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Want to make some cool photographic images of type, but you’re too lazy (or too busy) to take pictures of letters everywhere you go and then assemble them? Well now all you have to do is head to Ampergram.com and harness the power of the Instagram community (and the roughly eleventy billion photos users have […]
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Today you were supposed to read a new installment of Free for All, my column wherein I find all sorts of great design freebies. We preempted Free for All in favor of this article because of the time-limited nature of the below subjects. Put simply, we didn’t want you to miss out helping to create […]
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How do we use the ‘Number of Columns’ feature in the Convert Text to Table dialog?
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In Part 2, Kelly shows a variation of her clever flat-bottomed stroke effect, useful if these strokes appear on a colored background.
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House Industries is known for producing high-quality typefaces and artwork, as well as housewares and clothing adorned with beautiful type. And now they’ve released a free app for iPhone and iPod that allows you to use some of their great fonts to enhance your photos. The Photolettering app allows users to take and edit photos, […]
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The disc is dead. If you have old boxed copies of Adobe’s Creative Suite products hanging out on your shelves, you might want to hold onto them, as they’re about to become collectibles. Recently it had been reported that as of May 1st, Adobe was discontinuing sales of the “boxed versions of Creative Suite family […]
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While searching through my archives for art pieces to show in my new course for lynda.com, Artistic Painting with Illustrator: Natural Media Brushes, I found this “watercolor” image created with transparent calligraphic brushes back in Adobe Illustrator 10, in 2002. This “Blue vase with sunflowers” image was the subject of a detailed step-by-step lesson on […]
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For the traveling photographer—or anyone who shoots in the field—the release of the iPad offered the possibility of a much lighter, easier field kit. Unfortunately, for the first few years of the iPad’s existence, the software did not exist to facilitate a pro-level workflow. Over the last few months, though, a few new apps have […]
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