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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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When Illustrator’s Save for Web Doesn’t
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Edward I’s Welsh “New Towns” Digtial Atlas Now Online
Archaeological data on 11th C...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
