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Scanning Around With Gene: Horror and Exploitation!
When I lived in Southern California, I took a lot of filmmaking classes in college, and became a bit obsessed with film history and film culture. Living near Hollywood meant access to lots of resources, so my friends and I spent too much spare time at the various film-themed bookstores and memorabilia shops that dotted […]
Continue readingHistory of Photography Infographic
The folks behind Overgram, an app that allows users to design custom titles for their Instagram photos, have published a truly nifty infographic about the massive effect mobile apps have had on photography. The infographic, designed by Now Sourcing, is packed with interesting photography trivia tidbits, including: • More than 3.5 trillion photos have been […]
Continue readingPodcast 184
ITUNES RSS FEED DOWNLOAD Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-184.mp3 (13 MB, 24:17 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. Or view the transcript of this podcast. News: PEPCON 2013! Animation Features in InDesign: What Can You Use them For? Another “InDesign Horror Story” with an Acrobat flair Quizzler! Get out your Find Font thinking […]
Continue readingHoliday Text FX, part 1: Candy Cane Text
Spruce up your documents this holiday season with some fun text effects.
Continue reading20 Free Must-Have Scripts for InDesign Users
Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, August/September 2012 (issue 49). Subscribe now! In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the magazine. This PDF is best viewed in Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader. Congratulations: By starting to read […]
Continue readingThe Futura Gold
If you have any affinity for type, motion graphics, animation, or just pure awesomeness, you owe it to yourself to check out the animation adventure series by Chris Gavin called THE FUTURA GOLD. Everything in it, including the characters and backgrounds is entirely composed with characters from the Futura typeface. Here’s the first episode of […]
Continue readingPopChar Updated With New Features
PopChar, the utility that has been helping Mac users find and type special characters in their documents since the Age of the Dinosaurs (technically 1987), has been updated with new and improved features. No longer a simple character picker, PopChar has grown into a full-featured font utility for both Mac and Windows. Version 6.1 adds […]
Continue readingAppStudio Webinar
Quark is offering a free webinar this Thursday, November 29th on how to publish interactive HTML5 content to the iPad using InDesign. Yes, you read that right. InDesign. You can sign up here. Details from the annoucement: App Studio works with software you already know – InDesign – transforming content into HTML5, the next-generation Web […]
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