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Archive: 2006 August
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Using GCR To Separate A Black Graphic
Sometimes, a bitmap graphic (such as a logo or line art) needs to be converted into a CMYK file. When that happens, separation problems can happen. This technique exploits the power of Color Settings to make the conversion hassle-free.
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Freeware Friday: Letterfu
Free PDF Patterns make lettter writing a snap–all you need is the stamp
It’s been said that the fine art of letter-writing–the kind that doesn’t require a computer–is a lost art. Perhaps it is going out of style, but if it is, the not-so-ancient-art of Letterfu may well bring it back.
Read more on Freeware Friday: Letterfu…
- Freeware Friday: LPS Guides Fixer
Yes, even guides need to be straightened out from time to time… when you use QuarkXPress…
From proud Italian compatriots (now don’t you say I am bias) here’s a little fix to a bug in QuarkXPress 7. From Emerasoft:
- FontBros Opens Up Shop
Retro font goodness from hot typographers–from the crew who brought you FontDiner
For the past ten years, the crew at FontDiner have been offering you cool retro typography through a funky retro-ized interface at FontDiner.com.
- TypeCon 2007 Set For Seattle
Washington’s largest city to host next year’s meet
The buzz we’ve heard hereabout is that, in the wake of an apparently-successful TypeCon2006, “The Boston T Party”, the location for TypeCon2007, whose tagline is yet to be determined, will be Seattle, Washington. Tipped dates are 1-5 August, 2007.
Has Illustrator’s Save for Web stopped working the way you know it should? Tried resetting program preferences and it didn’t fix it? Here’s why, and how to get Save for Web back!
- 2006 Photoshop Cook-Off Deadline Coming Fast
An interesting contest for Photoshop users is going to be deadlining in a few days. If you have this weekend free and feel like doing some cookin’, go for it!
The contest in question is O’Reilly‘s 2006 Photoshop Cook-Off; I just learned about it at last night’s InDesign User Group meeting in Des Moines. I am away this weekend and won’t have time to make an entry, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t.
- Freeware Friday: The Michael Wilcox School of Color
Benefits include newsletters and your own gallery page
I recently wrote about color bias theory, the concept that paints in primary colors are not pure and that by being aware of the bias of your primary colors (how yellow your blue is, for instance) that color mixing becomes less of a gamble and more of a logical process.
Read more on Freeware Friday: The Michael Wilcox School of Color…
- Freeware Friday: Photo to Sketch
How many times have you ever wanted to get your friends’ or family members’ photo to look like a drawing?
Whether you do desktop publishing or not, you probably had to deal with graphics at some point, maybe to create a personalized birthday card or just to do something fun. One of the nice things that can be done is to get a photo to look like a sketch, just to give it that taste, that… something to add personality to it. You can of course use progams like Photoshop, but for the occasional user it’s bound to be a little too much both in costs and in learning curve.
- Freeware Friday: InterfaceLIFT
Designers need pretty desktops too, and InterfaceLIFT can fill that order with lots of free quality icons for Mac and Windows.
Want to spruce up your desktop? InterfaceLIFT has lots of beautiful icons for both Mac and Windows, as well as high quality Mac Destop images and Windows wallpaper in a variety of sizes, many for the widescreen monitors we all love.
- Edward I’s Welsh “New Towns” Digtial Atlas Now Online
Archaeological data on 11th C. colonial settlements in Wales now available to all
A section of Abertswyth, Wales, UK, displayed by the new digital atlast of Edward I’s “New Towns” (Click to enlarge)Read more on Edward I’s Welsh “New Towns” Digtial Atlas Now Online…
- Straightening Buildings, Part 2: How-To Use Distort And Perspective
Back in April and May I had a couple articles showing how to straighten buildings with the Crop tool and the Lens Correction filter. Now we’ll look at a more basic method that can do the job: Distort and Perspective transformations.
Read more on Straightening Buildings, Part 2: How-To Use Distort And Perspective…
- Great Packages Have Type Appeal
Well-done and clever typography makes packages stand out
This month’s FontShop e-newsletter throws a timely spotlight on packaging made appealing by well-done type. We here at Designorati:Typography were particularly compelled by two examples therein.
- Monotype Imaging Acquires Linotype GmbH
Two typographic gians merge, a century after each is founded
On 2 August 2006, Monotype Imaging, based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, and Lintotyp GmbH, based in Bad Homburg, Germany, announced that Monotype had aquired Linotype, which until this time had been a subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Read Monotype’s press release, Linotype’s press release.)
- Upcoming Cartography Conference News
SHD Slated for Portland, Or; ICHC 2007 calls for papers
SHD 2006, Portland, Oregon USA
The Society for Historical Discoveries have finalized the program for the 47th annual conference, which is slated to be held in just one month’s time, in Portland, Oregon, from 7-9 September, 2006. The SHD welcomes not only members to this forum but anyone with an interest in maps, exploration, and discoveries in general.
- Font Haus Releases Cloister Initials As Font
Popular Classic of EPS initials now available as TT, PS, OT
Cloister Initials was originally designed by Frederic Goudy and set loose in the wild by ATF in 1919. Since 1993, FontHaus have been selling it in digital form but in EPS, not font, format.
- Freeware Friday: LPS Guides Fixer
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