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Archive: 2006 October
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Book Photoshop CS2 Gone Wild
Filters are what makes Photoshop so much fun. Author Sherry London shows how to use and—in some cases—abuse filters to achieve some wild effects. Whether or not they will be useful to professional designers is debatable.
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Professional Photoshop, Fifth Edition, Coming Soon
Dan Margulis announced recently that the next edition of Professional Photoshop will be larger, mostly rewritten, and—unfortunately—the final edition.
I had covered the announcement last spring that Dan Margulis would stop writing, and his recent message to the Applied Color Theory user group reinforced this as well as gave great new details on the latest edition of his seminal book, Professional Photoshop. Margulis said the availability of the new publication will be shortly before the December 7, 2006 date given by his publisher Peachpit Press, and it also sounds like the book will be a radical advancement from the previous edition:
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Honoring U&lc: New Book Enshrines a Singular Newspaper
Recent book chronicles history of the periodical, explains why it was important
My favorite spreads in the recent book from Mark Batty Publishers, U&lc: Influencing Design & Typography, edited by John D. Barry, are the pages from pp 62 to 65, exhibiting an article from the periodcal’s number Volume 10 Numer 2, published in 1983.
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Adobe Releases Soundbooth Beta, To Compete With Soundtrack Pro?
Adobe has released another beta that seems to stand against a similar Apple product.
I just saw the news that Adobe Labs had released a beta of a new sound editing application called Soundbooth. Here’s the skinny from the Adobe Labs site:
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Lightroom Is Now “Photoshop Lightroom”
Interesting change in Lightroom’s name. Is it a branding tactic, or does it foreshadow a Photoshop/Lightroom combination similar to the old File Browser?
While researching the release of Adobe’s new sound application Soundbooth, I noticed that Adobe Lightroom is now called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, currently in beta version 4.1. I installed a copy of the beta, but it still calls itself Adobe Lightroom on the About screen and in the header graphic.
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Quark Does Flash!
A few weeks ago Quark VS InDesign.com told you Quark was set to announce a brand new product and predicted what that new product might be–a Flash editor utilizing the familiar QuarkXPress environment.
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Book InDesign Type
I think Nigel French‘s InDesign Type is one of the best design books of 2006—great knowledge of typography in general, InDesign in particular and well-written to boot. Too bad there’s some errata in unlikely places.
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The Famous “Four-Color” Problem
The “Four-Color” problem sprang from a map, but is really about mathematics.
A Suggestion for Coloring a US Map (from Robin Thomas’s proof page)Somewhere along the line the carto-enthusiast will hear of the famous tautology that, if you wish to color a map along the lines of the illustration (to differentiate different regions, as was popular in the old Hammond and Rand McNally world atlases of the mid-20th Century), you will need no more than four colors.
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Twisty Table Views Large Documents Creatively
Quite Cool, but we don’t think it’s going to replace the scroll wheel…
Using the Onomy Tilty Table (image copyright OnomyWhile surfing The Map Room we came upon a most delightfully interesting display device. Developed by Onomy Labs, the Tilty Table is a device that can be used to view immensely large diagrams and flat objects, with a truly intriguing difference; it’s by tilting and turning the table that the viewer zooms and pans. As a matter of fact, the most recent development in the Tilty is the so-called “Twisty Table”, which seems particularly suited to satellite map viewing:
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Strange Maps, Strange Worlds
New blog exhibits the weird and the interesting
I like maps. I like weird maps, the kind you won’t find in a regular atlas. Maps of countries that never existed – or never will exist.
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Type Design: Where To Start?
In Which The Budding Type Designer Finds Himself At A Sort of Impasse
Two weeks ago, when we made a decision to go with FontLab Studio as our tool of choice, we’d thought the hard part was over.
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Freeware Friday: The Best At The Adobe Design Center
I often look to the Adobe Design Center for the best in tips, tricks, tutorials and freeware. For this installment of Freeware Friday I thought I’d scour the Design Center for the best Photoshop freeware money can’t buy.
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Rand McNally at 150: Back on Financial Course
The king of American map publishing comes back strongly after being passed up by online mapping
The Chicago Sun-Times gives us a snapshot of America’s preeminent paper map publisher, who grew into the undoubted titan on American map publishing, even to the point of acquiring Thomas Bros maps in 1999 only to enter bankruptcy in 2003 after mounting a failing effort to keep up with internet mappers such as Mapquest and Google.
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Valuable resource changes its URL
Via a short message to the Maphist mailing list, Paul Anderson advises us that he’s moved his Gallery of Map Projection to a new URL: http://www.galleryofmapprojections.com/.
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Washington Map Society Announces Ristow Prize Winners
Winner Gavin Hollis Scores for paper on on map literacy in early modern England
The Washington Map Society have recently announced the winner and Honorable mention for the 2006 Walter W. Ristow Prize:
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A Couple Of Professional Opportunities In Cartography
The Leventhal Center and Yale University both seek employees
Notice of a couple of opportunities for professional map librarians have landed in our inbox via the MapHist mailing list in the past week or so. They look like valuable work for just the right person and, as far as we are aware, applications are still being accepted:
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DTP Tools and Pariah S. Burke Announce Page Control 1.0 plug–in for Adobe InDesign
What do you get when a design & publishing workflow guru teams up with a developer with a history of building productivity enhancing InDesign plug-ins? You get the Holy Grail of layout.
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Book Adobe Camera Raw For Digital Photographers Only
Rob Sheppard’s 2005 book on Camera Raw does a wonderful job of demystifying the technology and developing a workflow that is simple and effective.
Adobe Camera Raw For Digital Photographers Only is a fine book for digital photographers of all skill levels, especially those a step below professional like myself. The ideal reader is probably someone who currently shoots JPEG and gets a lot out of their images with Photoshop, or someone who shoots Raw because they hear it’s superior—but balks at the complex Camera Raw interface and simply processes with default settings so they can make the real tweaks with familiar curves and levels. If this describes you, this book is for you.
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What is “creep” in Desktop Publishing?
And how do you compensate for it?
Since we are in Halloween mood and creeping “monsters” knock at our doors asking for candies, I thought it was very appropriate to treat a subject such as our own creeping desktop publishing projects. Yet, if I have to tell the truth, I was just visiting one of my favourite sites about DTP and I saw an interesting article about creep and how to compensate it and I thought I should bring it to your attention. Jacci Howard Bear from About Desktop Publishing does a good job in answering a question of one of her forum members about the subject with this very useful article.
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UK’s Conservatives Communicate Conservatively With Lucida
Britain’s Conservative Party launches a new identity, with a logotype in Lucida
Political parties perhaps understand as well as anyone else that the medium, many times, is the message. So, when a political party crafts its branding, one could rightfully expect it to go with elements that express positive qualities of the meanings of the words which in turn are its actual communication.
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British Television Icon Rebrands With Fontsmith
New “BBC One” font replaces stalwart Gill Sans
The new-look typographc style for BBC One Television, divised by FontsmithGill Sans, developed by Eric Gill, inspired by Johnston’s Underground, is a quintessentially British font–so much so, in fact, that it has did yeoman’s duty in graphics for the BBC for decades. But on 7 October 2006, the reign of Gill has come to an end at the BBC, in favor of a custom (or, as they say there ‘bespoke’) typeface developed for the BBC by Jason Smith’s Fontsmith typefoundry.
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Researcher Warps Waldseemüller For Historical Insights
Library of Congress researcher blogs about scientific method, historical accuracy
John Hessler is a researcher whose interests run to the application of analytical methods to historcally significant cartography. In his new blog, Warping Waldseemüller, he discusses what he finds along the way.
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In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Designorati scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free Halloween fonts–living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–and they’re all free!
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Type Development: Which Tool Will It Be?
The tools reviewed, we take an hard look at what we have, and make our choice.
In the previous two articles in this series, we’ve reviewed two rather remarkable offereings from FontLab Ltd that, in theory, allow any wired designer an opportunity to design their very own usable digital fonts. The contenders: TypeTool 2, at $99, and FontLab Studio 5, at $649.
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InDesign Conference Launches Podcast
This week BarryCon, the organizer of the Creative Suite Conferences and the InDesign Conferences, debuted a free video podcast. The opening round is a tutorial from Sandee Cohen, aka VectorBabe, and its guaranteed to make you ooh and ahh.
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