly improves how photos appear on screen. Once the change hits your account, you’ll see that clicking on a photo […]
Continue readingConstruct a Color Wheel in Photoshop
Excerpted from Photoshop for Designers: Color on lynda.com. In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll transform a simple circle filled with RGB into a complete color wheel that includes tints and shades of all twelve colors. Begin this how-to by clicking the image below to download a Photoshop file that contains the simple shape: Once you’ve opened […]
Continue readingGetting Around Windows 7 Security to “Save” Files Into InDesign’s Application Folder
Most of us know that scripts are really nothing more than plain text files. In fact, many times in a user forum I’ll see a simple script typed out with the instructions to copy it to a plain text file and save it in the InDesign scripts folder with a JSX extension. Another use for […]
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