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Archive: 2005 December
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Photoshop Jargon: Precise Cursor
A “Precise Cursor” is a crosshairs that can be used in lieu of any of Photoshop’s brush tools, brush-based tools or other tools such as the Eyedropper...
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Stock.xchng, Free Photostock Website, Upgrades to Version 6
Free photo storehouse announces faster, more powerful servers, host of new features The free photo storehouse, stock.xchng (http://www.sxc...
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Muggle Magic Creates Wizardly Type
Crazy Diamond Designs wields a typographic wand The distinctive looks of the type faces in the universe of Harry Potter, from the pages of the Daily Prophet to the Marauder’s map, may well be wizardly but they couldn’t have happened without the insights of a couple of Muggles, namely, Alex Moseley and Roger Mills, of England’s Crazy Diamond Designs...
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About Those Ellipses …
The three dots defined, and style thoughts considered. We see them all over, and we intutively know what they mean, even if we aren’t typographically inclined...
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The Washington Map Society Releases “The Portolan” No. 64
Unique DC-based journal for all has articles of interest The Washington Map Society (www.washmap...
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Vlogmap.com Uses World Map To Create Worldwide Community
Using Google Maps to mash up individal members, website creates community of users A section of the world map display of video bloggers (”vloggers”) at vlogmap...
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High School Sports Coverage: Design Tips
Covering high school sports to the satisfaction of the local community is one of those Catch 22 challenges of a sports section. No one is ever satisfied...
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Tutorial: PDF Presentations, From PhotoSpin.com
PhotoSpin.com shows us how a PDF can make a neat slide show presentation from Photoshop or Bridge Click here for another good tutorial by Tommy Maloney on creating easy slide shows in Photoshop...
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Frozen Photographic Expedition to the Bottom of the World Yields Breath-Taking Visuals
In early December, PhotoshopNews...
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Photoshop Jargon: Snapshot
A “snapshot” is a temporary saved copy of a Photoshop image in its current History state. To create a snapshot, select New Snapshot… in the History palette’s flyout menu...
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Playing Cards by Buzz Poole
Ante up for an intriguing and eclectic collection of 1930s and 1940s American artwork...
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InDesign The Tools Palette - Part 7
The Gradient Tool and the Gradient Palette. The Gradient Tool The Gradient tool works hand in hand with that palette. All you have to do is to select an object with the Selection tool...
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Win Illustrator CS2 @Work
Win one of five signed copies of Pariah S. Burke’s acclaimed project-based book Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work in Creativepro.com’s weekly giveaway...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
A message from your Desktop Publishing Editor This is a traditional period for many, the time in the year where people make their decisions for the future, make wishes of goodwill for themselves and others, think at the presents for friends and family...
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Photoshop Jargon: FOCOLTONE
“FOCOLTONE” is a system for matching color that is based on percentages of process color. FOCOLTONE 5000, for example, is the color 30C/30M/30Y/30K
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Christmas, By the Numbers
Strange and wonderful numbers from the US Census From the ‘blog Mapz: a GIS Librarian, we find that GISUser...
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Map Projections for One and All
Site supported by Illinios state and powered by a passion for maps and maths has PD PDF content A section of the Airy Minimum-error Azimuthal projection graphic available at the Map Projection Gallery (courtesy Map Projection Gallery) Simple drawings of map projections can be hard to find (the finding of a Mercator display for an illustration for a past article here was something of an adventure)...
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InDesign The Tools Palette - Part 6
The Eyedropper and Measure Tools By default InDesign will show you the Eyedropper Tool in the Tools Palette. However you will see that tool as another tool hidden in its flyout—The Measure Tool...
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Applying Bringhurst To The Web
Richard Rutter applies the Elements to the Web, one at a time Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style (reviewed here) is a lyrical, admired reference, deservedly on many the bookshelf of typographers master as well as tyro...
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Thomas Phinney on Quality
One of the giants of type at Adobe comments and gives insights on what quality means to him Typographer Thomas Phinney of Adobe, at his blog Typblography, takes the time to explain his concerns about font and typeface quality in the post Quality in Typefaces & Fonts...
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Photoshop Jargon: Alpha Channel
An “alpha channel” is a channel that carries pixel transparency data, rather than pixels, and in Photoshop files these are kept as additional channels with masks...
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The Wacom Intuos3 6×11 Wide-Format Tablet
Review: The new Wacom tablet is just the thing for those going to wide-format or dual displays, providing undoubtable power, performance, and just plain good looks...
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An Overview of the Adobe Creative Suite 2
Even if belated, here is an overview of the most powerful publishing package I have ever come across Adobe Creative Suite 2—it’s like the Christmas present I always wanted when I was a kid but that I would never find under the tree, the water in the hot desert the… publishing package that I have always only dreamed of… until Adobe released it...
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Who Does Bastard Measures Right?
Let’s turn a critical eye on the lowly bastard measure. We’ll start with a definition … in case someone has strayed upon this who probably shouldn’t have...
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Podcasts: It’s What’s for Dinner
Watch TV anywhere What’s your pleasure? What’s your obsession? Whatever it is, chances are, there’s a podcast for it...
