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Podcast 190

• Conference News: SXSW, MAX, HOW, Maine Media Workshop, new PEPCON speakers
• Overlooked InDesign Resources (sites, pubs, books,etc.)
• Quizzler! “Awesome and Wacky,” says David
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Desaturate Black

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Free Photo-lettering App from House Industries

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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Adobe Ending Boxed Software Sales

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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Illustrator Brush Tips

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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