Archive: 2006 February

Loading external MovieClips is one of the easiest ways to keep your SWF file size down and and load times low...

2006-Feb-28 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Tutorials

The Halftone Pattern filter can make activate your images from the mundane to the exciting! Here’s how to recreate an old comic-book style with it...

2006-Feb-28 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Tutorials

Have you ever had to design a project which included envelopes? You most likely had to choose the type of envelopes as well...

2006-Feb-28 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Tutorials

Don’t like the keyboard shortcuts Illustrator provides? Want to use the same shortcuts you use in another program, or maybe you just find other keyboard combinations more convenient...

2006-Feb-28 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

Don’t you just hate it when someone else wears the same dress to a party? So does your iPod. No, really. Dress up your iPod with iPod Tatoos

2006-Feb-26 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Have You Seen

A recent discussion over my recent duotone tutorials have made me think about my attraction to Photoshop’s scintillating Curves. I like Curves...

2006-Feb-26 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features

Don’t you just hate it when someone else wears the same dress to a party? So does your iPod. No, really. Dress up your iPod with iPod Tattoos...

2006-Feb-25 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Creative Culture | Features

In this edition: Archive Type, FontHaus, and MyFonts all have pretty new things. Archive Type Debuts Three New We’ve written about Archive Type before, and we admire thier work...

2006-Feb-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

In this edition: Magnetic North on the move; Moble GPS sets as bad as cell phones for driving?; Not the real thing in Shanghai; Google Earth for Panther...

2006-Feb-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

Page One design faces the design challenge of being the most important page in the newspaper: It’s the jumping off point for the rest of the paper, the place to showcase the big stories, and faces the constricts of above-the-fold design...

2006-Feb-25 | Dhyana Sansoucie | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Converting a full color (CMYK) EPS file into a one-color or two-color image can be tricky in Photoshop, but there are a couple ways to do it right...

2006-Feb-24 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | Illustration | Photoshop | Tutorials

Those two cut-up beanie-boy cut-up cutups, Ron and Joe give you twelve free images Ron and Joe are two fellows who don’t seem quite right in the head...

2006-Feb-24 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News

Every other Friday, I will be telling you about two freeware programs I like to use and where to find them...

2006-Feb-24 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Features

For this edition of Xara Day, Sara Froehlich takes you step-by-step on the way to create bevels in Xara Xtreme

2006-Feb-23 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Have You Seen

The Bevel Tool allows you to interactively add a bevel to an edge of an object giving depth and shape...

2006-Feb-22 | Sara Froehlich | Filed: Illustration | Tutorials

PDF preflight pioneer Markzware jumps ahead releasing Flightcheck 5...

2006-Feb-22 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Cari Jansen is, like Nick Hodge, based in Australia and maintains a great website. Cari Jansen is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Print Specialist who maintains a good website at carijansen.com...

2006-Feb-21 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | Illustration | Photoshop | Features | Reviews

Extensis merges Suitcase and Font Reserve into a slick new machine. The result is the best of both worlds for Mac users

2006-Feb-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Have You Seen

Extensis melds two popular type managers into one: evolved application or FrankenTypeManager...

2006-Feb-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Reviews

Crossing the Rubicon in the journey from the fantastical to the real...

2006-Feb-17 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

He was about 102º off. Why would such a brilliant navigator make such a huge mistake...

2006-Feb-17 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | Features

Capitalizing on the success of its recently-concluded CS Power Tour, Event Producer Barrycon announces expanded Creative Suite and InDesign Conference sessions for this May 15-20 in Chicago, featuring an expanded speaker line-up...

2006-Feb-17 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Create and manage PDF documents easily for free Those who can’t afford the fully fledged version of Acrobat Professional will be happy to know that they can create PDFs with the free PDF995 suite...

2006-Feb-17 | Elisabetta Bruno | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Duotones can be used in an unexpected way to create designs that look like they came right off the letterpress

2006-Feb-16 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Have You Seen

My How-To tutorial this week showed how duotones, when created with the right curves, can combine a full range of values with extra tonal depth...

2006-Feb-16 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Illustration | Photoshop | Tutorials