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Graphic Design Blog > May 31, 2005

How-To’s Day: Photoshop: Complex Marquee Selections

[The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog - photoshop.weblogsinc.com _] Sometimes selections need to be complex, adding and subtracting from initial selections. If this is second nature to you, to the point where you’ve forgotten the keyboard shortcuts you use because they’re programmed into your cerebellum just how to make your heart pump, don’t read this tutorial from Photoshop InDepth.

PS: When a little is too much

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] When you apply a filter in Photoshop, sometimes you wish you could just lessen the result of the filter a little bit, without having to wait for the entire filter to run on the image again. It’s almost like the filter applied too much effect for your taste. It’s easy to adjust the result of a filter after it has already been applied. You simply go to Filter>Fade or Edit>Fade right after you apply the filter, which will lessen the effect of the filter. Technorati Tags: Adobe, Fade, Photoshop, Filter Tags: Photoshop...

Posted at 07:20 PM

May 31, 2005

How-To’s Day: Photoshop: Complex Marquee Selections

Posted at 07:22 PM

PS: When a little is too much

Posted at 07:20 PM

Adobe to delete some Macromedia software after merge

[Schleifstein.net - digital media art blog] MacNN has an article (..) based on a report from NPD Techworld, they say (...) that the four applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash) are expected to survive the merger, while Fireworks, Freehand, and GoLive will be eliminated.

Posted at 07:18 PM

Some amazing software will cease to exist

[Digital Inspiration] NPD believes that customers will "most definitely" benefit from the merger. For example, integration between Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Flash would enable animators, Web designers and advertising professionals to "streamline their workflows." In the short run, the customer using both Photoshop and Dreamweaver "won’t need to do anything differently." Later, this customer will "probably be able to buy a single suite of tools from Adobe, resulting in significant cost savings."

Posted at 07:16 PM

Discuss: What’s your favorite Actionscript Object?

[Schleifstein.net - digital media art blog] So I obviously love the Camera() object, but what do all you Flash junkies out there get hyped over?

Posted at 07:14 PM

ID: Changing fonts & sizes with arrow keys

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Following up on this tip for selecting fonts, did you know you can change fonts, font sizes, leading and more in Adobe InDesign using the arrow keys? Simply click in the field you want and use the arrow keys to increase measurements, select the next or previous font, etc.. Perfect for making small adjustments.

Posted at 07:14 PM

How-To’s Day - Special All CS2 Edition - 2005-04-05 Tutorials

[The Magazine Design Weblog - magazinedesign.weblogsinc.com _] How-To’s Day is a regular feature of the Design Weblog in which we give you five highly useful how-to tutorials—four from around the Web, and one created specifically for you by yours truly. How-To’s Day is the first, third, and, if there is one, fifth Tuesday of every month.

Posted at 07:11 PM

FlashPaper to become a feature in Acrobat

[Digital Inspiration] Similar to NPD prediction, this report also carries good news from Flash users. Adobe Systems’ impending purchase of Macromedia has raised questions about the future of Flash. But the acquisition makes prospects for Flash-related products even brighter than before as Macromedia gets a much-needed infusion of marketing clout along with some intriguing opportunities for tool synergies.

Posted at 06:52 AM

Gawy Gallery Mini

[Goat People Anonymous] Slide Gawy Slide! Gawy in A Bathing Ape's hottest new outfit Gawy's First Broadway Appearance ...

Posted at 06:51 AM

How to Photograph your user

[Schleifstein.net - digital media art blog] ...

Posted at 06:51 AM

OT - Saving Intown Neighborhoods From Tasteless (Evil) Developers

[DarbyMedia] I don't usually post non-Macromedia related stuff in this category, but I really need some feedback here. As you can see, the house next to ours (ours is on the left) is being torn down. It was previously occupied by the rednecks that grew up in the house and was not maintained well at all.

Posted at 06:50 AM

Considering the Benefits of FAME

[DarbyMedia] Attended the Atlanta MMUG meeting last night. We were presented with a fantastic and thought provoking talk about starting and growing your own business by Justin Beals of Roundbox Media.

Posted at 06:48 AM

How-To’s Day - 2005-03-31 Tutorials

Posted at 06:47 AM

The Photoshop Guru’s Handbook ”” for the intuitive photoshop user.

[CG Explorer] Cg Underground The goal of CgUnderground is to provide an Underground network of information and articles and to provide extra web presence to artists. On Cg Underground you will find inspiring links to 3D CG arists and resources.

Posted at 06:46 AM

May 30, 2005

Adobe Creative Suite 2

[suck | my | blog] oh my god. adobe i love you. Technorati Tags: adobe, Creative Suite, photoshop...

Posted at 08:19 AM

Painlessly Updating Adobe

[K-Squared Ramblings] OK, I’m impressed. I’d always closed down whatever I was doing before, but I decided to just let Adobe Reader update itself while I had a manual...

Posted at 08:19 AM

Why e-Books Have Flopped

[ 8 Ways to Sunday] David Coursey of PDFzone expounds on the eight things that are wrong — and two things that are right — with current e-book publishing and technology.

Posted at 08:17 AM

Is Metro Microsoft's PDF Killer?

[HowToWeb.com: Computer and Technology Blog and Resource] First, the software giant wanted a way to save files from within any Windows program that could then be opened, viewed and shared without needing the specific program that created it. Second, Microsoft wanted to use the same method for sending data to a printer that it uses for displaying data on screen. So Metro uses the same method for describing and understanding graphics and text that Longhorn's Avalon graphics engine uses.

Posted at 08:16 AM

Help! Help! I’ve been sIFRized!

[Jefte.net] I spent a good amount of time staring at headlines with cut off bottoms before I finally landed upon the values that worked. You are not styling the flash, but rather a dummy text only version of the headline that is created a split second before displaying the page to the viewer. This dummy version attempts to mimic the flash font’s letter spacing and size so the javascript can accurately determine the real estate to occupy with the flash replacement.

Posted at 08:15 AM

Adobe Photoshop CS2

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] As part of Adobe Creative Suite 2.0, Photoshop CS2 integrates better than the old version with Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2, and InDesign CS2, thanks in large part to Adobe Version Cue 2.0 and the new Adobe Bridge file-management applications. On its own, Photoshop CS2 gives professional photographers a good reason to upgrade, largely because of the new version's support for Camera Raw 3.0 and Digital Negative images and tools to reduce noise and optical lens distortion. Web designers will also appreciate that more elements of Adobe ImageReady CS2 are integrated within Photoshop CS2. Those folks wanting only to catalog and clean up snapshots for family albums, however, should look to Apple's iPhoto (part of the iLife suite) or to Corel PaintShop Pro 9.0 instead.

Posted at 08:13 AM

Adobe details Creative Suite update

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] New in CS2 will be Adobe Bridge, a redesigned file browser, and Adobe Stock Photos, a service that will give customers quick access to stock art from several leading providers, said Caleb Belohlavek, a product manager at Adobe.

Posted at 08:11 AM

May 29, 2005

But what does it all mean?

[Schleifstein.net - digital media art blog] Flash Player keeps its sacred status.

Posted at 08:42 AM

AI: Why do cops like donuts?

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] One of the most confusing things to do with Illustrator for new users is working with Compound Paths, which are responsible for taking two solid objects and combining them to make one of the objects a “hole” in the other.

Posted at 08:41 AM

PS: Increasing resolution in Photoshop

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Incase you haven’t noticed, Photoshop CS offers Bicubic Smoother as one of its interpolation algorithms. Bicubic Smoother is virtually always the best way to increase the size/resolution of your image - including the old wives tale of increasing the size a very slight percentage over and over.

Posted at 08:40 AM

FotoFriday Week 12

[Quark VS InDesign] Every friday download a new, royalty-free, high-resolution stock photo in JPG and JPEG200 formats, complete with clipping path and alpha channel...

Posted at 08:39 AM

Workshop Follow-up

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] Have I mentioned NoNags lately? There are all kinds of great freeware applications listed at this site including graphic editors and viewers.

Posted at 08:36 AM

Fontleech: The best free fonts on the web.

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Posted at 08:35 AM

Colors, Graphics, and Design

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] Joshuaink has a great article on web fashion. While you’re there read Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…

Posted at 08:34 AM

May 28, 2005

TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Movie and Music Fonts

[ S-c@-tt3red GeekThoughts- Reviews - Gadgets - Electronics - Websites] Wow, pretty cool site I found with a whole bunch of fonts from different movies. I know, so many times I was doing something and I would wish that I had a font that corresponds to the topic, and I can’t find it. I think this site is a keeper!

Posted at 09:54 AM

Fonts for Programmers

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] Courier New is the standard monospace fixed width font used by programmers. If your looking to try something new, I just found a list of fonts for programmers. Right now I'm trying out Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.

Posted at 09:53 AM

Design and Creativity

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] This is very useful technique when you want a column to resize depending on the visitor’s browser, but you want to maintain a minimum column width. Most browsers support the CSS min-width property, but IE does not. In order to maintain a minimum width on a column in IE JavaScript must be used. We used the min-width IE JavaScript hack for the Site-in-an-Hour exercise, but we discovered that the JavaScript actually locks up IE when the browsers is resized.

Posted at 09:51 AM

Basic Photo Editing and a Few Other Goodies

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] On Friday we will use my basic photo editing in Photoshop as an outline for our workshop. You may want to print the tutorial and download and save the images associated with the tutorial before Friday.

Posted at 09:50 AM

Digital Art, Woman on Dinosaur Painted in Photoshop

[Conann FitzPatrick | Paintings, drawings, digital art and photographs. An artist's Blog with work for sale.] Digital Art, Woman on Dinosaur Painted in Photoshop Submitted by conann on Wed, 2005-05-25 10:25. Woman on Dinosaur: Originally drawn in pencil on paper, the drawing was later scanned and painted in adobe Photoshop. When I set out to start this piece I had only done a couple of things in colour. It was working in Photoshop that eventually gave me the Woman on Dinosaur: Originally drawn in pencil on paper, the drawing was later scanned and painted in adobe Photoshop. When I set out to start this piece I had only done a couple of things in colour. It was working in Photoshop that eventually gave me the confidence to try my hand at painting. There are more ramblings in digital art Art, Painting, Digital Art, IrishBlogs, woman, blog, Photoshop, Experimental, dinosaur, Posted in Digital Art | conann's blog...

Posted at 09:49 AM

Creating Quick and Dirty Web Prototypes

[ ICE - Improving Customer Experience] Here is where you are going to add interactivity to your prototype. Let's say you are designing a web store and you want to test the catalog/merchandising pages, the item pages, the shopping cart and the checkout process. You can design individual images for each stage in the process. Think of it as little screen captures of each stage.

Posted at 09:48 AM

Gawy Gallery Weekender

[Goat People Anonymous] A few more intimate moments with Gawy, once again brought to you by Wellington Girl... Gawy, Warrior Princess Gawy x FGL @ a recent costume...

Posted at 09:47 AM

May 27, 2005

Photoshop Articles

[Where is Ben?] Tim Grey, the author of Color Confidence, Photo Finish, and Photoshop CS2 Workflow has posted a bunch of Photoshop magazine articles on his web site. Just look for links within the title of the articles to find which ones are available on-line.

Posted at 09:08 AM

Around the Web

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read, regardless of whether you plan to freelance or not.

Posted at 09:07 AM

tardis in infinite loop

[antipopper] tardis in infinite loop Last night I had an embarrassing dream that I visited Apple’s headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California. There was a huge Apple museum, which featured all sorts of stuff that I must have absorbed from reading Andy Hertzfeld’s Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. I also noticed that all the signage was in the outdated Apple Garamond typeface, rather than in Apple Myriad. I know, you’re thinking, how much worse can this get? But then I’m in the Apple cafeteria, and find myself sitting next to Julia Sawalha ”” Saffy from Absolutely Fabulous...

Posted at 09:03 AM

American As Apple Pi

[Veer: The Skinny] What would you pick as the quintessential American typeface? Chad Brewer posed that exact question to the cast of characters over at Typophile and managed to squeeze out just a few opinions. Of course, you're welcome to add your own two picas worth to the discussion as well.

Posted at 09:01 AM

fontBROWSER: online font browsing utility

[StraTechnologist] fontBROWSER: online font browsing utility May 26th, 2005 Browse all fonts installed on your computer, using this online font browsing tool. No...

Posted at 09:00 AM

P22 Cézanne Pro: P22 Announces This New and Improved Version of its Popular Cézanne Font

[Brainstorms and Raves] Designers consider Cézanne ideal for various projects. However, one of the drawbacks of its great popularity is that Cézanne may have become too recognizable and possibly not as irregular as one would wish for in a handwriting font. For example, when duplicate letters appear next to each other in a word written in Cézanne, they look identical in all instances. Longtime P22 collaborator James Grieshaber took these concerns to heart and resolved both issues by using the dynamic OpenType format.

Posted at 08:57 AM

May 26, 2005

Picasa 2.0

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] Want to find all images with cats on your hard drive? Picasa's search quickly pulls those images together, using a variety of methods, including hunting for EXIF data contained with the digital image itself. The new edition of Picasa also burns albums to your computer's DVD or CD burner, something missing in earlier versions. For hard copies, Picasa links out to several well-known services, such as Ofoto and Shutterfly, meaning you don't have to open yet another print service account to make hard copies of photos edited in Picasa."

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Posted at 11:46 AM

The Font Browser

[ sinceretheory weblog] Not every web designer carries around a hard drive with all their information on it, especially their typefaces. For its only necessary to have your fonts installed on your local box and use them in some photo editing program to make graphical text or something of the like, for display on the web. Fonts are a confusing element for people to understand and assigning typefaces to websites is a scary element sometimes overlooked.

Posted at 11:43 AM

Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have

[StraTechnologist] Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have May 25th, 2005 Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You...

Posted at 11:41 AM

Fontleech: The best free fonts on the web. ï¿½ Links

[From CitrusMoon: the LinkBlog] Fontleech links page: "The best free fonts on the web"..

Posted at 11:40 AM

Photoshop Technique - Angel Effect Update

[Open Eyes & Mind] A Photoshop tutorial - Adding an Angel Effect Now updated, I did the first one on an uncalibarted monitor. So here's the new one with proper...

Posted at 11:39 AM

ID: Page jumping redux

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Lets say you have an 8 page booklet you’re working on in Adobe InDesign and you want the page numbers to start on document page 3 (because document page 1 is the cover and page 2 is the inside cover). You would right (Control) click on document page 3 in the Pages palette and select Numbering & Section Options and click the Start Numbering Pages At button and type “3”. This now makes document page 3 be page number 1.

Posted at 11:38 AM

Using Colour And Type Effectively

[StraTechnologist] Using Colour And Type Effectively May 26th, 2005 There are lots of different mediums that good colour and typography should be used - magazines, books, posters, signage and (most applicable for us) screens. How we use colours and fonts (and just as importantly, how we use the spaces in between them) is the most telling aspect of web design - these things more than any other are what attract us to a website and also what repulse us too. Typography Ty.pog.ra.phy - The art, craft, or process of composing type and printing from it - The planning, selection, and setting of type for a printed work Good typography leaves a user with hardly any impression at all - unless the user is also a designer who can appreciate what they are seeing. Conversely, bad typography will make a user leave. Web Design Tutorials For New Web Designers And Designers New to Web Standards Tags: design, graphic design, typography Posted in Links |...

Posted at 11:37 AM

May 25, 2005

STC :: fontBROWSER ::

[From CitrusMoon: the LinkBlog] fontBROWSER :: view your font collection.

Posted at 04:11 PM

that which is nice and dandy

[zengun] Fake del.icio.us links until I get off my lazy arse and start using del.icio.us (I’ll blame the lack of good Gnome-ish clients too). Never lose hair over ignored CSS selectors again. Now it would be nice if you could hover selectors in your stylesheet and instantly get informed of their weight (and whether or not they are completely trumped by other selectors)...

Posted at 04:08 PM

Romancermx

[doctorvee] More romance novel covers remixed. (Via.) Tags: books, romancenovels, photoshop

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Posted at 04:07 PM

ID: Moving items to the front or back

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] When using Adobe InDesign, you can send any item to the back of a layer by pressing Command + Shift + [. To bring the item to the front, use the ] key instead. Take the Shift key out and you’ll move the item up and down in the layer order one at a time.

Posted at 04:06 PM

ID: Automatic right-aligned tabs

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] When you’re in Adobe InDesign and you have a text block that you have carefully set right-aligned tabs for using the tab bar, you’re somewhat stuck with the tab setting if you need to resize the frame. The tab setting stays where it is regardless of any width adjustments you make to the text frame.

Posted at 04:05 PM

5 tips for good logos: Tip #3: Geometry Matters

[Jefte.net] Put away that protractor, its not that kind of geometry. This third installment of 5 Tips for good logos isn’t going to teach you how to obtain the cosine of the adjacent angle but A simple knowledge of the four basic logo structures, how basic shapes can convey emotion, and proper logo proportions can go a long way towards a successful logo. Math wiz or not.

Posted at 03:53 PM

Photoshop This Man

[Not for sale. Please come again] As seen @ Goat People Anonymous, there is an opportunity to share your photoshop skills with the world. Gawy is a co-worker with a fetish for shoes. We have long enjoyed adding his mugshot where is really doesnt belong, & wanted you all to have your chance to shine.

Posted at 03:50 PM

ID: Sizing content in a frame

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Once your graphics are placed in a content frame and sized to your liking, you can center the graphic in the frame by pressing Command + Shift + E. These commands may seem obvious, because they’re in the menus and in the manual, but I’ve found that many designers and production artists are so used to Quark’s key commands that they forget toÂ learn new ones.

Posted at 03:49 PM

InDesign placed graphics; fit and center!

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] In Adobe InDesign, you can center a graphic in a graphic frame by hitting Command + Shift + E, and if you want that graphic to fill the graphic frame, the key command is Command + Shift + Option + E which will proportionately fill the frame. Using the two commands together can speed your production time greatly.

Posted at 03:48 PM

Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY

[Internet Brain] Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY From the 2nd edition.

Posted at 03:38 PM

What Would Lenin Do?

[Swim Community Blog] You know this isn’t your Father’s Soviet Union when you can’t even get a free font download from a Russian type foundry anymore. But I have to hand it to them, Letterhead’s got some nice stuff. I found the link through a recent article in Typographica, which had some rather gorgeous hand lettering.

Posted at 03:37 PM

Locking items in your InDesign document

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] To Lock an item in Adobe InDesign means to lock it in place, unlike Quark XPress where locking an item won’t even let you edit the item. To completely lock an object in ID, you must place the item on a layer and lock the layer – only then is the item truly "locked."

Posted at 03:33 PM

Deep Street

[PooterGeek] Via The Motley Fool I found these impressive examples of trompe l’oeil pavement art. Remember: the chalk is only 2D.

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Posted at 03:11 PM

Liquid Metal

[Switchblog] Dashboard - Dropping a widget on the desktop results in a cool liquid ripple effect. (The Mac mini does not show this animation.) So far I've tried tracking flights, checked the pronunciation and definition of some words, and translated some Japanese characters to English! I now have three clocks (New York, London, and Riyadh).

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Posted at 03:08 PM

Graphic Design Blog > May 31, 2005

How-To’s Day: Photoshop: Complex Marquee Selections

PS: When a little is too much

May 31, 2005

How-To’s Day: Photoshop: Complex Marquee Selections

PS: When a little is too much

Adobe to delete some Macromedia software after merge

Some amazing software will cease to exist

Discuss: What’s your favorite Actionscript Object?

ID: Changing fonts & sizes with arrow keys

How-To’s Day - Special All CS2 Edition - 2005-04-05 Tutorials

FlashPaper to become a feature in Acrobat

Gawy Gallery Mini

How to Photograph your user

OT - Saving Intown Neighborhoods From Tasteless (Evil) Developers

Considering the Benefits of FAME

How-To’s Day - 2005-03-31 Tutorials

The Photoshop Guru’s Handbook ”” for the intuitive photoshop user.

May 30, 2005

Adobe Creative Suite 2

Painlessly Updating Adobe

Why e-Books Have Flopped

Is Metro Microsoft's PDF Killer?

Help! Help! I’ve been sIFRized!

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Adobe details Creative Suite update

May 29, 2005

But what does it all mean?

AI: Why do cops like donuts?

PS: Increasing resolution in Photoshop

FotoFriday Week 12

Workshop Follow-up

Fontleech: The best free fonts on the web.

Colors, Graphics, and Design

May 28, 2005

TypeNow.net Themed Fonts Movie and Music Fonts

Fonts for Programmers

Design and Creativity

Basic Photo Editing and a Few Other Goodies

Digital Art, Woman on Dinosaur Painted in Photoshop

Creating Quick and Dirty Web Prototypes

Gawy Gallery Weekender

May 27, 2005

Photoshop Articles

Around the Web

tardis in infinite loop

American As Apple Pi

fontBROWSER: online font browsing utility

P22 Cézanne Pro: P22 Announces This New and Improved Version of its Popular Cézanne Font

May 26, 2005

Picasa 2.0

The Font Browser

Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have

Fontleech: The best free fonts on the web. ï¿½ Links

Photoshop Technique - Angel Effect Update

ID: Page jumping redux

Using Colour And Type Effectively

May 25, 2005

STC :: fontBROWSER ::

that which is nice and dandy

Romancermx

ID: Moving items to the front or back

ID: Automatic right-aligned tabs

5 tips for good logos: Tip #3: Geometry Matters

Photoshop This Man

ID: Sizing content in a frame

InDesign placed graphics; fit and center!

Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY

What Would Lenin Do?

Locking items in your InDesign document

Deep Street

Liquid Metal

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