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Archive: 2005 October
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Spoooooky Halloween Symbols
Halloween is almost here, so here are some spooky Illustrator symbols to spice up your holiday illustrations...
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InDesign Advanced Typographical Controls
Find out about the Paragraph Composer and Single Line Composer. Control hyphenation and more. One of InDesign’s strongest points is its typographic controls...
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ZOMBIES! or, How To Add Some Color To The Living Dead
Thanks to amateur digital photographers, we see dead people...
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SPOOKY! Building a Halloween Typeface in Photoshop
Here’s a fun Halloween typeface you can build right in Photoshop in five easy steps! Step 1: Type something up in your favorite spooky font and kern it as needed. I used Manson in Figure 1...
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Cartography Word of the Day: Loxodrome
Third in an irregular series A loxodrome, or line of constant bearing, between New York and London, plotted on a Mercator’s projection world map (base map courtesy Cartographic Research Lab, University of Alabama) The word loxodrome is defined by the 3rd edition of Robinson, Sale, and Morrison’s Elements of Cartography as “a line of constant bearing”, bearing here meaning a compass direction...
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Color Correct Flat Panel Proves Back-Lighting is Back
Utilizing LumiLED back-lighting technology, the new NEC SpectraView Reference 21 monitor is ready for high-end, color critical work...
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Mary Baker Eddy’s Marvelous Mapparium
Stained-glass globe that “takes you to the center of the world” celebrates its 70th Anniversary A group of people at the center of the great 30-foot diameter Mapparium (graphic © The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity In the history of human spirituality and intellectual endeavor, American Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) occupies a unique place; not only did she found a religion (The Church of Christ, Scientist, commonly known as “Christian Science”) but also the internationally known daily The Christian Science Monitor, a non-denominational newspaper renowned for the accuracy and insightfulness of its reporting...
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Realigner or Redesigner?
Does the design support the content, is the design just cool?
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Duffy Shows the Importance of Design in Branding
Branding legend, Joe Duffy, examines the process of design to create a lasting and memorable brand in his latest book Brand Apart...
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I’m not an Ad Slogan, but I play one on T.V.
With more and more exposure to media, advertising slogans find their way into the popular lexicon. Here are a couple lists of a few memorable slogans from recent memory.
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Dan Margulis’ Photoshop LAB Color
Dan Margulis’ new book focuses on Photoshop’s nuclear color space. But who is it written for—the novice or the expert...
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Photoshop Elements 4 Adjust Color for Skin Tone Command
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 has several new tools to help photographers adjust images. One of these in the Adjust Color for Skin Tone command...
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The Big Squeeze
How automated technologies and manufacturing processes including workflows, job management, computer to plate and the PDF file format have delivered on the promise of increased efficiencies, reduced rework, standardized processes, and reduced headcount in commercial printing...
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huhcorp.com: They Do Stuff
Wickedly funny design consultanacy site satire cuts close to the bone The home page of the greatest design consultancy there ever was The site design is clean and understated; the faces on the pictures are young and fabulous...
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Thanksgiving Fonts
In addition to all the wonderful things in our lives to be thankful for this season—loved ones, health, happiness, and Designorati—we thought you might also like to give thanks for some free Thansgiving fonts...
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Free Thanksgiving Fonts
In addition to all the wonderful things in our lives to be thankful for this season—loved ones, health, happiness, and Designorati—we thought you might also like to give thanks for some free* Thansgiving fonts...
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Type Bits-The Secret Word is “Creepy”
FontHaus and MyType get in the Halloween Spririt In thier periodic mailing to customers, online fontmonger FontHaus “gets creepy”: Vistors to FontHaus’s online presence (www...
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FontExplorer X VS Extenis Suitcase X1
You often hear about the comparison between Quark and InDesign. Here is a like for like comparison between two excellent font management applications...
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Space Monkey and Other Photoshop Easter Eggs!
Photoshop has a long history of Easter eggs and other oddities Hold down the Command key (PC: Ctrl), select Photoshop->About Photoshop… and you’ll see this: It’s the latest Photoshop Easter egg, those goofy little jokes software developers work into their products just for fun...
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Tutorial: Manipulating Grayscale Images for Better Bitmaps
What do you do when you need a bitmap image but only have a grayscale image, possibly with midtones...
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PDF: History, Features & Co.
While this is not a complete guide to PDFs, here you will find the major types of PDFs and their purposes Like for any other graphics, a person using a PDF has to make sure he is using the right one for the job...
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Is Illustrator’s “Convert To Grayscale” Option Press Worthy?
Is it better to convert a photo in Illustrator or in Photoshop...
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Use Picture Package to Show Off Your Kids
Photoshop can create a set of printable pics with just a few clicks I think Photoshop’s Automate menu (under the File menu) is wonderful...
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IAN Symbol Libraries for Illustrator
Get over 1500 free custom made vector symbols for Illustrator The IAN symbol libraries contain over 1500 custom made vector symbols in 32 categories...
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In-House vs. Strategy: a 360-Degree View of Working for the Man
The following is an excerpt of a recent conversation between Designorati:In-House and Designorati:Strategy...
