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Archive: 2006 January
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Dynamic Text In Flash
Dynamic Flash doesn’t have to hurt, I promise.
Let’s face it, as a designer you probably don’t have time to make minor updates to every web site you’ve ever worked on, which means you have to make this process as easy as possible for your clients. This is why we create dynamic sites. I’ve seen countless tutorials explaining dynamic text in Flash go on and on for pages with several necessary companion files, all of which are overkill. In a few painless steps (six, in fact) you can make updating the copy of your Flash movie as uncomplicated as editing a .txt file.
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Headline design tips
Don’t believe everything you learned in journalism school; becoming great at headline design is a learning process with a lot of room for flexibility and creativity.
Are you making the most of your headline options? From font sizes and choices to different ways to layer information, here are some tips gleaned mainly from experience:
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Tab Leaders, Drop Caps, and Hanging Punctuation in InDesign and QuarkXPress.
Basic how-to information on three tools in your typographic toolbox.
If you use them right, you aren’t using them all the time, but when you need to use them, you ought to know how. Here’s the basic skinny on three well-known but somewhat taken-for-granted typographic filips.
Read more on Tab Leaders, Drop Caps, and Hanging Punctuation in InDesign and QuarkXPress….
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InDesign Typographer Quotes, Bulleted Lists & Dot Leaders
A few quick tips for common tasks
Designers and Desktop Publishers perform many typographical tasks while designing. Typography used to be handled by specialists who did nothing else, but in modern times, with applications that are always in development, typographical tasks have become easier and can be done with the same equipment and software used to produce layouts–designers have to know the basics of typography as no one else is taking care of that for them now. This tutorial will cover three amongst the most common typographical tasks as they are handled with InDesign CS & CS2: the use of typographer, proper, quotes, bulleted lists and dot leaders.
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Illustrator StartUp YOUR Way!
Frank Sinatra did it “his†way. Other crooners across the decades have done it “their†wayâ€. Now you can sing “I did it ‘MY’ Way†every time you open Adobe Illustrator open with a default set of symbols, brushes, and even colors that are your choice rather than Adobe’s.
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Adobe Acrobat gets better and better at preflighting PDF files for resolution, fonts and color. But with Photoshop, Illustrator and a little ingenuity, you can preflight all these things without the usual preflighting tools.
Read more on Preflight PDFs With Photoshop, Illustrator And Acrobat…
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Ask Designorati: Creating Hexachrome Images
Ask Designorati is a new feature at Designorati.com devoted to answering readers’ questions. If you have a question about Photoshop or Photoshop-related software and techniques, click here to ask your question and stay tuned for a response!
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Saturday’s Winner of Xara Xtreme is Announced!
We have had a great week at Designorati:Illustration; all this week we’ve been drawing names for a copy of Xara Xtreme compliments of Xara Ltd and Designorati! I am pleased to announce the final winner of copy seven of Xara Xtreme is Grace Sturgess.
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Product Review Policies
The subject of certain policies and guidelines relevant to product reviews has been a hot topic around the Designorati conference table over the past week. We would like your input on some of it.
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Map Keys 2006-01-28
More news brief carographical goodness
In this edition: The Chinese World Map of 1418, did they or didn’t they?; Mexican Migrant Maps; and photos that are the next best thing to actually being there.
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This Group Sucks! I Demand to Join!
What would you say to gain access to 1,300 graphic designers?
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Type Slugs 2005-01-27
The Great Compositor in the Sky keeps kicking ‘em out
News briefs this time: Typographic derivation results in a settlement for FSI Fonts, another celebrated typographer passes beyond the veil, Quark 7 public beta gets the shakedown cruise from type lovers, Monotype’s just wild about Saffron, and a regional newspaper’s growing pains are assuaged by…losing Helvetica?
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Friday’s Copy of Xara Xtreme is Awarded to Dennis!
Xara Xtreme Winner Number 6 for Friday, January 27 has been drawn!
I am pleased to announce Friday’s winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme from Xara LTd and Designorati is Dennis! Congratulations, Dennis!
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Thursday’s Winner of Xara Xtreme is…
Five days of this first Xara Day week, and five copies of Xara Xtreme have been given away: Ian is the latest lucky person!
It is my pleasure to announce that Ian has been drawn as the lucky winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme for Thursday! I will be sending your name and email address to Xara so they can contact you for your mailing address. Congratulations!
For the rest of you, you still have a chance: we have two more copies to give away! -
Parent Sheet, Definition of
Flyers, business cards, letterhead an so on are not usually printed on sheets of paper of the size we see them every day. Printing firms use bigger sheets of paper that will contain more copies or pages of a certain publication, flyer and so on. These big sheets, called parent sheets, are then folded and cut as needed to give us the printed product in the final size, which is what we see.
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Printed VS Online Communication, Which One Is More Important?
You pay for magazines and newspapers, would you do so for news sites and blogs?
While navigating the net I came across an interesting question from someone who had just seen BlogIt, readers who want to avail themselves of the content on that site have to pay subscription a fee–the question was therefore whether it was worthed to pay for such a service.
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Xara Day: Xara Xtreme’s Blend Tool Basics
It’s the first Xara Day here at Designorati:Illustration! The fourth Thursday of each month, Designorati:Illustration will bring you a feature article about one of the best illustration packages on the market: Xara Xtreme. This month on Xara Day we look at the Blend Tool in Xara Xtreme. It’s one tool with many possibilities!
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Wednesday’s Winner of Xara Xtreme is…
Winner number 3 for Wednesday, January 25 has been drawn! Mike Smick, come on down!
I am pleased to announce Wednesday’s winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme from Xara LTd and Designorati is Mike Smick. Congratualtions, Mike!
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e frontier Announces Manga Studio 3.0 and Partnership with TOKYOPOP Inc.
Software Allows Artists to Create Digital Manga and Comics
Press Release
Scotts Valley, Calif., January 25, 2005 — e frontier announces the release of Manga Studio 3.0, a manga and comic book creation software program designed for aspiring and professional artists. Manga Studio contains everything needed to create high-quality, manga-style comics without the use of other graphic software. e frontier is partnering with TOKYOPOP, the #1 publisher of manga in the U.S, to release Manga Studio 3.0 in the United States.
Read more on e frontier Announces Manga Studio 3.0 and Partnership with TOKYOPOP Inc….
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Breaking News: Disney Acquires Pixar for $7.4 Bn
Disney acquires erstwhile computer animation partner famed for cartoon hits such such as ‘Toy Story’; Steve Jobs to become member of Disney board
The Walt Disney Company have just announced that they have aquired Pixar Studios for an asking price of USD$ 7.4 Billion, according to a Disney press release dated 24 Jan 2006.
Pixar, which began life in the mid-1980s as the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd before being spun off as Pixar in 1986 and subsequently being purchased by Steve Jobs (then head of NeXT) for a mere USD $10 million, began with animated shorts and commericals before moving on to partener with The Walt Disney Company in the mid-90′s. This has been a productive partnership which has resulted in a string of Pixar-produced hits, including Toy Story, The Incredibles, and Finding Nemo, as Disney’s own animated productions debuted to reviews that were, at best, comparatively ambivlalent.
Most germane to the design community in terms of tools, Pixar also produces the animation software RenderMan.
The news is particularly interesting in light of the recent history of cool relations between Disney and Pixar. The two companies broke off talks aimed at extending their distribution deal in 2004, reportedly due to a strained relationship between Jobs and then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Disney losing Pixar looked to be one of the big imminent stories. This deal was set to expire this year.
However, with the change of leadership signified by new Disney CEO Robert Iger, once-cold relations thawed, resulting in a deal that will not only grant Disney access to the creative talent of Pixar for the forseeable future, but also inducts Apple head Jobs into the Mickey Mouse Club; not only will Jobs join the Disney board but also become its largest shareholder.
At this writing, Pixar is set to release its next feature, Cars, which was to have been the final film under the Disney distribution deal, this summer.
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Scribus Team Announces Version 1.3.2
Scribus, the open source DTP program formerly only for Linux, is now available for Windows and Macintosh
Egalité is the name of Scribus version 1.3.2, which offers a number of enhancements, such as improved TIFF and PSD support, PDF Export and more. From the Scribus team:
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Tuesday’s Xara Xtreme Winner Announced!
Winner number 3 for Tuesday, January 24 has been drawn!
I am pleased to announce Tuesday’s winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme from Xara LTd and Designorati is Nick Gagne. Congratualtions, Nick!
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Adobe to Dramatically Accelerate Collaboration for Product Design and Development with New Acrobat 3D Software
Adobe Acrobat 3DNewest Member of Acrobat Family Significantly Extends Visualization and Publishing of 3D Designs Harnessing Free Adobe Reader and Adobe PDF
Press Release
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 23, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Acrobat® 3D, new desktop software that helps extend document-based 3D design collaboration capabilities to virtually anyone across and beyond global organizations. Using Acrobat 3D and harnessing the reach of Adobe Reader®*, extended project teams can more quickly, securely and cost-effectively drive to completion critical communication processes that require 3D visualization.
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Alien Skin Software Releases Exposure
PRESS RELEASE
Raleigh, NC (January 24, 2006)—Alien Skin Software today released Exposure, an all-new plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® and other compatible host programs. Exposure brings the look and feel of film to digital photography. Digital photographers can now simulate current and discontinued film stocks, as well as recreate their signature look as a one-click effect. Exposure also simulates darkroom and studio effects such as push and cross processing. Moreover, saturation, light temperature, dynamic range, softness, sharpness, and the addition of realistic grain can be managed in one place.
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Monday’s Xara Xtreme Winner Announced!
Winner number 2 for Monday, January 23 has been drawn!
I am pleased to announce Monday’s winner of a copy of Xara Xtreme from Xara LTd and Designorati is Chris Wunderlich. Congratualtions, Chris!
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