Archive: 2007 October

The news has been abuzz lately about German authorities' astonishing methods to restore a pedophile's photo that had been modified by Photoshop's Twirl filter. In reality, restoring a twirled photo is fairly easy—I will show you how.

2007-Oct-27 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | News | Tutorials

Color measurement and management innovator acquires the color authority

2007-Oct-25 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Graphic Design | News | TOP STORIES

A bunch of people have found and posted the interesting stuff, so you don't have to.

2007-Oct-25 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Cartography | News

I’ve just slogged my way through GPU Gems 3, the latest in the best-selling GPU Gems series, and found it to be an excellent book—thorough, well-designed, well-produced, and expertly written.

2007-Oct-23 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Graphic Design | Reviews | TOP STORIES

Sarcastic and snarky, The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks takes the greengrocers apostrophe concept to the next level

2007-Oct-22 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | News | Reviews

An offering from Büro Boris Dworschak, it's a spare, structural line with curved corners, and it's free from Dei Gestalten Verlag.

2007-Oct-21 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Features | News

Survey of the life and writing of PBM hard to put down, gives intimate glimpses of a life and some of the people it touched.

2007-Oct-18 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | Creative Culture | News | Reviews

Snap Art by Alien Skin makes it easy to create quick illustrations from photographs. Photoshop has artistic filters too but Snap Art takes photo-illustration to a new level.

2007-Oct-17 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Reviews | TOP STORIES

Novice and expert Photoshop users alike can get thrown by the way Photoshop treats black as rich black when making CMYK separations. This can be avoided with some copying and pasting of channels, but you can also tweak a single color setting to make Photoshop do the work for you.

2007-Oct-15 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Tutorials | TOP STORIES

A mark designed for efficiency.

2007-Oct-14 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Typography | Features

Substantial but small book quick reference for those little things we may tend to forget, or for help in hitting the ground running in an unfamiliar territory

2007-Oct-11 | Samuel John Klein | Filed: Graphic Design | Reviews

New free plug-in for InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3 puts keyboard shortcuts within easy reach.

2007-Oct-05 | Pariah S. Burke | Filed: Graphic Design | News

Swift 3D, Electric Rain's 3D vector graphics tool, has moved forward to version 5 with an impressive array of new features. It's Windows-only for now, but Mac users won't have to wait long: Swift 3D 5 for Mac is scheduled to be released before year's end.

2007-Oct-03 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Web Design | News | TOP STORIES

The Photoshop line of products is now the "Photoshop family." What does that mean for everyday users?

2007-Oct-02 | Jeremy Schultz | Filed: Photoshop | Features | TOP STORIES