Archive: 2005 September

As a designer working in the wild, it’s important maintain a dialogue with your peers, whether that’s done through email, by phone, in person at cafés or other establishments, or even through classroom or convention interactions. One good way to keep up this kind of conversation is by attending the events.

2005-Sep-30 | Vadim Litvak | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Which one will survive after the Adobe/Macromedia’s merger? Many people are wondering what will happen to GoLive and Dreamweaver once the merge between Adobe and Macromedia will take effect...

2005-Sep-30 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Web Design | Features

Technical certifications quantify and qualify skill sets, enhance workflows, provide a powerful tool to hirers and add market value to job seekers...

2005-Sep-30 | Cate Indiano | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Tommy Maloney’s tutorial explains the basics of Smart Objects, the new non-destructive way to manipulate images The Smart Objects feature is one of the most exciting things Photoshop has brought to the table in recent years: importing an image and being able to scale, distort, transform and otherwise manipulate it without making it go soft or blurry because you scaled it too large...

2005-Sep-29 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Tutorials

The word from Adobe is now yes, there will be a Mac version of Photoshop Elements 4, its popular entry-level photo-editing software...

2005-Sep-29 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Photoshop | News

The National Atlas of the United States of America online is a wealth of resources for the curious and the professional alike Wired cartographers both professional and amateur, as well as people who simply love maps and like information, have a great resource at thier command...

2005-Sep-28 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

Second in an irregular series. The Mercator Projection, illustrative of the paradigm. Courtesy Nationalatlas...

2005-Sep-28 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

A website’s main navigation has always been featured someplace near the top of the page. Nowadays, people are questioning that. So, where should your navigation be placed...

2005-Sep-27 | Lucian Slatineanu | Filed: Web Design | Features

Viewed by many as the world’s best Web editor, Macromedia’s Dreamweaver just got an upgrade. Part of Macromedia Studio 8.0, Dreamweaver 8...

2005-Sep-27 | Lucian Slatineanu | Filed: Web Design | Reviews

By Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips is full of tips and tricks for Illustrator users no matter what your level of skill with the software...

2005-Sep-27 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | News | Reviews

Elements 4.0 for Windows is here, leaving Mac users to ponder the fate of this program on the Macintosh platform...

2005-Sep-27 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Photoshop | News

New utility from Insider Software promises to clean up and streamline font suitcases and caches, improving system performance...

2005-Sep-27 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

The results of a survey released today conclude that only 45% Americans say they write up New Years Resolutions—down from 88% in past years...

2005-Sep-26 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

How two of Photoshop’s most basic tools can turn a pixellated scan into a quality bitmap image I suppose it’s the initiation rite of any newspaper production designer: the sales rep’s client wants their logo scanned in for the next day’s ad, and when you ask for the Illustrator file or PDF they instead hand you a god-awful fax...

2005-Sep-26 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Tutorials

Color-correction guru quits using Adobe’s latest version, citing poor Bridge performance...

2005-Sep-26 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | News

Let us know your opinion in this poll Jacci Howard Bear, About...

2005-Sep-26 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | News

2006 edition of RMN Standard boasts more than 2.000 updates, enhanced coverage, more tourist and internet features. On 15 Sept 2005, publisher Rand McNally announced the release of thier signature U...

2005-Sep-26 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

BeLight has released its Image Tricks image editing application for free. It is for Mac OS X Tiger only, and uses Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters...

2005-Sep-26 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Graphic Design | Photoshop | News

Rulers and Spine If you need to measure things on your screen put that plastic ruler back in your drawer right now … InDesign has rulers which are located right on the top and on the left of the document’s window...

2005-Sep-25 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | Tutorials

Digital Typefounder creates and markets bitmap fonts especially for web media A sample of Matthew Bardram’s Hypersigna font, available at Atomic Media Need a font for a Flash, Web, or WAP application that will stay sharp at small sizes...

2005-Sep-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

Typeradio.org interviews to go in podcast format Typeradio...

2005-Sep-25 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Typography | News

Apple Ads Collection for the Most Passionate 1983 Apple print advertisement for the Lisa...

2005-Sep-24 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

Shortly after writing about the new Opera 8, now free, I gladly find out that Firefox is testing their next major release It’s a browser war. It’s imminent...

2005-Sep-23 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Web Design | News

All Photoshop plug-ins now Tiger-compatible, including Eye Candy 5 Alien Skin Software today announced that their Photoshop plug-ins have been updated to include compatibility with Mac OS X 10...

2005-Sep-23 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | News