Archive: 2005 November

New high-end photo-processing sofware from Apple highlights specific workflow problems for pro photogs; may herald new era of innovation, says writer When Apple Computer debuted its new high-end photographic management software Aperture™, conventional wisdom, noting functional similarities between it and Adobe’s Photoshop™, seemed to assume that Apple was ramping up to deliver a “Photoshop Killer”...

2005-Nov-30 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Fontlab completes migration of workhorse font creator to modern Mac OS Six months ago, Fontlab Ltd.(http://www.fontlab...

2005-Nov-30 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

TIFF is a graphic format best suited for printing purposes...

2005-Nov-30 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Mozilla releases newest version of standards-compliant browserflagship: New features boasted, new Mozilla.com site launched The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox version 1.5...

2005-Nov-30 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Have You Seen

“Edge Contrast” is an option of the Magnetic Lasso tool, and used to be one in the Magnetic Pen tool before it was absorbed into the Freeform Pen tool’s options...

2005-Nov-30 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features

Geared toward hobbyists, Corel Painter Essentials 3 has a few things full Painter doesn’t, like Auto Painting, and cloning a painting has never been easier...

2005-Nov-30 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Graphic Design | Illustration | Reviews

Some hints to future trends with CS3 and Quark have large implications for Photoshop and what it will do years from now This article on QuarkVsInDesign...

2005-Nov-29 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features | News

Working with spot colours and the Swatches Palette There might be times when you will need to place images in InDesign which contain spot colours...

2005-Nov-29 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | Tutorials

It wasn’t so long ago that conventional wisdom said the Browser Wars were over, and Microsoft had won...

2005-Nov-29 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Web Design | Features

Mapping displaying regional “chunks” abstract information, make certain impressions A famous choropleth map – Electoral College results – from the 2004 US presidential elections (credit:”Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results“, Gastner, Shalizi, and Newman, Univerisity of Michigan)...

2005-Nov-27 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features | News

The “Grabber Tool” is an old name for what is now called the Hand Tool...

2005-Nov-27 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features | Tutorials

Here’s how you use channels to create spot colours in Photoshop How many times have you wondered why, no matter how much you save spot colours in other applications, you cannot preserve a spot color in Photoshop...

2005-Nov-26 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features | Tutorials

As a follow up to the article, entitled, “The Big Squeeze” in which I outlined the challenges and progress made by the print community, I ended the article by challenging the creative community by asking a simple question...

2005-Nov-25 | Cate Indiano | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

A Roundup of Newly Announced Fonts. This time: T...

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

Listen to the company that listens Hate it or love it, Quark is changing...

2005-Nov-25 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

An intriguing survey, sent to a list of chosen, reveals the secrets of the two forever-enemies. My name is XPress, QuarkXPress...

2005-Nov-25 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

“GIF87a” is the bitmap graphics format originally created in 1987 by CompuServe as a standard for Internet images...

2005-Nov-25 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features

Noted design agency debuts new look website, invites comments Segura, Inc...

2005-Nov-24 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Creative Culture | Web Design | News

Creator of antique-style fonts announces new offerings New fonts from Archive Type Via email to its news subscribers, typefounder Archive Type has announced the debut of five new fonts, bringing its total range to 35...

2005-Nov-23 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

Survey of wired creatives asks pointed questions about future software wants, seems to drop big revealing hints about upcoming Adobe/Quark releases. But are they just educated guesses...

2005-Nov-23 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Find out what JPEG stands for, how it works, its uses and pitfalls I was crawling around forums and I noticed a few questions related to graphic formats and their capabilities...

2005-Nov-23 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Cartographic researcher makes public his findings of Soviet military mapping of Britain and Ireland The desire to have accurate maps of your adversaries in global politics and conflict is self-evident...

2005-Nov-23 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features | News

Reference documents now available at the Adobe OpenType web site Two new OpenType reference documents have just been released by Adobe and are available at Adobe’s OpenType information web page, http://store...

2005-Nov-23 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Have You Seen

“Pixel depth” refers to the number of tones a pixel can display, determined by the bits used to display the pixel...

2005-Nov-23 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features

The final installment of our four-part series covers the Extract filter, a powerful tool to remove backgrounds The Extract tool was added to Photoshop back with version 5...

2005-Nov-22 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features | Tutorials