Graphic Design Blog: June 2005 Archives

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GenoTyp

[Generator.x] Michael Schmitz (an alumnus of Joachim Sauter’s Digital Media class at the Universität der Künste in Berlin) has created GenoTyp, an application demonstrating the genetic breeding of typefaces.

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Fake vs. True Italics

[If..Else Log] Mark Simonson writes on how italicising is more than slanted text. Tags: Shorts, typography, design

Posted at 10:52 PM

June 29, 2005

GenoTyp

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Posted at 10:53 PM

Fake vs. True Italics

[If..Else Log] Mark Simonson writes on how italicising is more than slanted text. Tags: Shorts, typography, design

Posted at 10:52 PM

The Scourge of Arial

[StraTechnologist] Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft’s influence in the world.

Posted at 10:52 PM

More Layout Goodies

[Take My Advice - Im Not Using It!] Time has compiled its 50 coolest web site list for 2005. Take a look at these top 50 sites layout, design and content.

Posted at 10:50 PM

Google Earth

[Franto.com Flash blog] Do you want to see New York, Las Vegas, Big Canyon, London, Himalaya, your city, place where you will go on holiday? Download Google Earth application, and you can fly everywhere on earth.

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Posted at 10:49 PM

Well There Goes My Productivity for the Day

[Intellectual Poison: NSFW Since MMII] I'm not sure why they went with a blond woman in a bikini for the rag doll. It would be lightened up considerably with the addition of a soundtrack and funny sound effects though.

Posted at 10:45 PM

google earth provides satellite imagery

[Tech Observer] Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.

Posted at 10:43 PM

June 28, 2005

Come To TypeCon 2005

[Veer: The Skinny] Ed Benguiat, Paula Scher, Neville Brody, Erik Spiekermann will be presenting, among many other type luminaries. Grant and I will be there representing Veer, who's also sponsoring the conference.

Posted at 09:14 AM

Macworld reviews Adobe CS2

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] Macworld recently reviewed Adobe Photoshop (Adobe talks), Illustrator (Adobe talks), InDesign (Adobe talks), and GoLive (Adobe talks), all part of the CS2 suite. Macworld has also posted an "Adobe talks" series that goes further into the new Creative Suite, this series has a good bit of information.

Posted at 09:12 AM

A googleverse of video: Google video service

[Tech Observer] on comments from CEO Eric Schmidt at Google said "Google did not intend to offer a "person-to-person stored-value payments system" like PayPal's, in which money briefly resides in PayPal's control during the transaction, but he did not give details of how the Google system would differ.

Posted at 09:11 AM

Graphics Updates!

[The Ravens Retreat] Not a whole lot new, except for a whole bunch of sig tags and some stationery. Below is a sample tag I made just the other day…who doesn’t like Angelina Jolie?

Posted at 09:09 AM

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes

[Elliott Back] Eric Meyer thinks Tom Cruise is nuts. Really, he’s just a scientologist superhuman, endowed with macho fiancee-dragging strength: Don’t they look slightly cute together, ignoring the massive age difference?...

Posted at 09:08 AM

June 27, 2005

AI: Creating your own distortion envelopes

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Envelopes are what Adobe Illustrator calls the shapes you use to distort objects. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go to the Effects>Warp menu when you have an object selected.

Posted at 03:29 PM

Desert Island fonts

[If..Else Log] Andy Budd asks the design pack: “If you could buy only 6 fonts, what would they be?”. Part 1, 2 Tags: Shorts, typography, design, discussion

Posted at 03:27 PM

Trouble with your keyboard?

[peripathetic] The excellent film Wonder Boys deals with this question very elegantly by having the protagonist, a novelist, start the film using a typewriter. He tragically (and hilariously) loses his entire paper manuscript.

Posted at 03:26 PM

Iraqi Coalition Deaths in Flash

[This is Martey Dodoo] From Ben Tesch’s del.icio.us feed comes a Flash application called “Iraqi War Fatalities.” It shows deaths of Coalition personnel...

Posted at 03:10 PM

Codename: Acrylic

[Webby's World] These formats include: (open)XPR (Acrylic’s own file format)Adobe Illustrator’s aiWMFEnhanced MetafileTifPSDJPEGBMPPNGGIF (export/save)EPS (Postscript)PDF (Adobe Acrobat)AI (Adobe Illustrator)TIFJPEGPSDBMPPNGGIF The software is more advanced that Serif Drawplus 5, and has support for pixel layers and fantastic support for vector imaging, but I think it’s slightly too complicated (yes, I do say that!) for amateur website designers to use.

Posted at 03:08 PM

June 26, 2005

[IMG Adobe flaw puts PCs at risk]

[world.of.unknown] A security vulnerability in the Adobe License Management Service, a component used for product activation, “can lead to an unauthorized person gaining access to the user’s computer,” Adobe said in a security advisory posted to its Web site late last week.

Posted at 09:27 AM

PS: Where are those preference files?

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] To re-create the preferences files for Photoshop or ImageReady, start the application while holding down Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS X) or Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows). Then, click Yes to the message, “Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?” or “Delete the Adobe ImageReady Settings file?” Technorati Tags: Adobe, Photoshop, preferences, ImageReady Tags: Photoshop...

Posted at 09:24 AM

Tiger's "half-baked" RAW handling

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Paul Thurrot, writing for Connected Home, takes Mac OS X Tiger's touted support for RAW images to task, noting "Apple's support of Raw images is half-baked at best, but it's better than nothing. I advise photographers who use the Macintosh to skip iPhoto and instead use third-party tools such as Adobe PhotoShop or PhotoShop Elements to manage and edit Raw images." What's the beef, sir?

Posted at 09:22 AM

TypeNow

[If..Else Log] Via Alexis: TypeNow is another font repository available on the WWW. As an aside, I think that font sites such as this are lacking when it comes to...

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Posted at 09:19 AM

Free 3D models, tutorials”¦

[Franto.com Flash blog] Free 3D models, tutorials for 3Ds max, Adobe Photoshop at 3DM3, live contests, forums, shops, job list, etc....

Posted at 09:18 AM

June 25, 2005

working sparklines generator in python

[Tech Observer] You can start right away by dynamically creating a sparkline using the Sparkline Generator Web Application, or you can read more about sparklines and decide if you want to use the sparkline web service or if you would be better off downloading the code and running the sparkline service on your own server.

Posted at 08:39 AM

June 24, 2005

flipbook is highly addictive

[ pieceoplastic.com .:. the revolution will be blogged] flipbook is a flash application that lets you create small flipbook animations on the fly. so much fun - yet highly addictive!

Posted at 09:47 AM

June 23, 2005

Expressive Typography using Macromedia Flash

[Digital Inspiration] Expressive Typography points at some excellent websites that illustrate the limitless possibilities of experimental type in Macromedia Flash and bring typography to life. As these examples show, Expressive and Kinetic typography can convey moods, ideas and aesthetics with an interpretive potential that static type cannot thereby infusing a message with life.

Posted at 09:08 PM

Copying stuff and the immediate world of me

[The Mad Perseid] If you're not willing, or able, to pay for something, you don't need it. For the purposes of this discussion, I'm going to disregard all the things one needs to actually live, and concentrate only on everything else.

Posted at 09:05 PM

Type fun

[studio2f] Moreau title sequence machine. I’m glad we didn’t have this as a freehand/illustrator plugin in the early 90s…

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Posted at 09:03 PM

The state of accessibility in the real world

[clagnut - stick around why don't you] That’s not to say I didn’t learn anything: Derek Featherstone’s working practices of an accessibility agency were extremely insightful, Joe Clark’s discussion of the needs of low vision users was an aspect largely overlooked and seeing Robin Christopherson – a blind JAWS user –

Posted at 08:59 PM

Zorn, OpenLazlo, Xamlon, FLA/JS Kit

[Skylab] The artical is a highlevel overview on the next mxml IDE and other xml tag based declarative rich internet application development framworks. (how about that for buzz words.

Posted at 08:56 PM

coso digital

[Bonsai Gigante] Funky Cold Medina Thursday December 23rd 2004, 2:34 Filed under: Flash, MÃºsica WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="150" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"...

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Posted at 08:55 PM

June 22, 2005

Pukka’s Links of the Week

[CoffeeBear.net] This week’s links: Art of Science Competition/Gallery Conversations With My Wife: Star Wars Five subtle editorial changes at PBS Not from Pukka, but...

Posted at 11:21 AM

June 21, 2005

Fonts

[A Blog Too Far] They set the tone of a piece, and if that disagrees with the rest of the design it looks wrong. A picture may paint a thousand words, but one word can say an awful lot depending on which typeface it is displayed in.

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Posted at 10:17 AM

wg:Fun with Drop Shadows

[Internet Brain] wg:Fun with Drop Shadows

Posted at 10:07 AM

PS: To Transform, or to Free Transform?

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] If you’ve worked in Photoshop for a short while, you’ve undboutedly come across the Transform tool under the Edit menu. It allows you to scale, skew, rotate and more a selected object or layer.

Posted at 09:53 AM

Free 3D models, tutorials (Part 2)

[Franto.com Flash blog] Free 3D models, meshes, textures, tutorials for 3Ds max, Adobe Photoshop at 3D Vallye, Enjoy. Tags: Graphics, 3D, 3D, models, tutorials, textures, Photoshop, 3DS Max...

Posted at 09:30 AM

Changing Faces

[16pixels.net :: Photoshop Flash Tutorials] Change the face of one person into another

Posted at 09:25 AM

June 20, 2005

Coffee Art Snowflake Peach

[A Coffee Blog www.coffeesage.com blinkies graphics drink recipe and more] Please read the category description on my coffee art. This first one is called Snowflake Peach. Hope you enjoy it. I love comments so I’ll leave...

Posted at 09:04 AM

Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] (Wish list for the next revision: Enable saving the image's original sampled colors as a swatch library.) Impressively, Live Trace is indeed "live," allowing ample opportunity to experiment with different settings—or even go back and edit the original image inside Photoshop—before accepting the vector conversion. For digital artists who still enjoy the feel of pencil on paper, Live Trace alone is worth the cost of the upgrade.

Posted at 09:02 AM

FotoFriday Week 9 - Free, Royalty Free, Stock Photography

[The Design Weblog - design.weblogsinc.com _] I've been looking for decent royalty-free photography for some time now. So many other offerings are the same old tired stuff.

Posted at 08:29 AM

Flash: Games

[lessrain blog] A good collection of flash games at teagames.com

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Posted at 08:27 AM

June 19, 2005

Can Adobe Redefine Creative Workflow?

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] Adobe Bridge brings some advanced features of Panther and Tiger not yet available on Windows XP, such as the sidebar to store frequently used folders, as well as some smart search options. While the bridge does not compete with Tiger's search technology, Spotlight, users of Creative Suite 2 can define "Collections," folders that are automatically updated following search criteria defined by the user.

Posted at 11:22 AM

QuarkXpress 7 will be more open

[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] This was an ongoing debate between me and the in-house designer, back when I was a trained chimpproduction specialist: he was a Quark man, I preferred Pagemaker. It started out as purely a matter of personal preference and what we were used to, but he started to question his loyalties when Quark started acting outright evil: really poor customer service, and a serial port hardware key that rendered the software unusable when we upgraded to G3s.

Posted at 11:21 AM

Looking for Design Tool Bloggers

[ColumnNetwork.org] Fanatical about Photoshop? Illustrator? Flash? Quark? CSS? We are currently in the process of re-inventing and re-designing our ”˜Design’...

Posted at 11:20 AM

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

[The Design Weblog - design.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 11:17 AM

FotoFriday Week 9 - Free, Royalty Free, Stock Photography

[The Magazine Design Weblog - magazinedesign.weblogsinc.com _] I've been looking for decent royalty-free photography for some time now. So many other offerings are the same old tired stuff.

Posted at 11:16 AM

Font Management: Font Agent Pro

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] His name is Pete Mrsich, and if you recognize the name, you’ve probably seen it listed in the credits of XtraLean’s ImageWell and ShutterBug software as the icon designer. Pete has been a freelance designer and pre-press operator for many years, so he knows the ins-and outs of fonts and their impact on the MacOS in general.

Posted at 11:14 AM

June 18, 2005

Microsoft offers beta of Adobe rival

[Technology News] I’m a big fan of Adobe Photoshop and use it often however I can’t say the same for Illustrator but a new program that can potentially offer pixel based and vector graphics editing is promising but I personally think that its too little too late with Photoshop releasing CS2 recently and having already established their foot in the market. It will be hard for MS Acrylic to fight into the market specially after the Adobe and Macromedia merger which will surely bring in some new and fresh ideas for future projects.

Posted at 04:27 PM

Adobe to acquire Macromedia for about $3.4 billion in stock

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] In a statement released by the two firms, Adobe says it will leverage combined software solutions to target enterprise and mobile segments - a strategy that has been actively pursued by Macromedia for about 18 months with the enterprise communication and presentation platform Breeze as well as Flash Lite, the mobile version of the firm's animation package.

Posted at 04:25 PM

Wave UFO

[ColumnNetwork.org] Wave UFO, by Mariko Mori, fuses real-time computer graphics, brainwave technology, sound, and architectural engineering to create a dynamic interactive experience.

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Posted at 04:24 PM

Acrylic - Photoshop from Microsoft

[Franto.com Flash blog] I’ve played with it, and as a frequent user to PS, Fireworks, Freehand, et al, I can say with some confidence that Acrylic ( as it currently stands) is not a “Photoshop Killer”, or even close. It might step on the toes of vector apps, but unless they bundle it with Longhorn for free I don’t thing Adobe need to be too concerned.

Posted at 04:23 PM

PS: Determining how much scratch disk you need

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] From Adobe’s technical support site: With changes in Photoshop and its memory management, the formula used in the past (that is, 3-5 times the size of your average image) no longer provides an accurate estimate of how much scratch disk Photoshop needs. In Photoshop CS2, you can use the states in your history palette to help you determine how much scratch disk space you need.

Posted at 04:22 PM

Welcome to the World of Mankini

[Goat People Anonymous] Due to Gawy's outstanding popularity when dressed in his Mankini, he allowed us to photograph him in his latest mankini purchase while washing his car this saturday morning...

Posted at 04:21 PM

Macromedia Example Applications

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] Looking for example applications built with Macromedia products? I found this list of Macromedia sample applications in...

Posted at 04:19 PM

June 17, 2005

Get your groove on

[Saait] Didn’t know there were names for these moves This little video takes Napoleon Dynamite’s dance and breaks it down move by move, explaining the name and how to do each. You’ll find such gems as the Greedy Buffet Patron, the Power Clam and the Dutch Surprise. If you like this one, check out this kid, who does a perfect Napoleon Dynamite impersonation in the middle of a spelling bee...

Posted at 07:56 AM

New PhotoShop CS2 - video tutorials

[Franto.com Flash blog] You can find video tutorials of new features in new Adobe PhotoShop CS2. Smart Sharpen (by Scott Kelby). Camera Raw. Smart Objects part 1 (by Dave...

Posted at 07:54 AM

Pulp Fiction in 30 Seconds”¦

[The Webshite] ”¦and re-enacted by bunnies

Posted at 07:52 AM

Nice 3D Flash Video Site

[Airtight News] This site for the Casio G’zOne phone is super nice. Beautiful 3D rendered video mixed with flash animation.

Posted at 07:52 AM

Macromedia Site Search Broken

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] I just noticed that Macromedia's site search is throwing a coldfusion exception. Hmm no global error handler on macromedia.com? On a related note the search in MXNA doesn't seam to return any results either. Not a good day for search at Macromedia...

Posted at 07:51 AM

The Helvetica Meditations

[JeffCroft.com: Homepage] As if you needed proof that no time is a bad time for Helvetica. Not to be nit-picky, but I’m pretty sure #6 is actually Univers.

Posted at 07:50 AM

Typedrawing

[Veer: The Skinny] Need another excuse to doodle away the few remaining bits of spare time you have during the day? Of course you do. Take a stab at typedrawing and make...

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Posted at 07:49 AM

June 16, 2005

Blog Button Makers

[Bloggers Blog * Blogging News and Trends *] Do you eed to make a cool link button for your blog? Shai Coggins, editor of weblogs.about.com has started a page on about.com that lists blog button makers. So far the page includes Brilliant Button Maker, Adam Kalsey's button maker and Online Button Maker.

Posted at 08:36 AM

This just in: Escape from Neverland!\nFile Under: M...

[Washington Interns Gone Bad: The Blog] What, you haven't heard of it? It's not as sexy as a stained blue dress, but it's only a million times more important, yet you'll hear barely a peep about it from the "liberal media!" I'm giving the mainstream media 2 days to get this Michael Jackson stuff out of their systems and start reporting on the Downing Street Memo before I... (hhhmmm, what am I going to do about that?) .

Posted at 08:34 AM

Burnt Face Man

[The Community At Large] Burnt Face Man danger @ 4:40 pm More incredible stuff from David Firth. Very funny. Offensive in parts. Brilliant. Burnt Face...

Posted at 08:33 AM

& tu?

[Dynagirl 5.0] The initial configuration of the exclamation point, which is descended from a logotype for the Latin word io (”joy”), was a capital I set over a lowercase ‘o’. As with the question mark, the design of the exclamation point was gradually streamlined to its present form.

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Posted at 08:31 AM

I love Helvetica

[doctorvee] Helvetica is everywhere”¦ Helvetica is lovely. Check it out ”” Warp Records even features (quite right too; they can’t seem to get enough of Helvetica themselves). (Via.) Tags: fonts, helvetica, warprecords

Posted at 08:29 AM

Default font sets

[All Narfed Up] Speaking of being nice to web developers, I came across these two pages: Windows XP default font set Mac OS X default font set They show how the fonts...

Posted at 08:29 AM

Masterworks Stamps

[ Personism] The Masterworks of Modern American Architecture stamp series, which I posted about on Unbeige a while back, is here! I am in the midst of mailing hell at the gallery, so when Emily the intern went to the PO I asked her to pick up a few sheets of the new stamps. The images of the buildings themselves are nice - nothing straight on, just b+w detail shots taken from MTV angles.

Posted at 08:26 AM

June 15, 2005

FotoFriday Week 9 - Free, Royalty Free, Stock Photography

[The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog - photoshop.weblogsinc.com _] I've been looking for decent royalty-free photography for some time now. So many other offerings are the same old tired stuff.

Posted at 05:46 AM

Could RSS Deliver Spyware?

[Bloggers Blog * Blogging News and Trends *] Another nasty possibility, said Stiennon, is that a vulnerability will be found in one of the big blogging services. "If a spyware writer finds a way to inject code into a blogging site -- which could take the form of a SOAP object -- most likely through a future vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7, then everyone who subscribes to that service's blog RSS feeds is gonna get infected." Such an attack could be massive, and because of the automated nature of RSS, extremely fast-acting.

Posted at 05:45 AM

My Damn Blog

[g o b l i n b o x . c o m] My Damn Blog has a new stylesheet featuring three columns! Aren't I clever?

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Posted at 05:43 AM

Microsoft Photoshop

[ sinceretheory weblog] Frankly I’m not surprised this has happened earlier. When Adobe acquired Macromedia nearly two months ago, later it was mentioned that one of the reasons for doing such a thing was to keep them ineligible to be acquired by Microsoft. Apparently that has not stopped Redmond as they have officially announced they are entering the graphic design realm.

Posted at 05:42 AM

Alphabet Soup

[ Personism] Just such a product, far simpler to install than the signage Calvin makes for me, has been widely discussed this week, first on MoCo Loco and then on Apartment Therapy. It’s not just the vinyl, it’s also the fact that my head is constantly swimming with words to begin with. I lie in bed at night dreaming up language for press releases and (I hope) interesting blog posts.

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Posted at 05:41 AM

TypeDrawing

[Drawn! The Illustration Blog] TypeDrawing is an online application/gallery allowing you to create and view illustrations made with type. Choose the letters and words you want, and start drawing! There are currently over 12,000 submissions, some of them quite good. As a typography freak, I love love love it. (thanks for the link, Joan!)

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Posted at 05:40 AM

ID: New drop shadow feature in CS2

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] What adding Noise does to your drop shadow is it breaks up the drop shadow color into random dots, rather than a smooth gradient of color. Between using Multiply and adding Noise, your drop shadows should look much more natural, and blend much better with background colors. In the screenshot above, I have purposely exaggerated the Noise amount to illustrate the results.

Posted at 05:39 AM

June 14, 2005

Dalek V2 WIP2

[A Blog Too Far] I’ve done a bit more work on my new Dalek today. I got some reference pictures from a Dalek builders guide and it should be a lot more accurate. Still to do are the shoulder slats and mesh and the waist.

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Posted at 08:25 AM

YourTotalSite.com / Which Image Format is Best

[Internet Brain] YourTotalSite.com / Which Image Format is Best If you’ve ever wondered about the differences in image formats...

Posted at 08:24 AM

Microsoft Acrylic beta

[This Is My Nostalgia] Microsoft Acrylic beta Microsoft Acrylic - "Acrylic" is the codename for an innovative illustration, painting and graphics tool that provides exciting...

Posted at 08:23 AM

X-Rite’s Pulse ColorElite System Wins Five Star Award from Photoshop User Magazine

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] The product review will be featured on page 84 of the upcoming July/August issue of the publication, which hits stands today. This is one of several favorable reviews Pulse has received since it began shipping in late 2004. Steve Baczewski, Professional Photographer and Editor for Photoshop User Magazine described the Pulse system as “a well-thought-out, highly accurate, software/hardware combination.

Posted at 08:22 AM

PS: Dealing with Photoshop CS2 layer palette changes

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] That’s because “selecting” and “linking” are somewhat the same now. If you select two layers as seen in the picture at the right, they are essentially linked the way they were in CS1 - you can move both layers at the same time. You will see that when you select two layers, the link button located at the bottom left of the palette is dark, as opposed to greyed out when you only have one layer selected.

Posted at 08:21 AM

June Photo Contest - Cash prize!

[Philosophy and a Photographic Eye] I really like the pics that you have taken. I like photography, and it makes me want to go out and buy a good camera. You really have a good eye for the photos.

Posted at 08:20 AM

Microsoft Acrylic

[PigPog Blog] A few places have mentioned Microsoft’s new beta - Acrylic. Home Computer Magazine have taken the time to have a good play with it, though.

Posted at 08:19 AM

June 13, 2005

New ProfileMaker 5 Publish Plus from GretagMacbeth

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] “ProfileMaker 5 software solutions are acknowledged as ”˜the color management solutions of choice’ by color experts in publishing and high-end imaging environments worldwide,” said Iris Mangelschots, VP and GM of Digital Imaging at GretagMacbeth. “The new PM5 Publish Plus solution is perfect for CMYK-based multi-color printing, including high-end large format printing, textile digital printing and digital printing for print, textile and packaging. Unparalleled new workflow tools and capabilities show GretagMacbeth’s continuous commitment to delivering solutions that provide high quality results while reducing production costs by simplifying and streamlining the entire workflow.”

Posted at 08:44 AM

Whack your boss

[The Community At Large] Most of these things, it’s a hilariously badly animated tongue in cheek bit of fun. But this is so well done and so incredibly violent it seems a bit dangerous.

Posted at 08:43 AM

PDF: Convert your images to gray, post-PDF process

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] the PDF was already created in RGB or CMYK mode? All you have to do is change the Colorspace area in the Conversion section to Grayscale when you’re using the Export All Images command.

Posted at 08:42 AM

Flash lite 2

[Tim Madden - Web Designer - Brisbane Australia] Flash lite is the name given to the version of flash that mobile phones use. The current version is really just flash player version 4 AS1, but it appears the next version is going to be version 7 with AS2. Read more here.

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Posted at 08:41 AM

Exterminate!

[A Blog Too Far] I took a few pictures of my corridor today and thought I’d have a go at putting a dalek or two into them. I managed to get the light about right, the model hasn’t changed much though apart from the colour.

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Posted at 08:40 AM

Dalek V-2 Work In Progress

[A Blog Too Far] I’m working on a new Dalek model with the help of pictures around the web and in particular notes for building Daleks. Incidentally if anybody wants to contribute to my Dalek building fund, you can send me money through paypal using tbarnard [at] burntmail [dot] com. I’ve completed the new head section, which is improved from the first version, most notably the eye stalk is much more detailed, and there are lights on it.

Posted at 08:39 AM

Getting the Colors Right When Soft Proofing

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] Graphics professionals everywhere want to reap the benefits of soft proofing. Instead of paying for shipping and waiting for a hard-copy proof, publishers can eyeball print designs and documents on a monitor.

Posted at 08:38 AM

June 12, 2005

Genomic Cartography, interim book, Ben Fry

[COMPUTERGRAPHICA] Genomic Cartography, interim book, Ben Fry Tags: graphics, science, mapping, cartography, information design Filed under: links ”” COMPUTERGRAPHICA @...

Posted at 10:59 AM

Doctorin’ the Tardis

[A Blog Too Far] I did manage to start work on this picture below. The lighting isn’t quite right and the subject isn’t finished, but it’s a good start I reckon. Click to get a bigger version.

Posted at 10:58 AM

Is Bush a Sith Lord?

[Holy Shmoly!] […] user interface trend: goodbye stripes Is Bush a Sith Lord? by Paul Craig Roberts (thanks Donncha) Daring Fireball: Intel-mania [ECHENG.COM] Web Journal :: Dam […]

Posted at 10:57 AM

Three Companies’ Products Share the CMS Market

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] X-Rite now sells, among other products, an affordable ($1000) scan-ruler based printer profiling system named Pulse, which competes head-on with Gretag’s Eye-One Pro, as well as a speed-demon chart-eating automatic system nicknamed “Slingshot,” officially catalogued as “DTP70.”

Posted at 10:56 AM

Understanding ProPhoto RGB - UPDATE

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] On May 27th, PSN reported that Michael Reichmann, publisher of the Luminous Landscape website, had written an article titled Understanding ProPhoto RGB A Preferred Working Space for Digital Photographers. The article was useful (read the original article on) but spawned a lengthy discussion of the relative merits and risks of using ProPhoto RGB in the Luminous Landscape Forums. The discussion centered around the advisability of using ProPhoto RGB because it’s color gamut, the amount of colors contained, is so big.

Posted at 10:55 AM

Photoshop User Magazine

[VoxEfx] Photoshop User Magazine Another FavoriteTags: Photoshop Magazine Tips Tutorials

Posted at 10:54 AM

Scott Teplin

[Drawn! The Illustration Blog] I can’t think of much to say about Scott Teplin’s work, because it’s the kind of art that really needs to be seen and not read about. He draws chairs, mouths, donuts, and little rooms. He has a penchant for typography, and has filled up countless beautiful little books that are works of art all on their own.

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Posted at 10:54 AM

June 11, 2005

Adobe Creative Suite 2.0 Premium

[Learning Community Group's Research Network :: Main Page] The main advantage of this suite, however, is its ability to share images produced in one app with another app. Version Cue 2.0, a file management app, maintains version control, while Adobe Bridge, a new app, allows designers to synchronize color settings throughout the suite and preview images from within any Creative Suite program, regardless of which app you used to create them.

Posted at 12:19 PM

Understanding ProPhoto RGB

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] One of the most knowledgeable voices in the area of colour management over the last few years has been Bruce Fraser, the co-author of the current definitive work on colour management for photographers - Real World Color Management. In articles that he’s written elsewhere Bruce suggests that digital photographers should consider working in the much large ProPhoto RGB colour space. (ProPhoto RGB was developed by Kodak).

Posted at 12:15 PM

GretagMacbeth announces Improved Eye-One

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] Press Release: Regensdorf, Switzerland, - May 19, 2005 - GretagMacbeth, the worldwide technological leader in color measurement and management solutions announced that it is shipping the accelerated version of its award winning Eye-One color management solutions that set a new benchmark for speed, error free handling and usability.

Posted at 12:14 PM

Open Source at Adobe

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] The Adobe chap had interesting things to say about their heavily constrained use of open source: they basically have a sandbox where open source is allowed but at some point between the sandbox and the Adobe core products, open source becomes verboten. Not even open source compilers, even when they don't link to open source libraries.

Posted at 12:12 PM

Snippets Here, Snippets There, Snippets Everywhere - Part II

[Take My Advice - Im Not Using It!] To add a snippet to your document position your cursor where you would like the snippet to be inserted. In the Snippets panel, double click the snippet you would like to insert or click the snippet once and click the Insert Snippet button on the Snippet Panel or drag the snippet from the panel into your XHTML Code.

Posted at 12:11 PM

Photoshop's rival: Acrylic

[TechTracker] Microsoft is opening up a beta program for Acrylic, a software that is supposed to enhance Paint and to challenge Photoshop.

Posted at 12:10 PM

PS: Picking up stray pixels

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] When you’re editing your images in Photoshop, and you’re trying to make a selection using the Magic Wand Tool, you may find that the tool leaves behind a few stray pixels. The easiest way to pick them up is with you selection made, choose Select>Modify>Smooth from the menu bar. Technorati Tags: Adobe, Photoshop Tags: Photoshop...

Posted at 12:09 PM

June 10, 2005

Old Print Effect

[16pixels.net :: Photoshop Flash Tutorials] A method to transform a photo into an old print. Useful for architectural illustrations or other purposes

Posted at 07:01 AM

Shouldn't Ebook Pricing Model Be Different From Print Books?

[NabaTech] Shouldn't the publishers be able to price the ebooks much lower than the print versions, considering that there are no printing costs, shipping costs, and no need to accept returns from booksellers? Or, put it another way, wouldn't it make sense to price the ebooks as low as possible just to encourage buyers to go for the ebooks? Before we think of better formats and designs for ebooks, publishers should rethink the pricing model for the current computer ebooks””to ensure that there are some real incentives for buying the ebooks.

Posted at 07:00 AM

PS: About Photoshop CS2

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] If you’re looking to upgrade to Photoshop CS 2 (Photoshop 9) and you’re looking for more information, you may want to check out the Photoshop page at the AdobeEvangelists Web site.

Posted at 06:59 AM

Better Photo Summit

[Where is Ben?] I'll be speaking at the Better Photo student summit in Seattle that's coming up in September. There will be close to a dozen instructors with a sharp focus on photography and digital imaging. I'll be presenting a Keynote session titled The New Essentials of Photoshop, which will cover how photographers can take advantage of the new features in Photoshop CS2.

Posted at 06:53 AM

Outback Photo Tip #2

[Where is Ben?] The second installment of my Photoshop tips has been posted at OutbackPhoto.com. Each month, I'll supply Uwe with a tipthat I think would be useful to photographers (they will also be usefulto non-photographers by the way) and Uwe will take the concept and addillustrations and his own personal take on the technique.

Posted at 06:52 AM

All about fonts for captioning and subtitling

[StraTechnologist] * are specifically designed to be read from screens within the constraints of captions and subtitles (like scrolling, crawling, appearing and disappearing, all while typeset against unpredictable backgrounds)

Posted at 06:51 AM

June 09, 2005

Adobe Photoshop plug-ins for Photographers

[Digital Inspiration] But to do more than that usually means turning to Adobe Photoshop CS2, a program that dominates photo-editing software so much its name has become a verb for digitally altering images. And, much like Apple's successful iPod music player, Photoshop has spawned a small secondary industry of companies that make accessories for it. In Photoshop's case, of course, accessories take the form of software, known as plug-ins, that add features.

Posted at 12:56 PM

Photoblogging: Evening at a Florida Park

[QT Monster's Place] vadkins QT Monster Blog Home...

Posted at 12:55 PM

Pegaweb Web Design & Photoshop Tutorials

[Alexis] This site “Pegaweb Web Design & Photoshop Tutorials” was launched as a hobby site on 13th March 2002. The site is run by me (Daniel Piechnick), a professional web designer from Adelaide, South Australia. All the material on this site is original, and is based on my experience as a web designer.[…]

Posted at 12:53 PM

PS: Combining layers losslessly

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Create a new blank layer on top of all your other layers and hit Command + Shift + Option + E. This merges all the visible layers onto that new layer you created AND keeps all the old layers intact for further adjustment.

Posted at 12:50 PM

PS: Solution to ongoing Photoshop launch bug

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] If you’ve experienced a problem with Photoshop where you double-click a file in the Finder and Photoshop launches, but the document doesn’t open, then this may help.

Posted at 12:49 PM

Tim O'Reilly on Zorn

[Pete Freitag's Homepage] Macromedia's announcement that their next generation enterprise Flash development tool, code-named Zorn, will be built on top of Eclipse, is a watershed moment both for Macromedia and for the open source movement. Macromedia's choice of Eclipse speaks volumes about the impact of open source on commercial software development -- and about Macromedia's commitment to making Flash into an essential platform for next-generation internet applications.

Posted at 12:47 PM

June 08, 2005

Aufreger des Tages = Der Jamba-Banner auf heise.de

[Rothausthemenabend.de] Was soll ich noch tun, um der schlimmen Klingeltonunterschichtenwerbungsmaschinerie zu entkommen ? Mein Fernseher steht schon im Keller, Radio höre ich keins mehr, die Kundenzeitungen beim Fastfood bleiben liegen und jetzt marschiert der faschistische Frosch auch noch bei Heise ein - Sinngemäß nach einem Leitartikel der Faz vom 7.6.05 = “Was habe ich gekotzt”…

Posted at 10:13 AM

Photoshopping: Sepia Toned

[QT Monster's Place] Took a photo of a flower this evening, then did a little Photoshop magic: vadkins QT Monster Blog Home...

Posted at 10:12 AM

Which Picture Looks Better?

[QT Monster's Place] Here are two versions of the same photo, except one has been converted into the sRGB color profile in Photoshop. Which picture looks better on your computer monitor? Please leave a comment and let me know.

Posted at 10:10 AM

v_k x Uncle Ben's

[Goat People Anonymous] Although I am posting these against my better judgement, our good friend Wellington Gurl has crafted these fine "v_k x Uncle Ben's" collaboration pix... I go great with "wheat cakes", go me!!! (WTF are wheat cakes?)

Posted at 10:09 AM

Apple & Intel

[The Dinkdoink Chronicles] When I first heard the rumors flying around, I dreaded them. What if Apple was really switching to x86 processors? “No, that’s impossible,” I...

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Posted at 10:07 AM

Getting to Know Macromedia HomeSite

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] Yes, it’s true Macromedia has it’s own HTML/XHTML editor called HomeSite. We have not been using it in class because we had issues with getting it to run on our network. It’s working now and it’s an excellent editor, so I would like to encourage all of you to take a look at HomeSite.

Posted at 10:05 AM

Macromedia Flash Platform like a printing press

[Digital Inspiration] The Sherwin-Williams Co. used the Platform to construct its Color Visualizer, an interactive tool that allows customers to try out different paint color combinations on virtual interior and exterior environments. Whitmann-Hart Information Architect Andy Dennee, who worked with Sherwin-Williams to create the color tool, said the new Platform has enabled his team to create a site with rich color, photorealistic images and real-time lighting, something he said wasn't possible before, using just the HTML paradigm.

Posted at 10:04 AM

June 07, 2005

Old Picture Effect

[16pixels.net :: Photoshop Flash Tutorials] Old Picture Effect

Posted at 11:10 AM

RSS -> PDF

[distant, early morning] I was browsing around and found out that Adobe Pro 7 can create PDFs from RSS feeds. I happen to have that, so I went and tried it out, and voila - I now have a PDF book of my writing. I need to prettify it, but I just made a feed that had a very high limit and access to those articles, and then subscribed to it in Acrobat.

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Posted at 11:08 AM

CTAN font installation guide

[Schussman.com] ·CTAN font installation guide: Guide to using Type 1 Postscript fonts in LaTeX (via Kieran)

Posted at 11:07 AM

Geek Notes: LaTeX Fonts

[Schussman.com] ·Geek Notes: LaTeX Fonts: How to install Adobe Garamond for LaTeX

Posted at 11:06 AM

Noticeable Change for Road Signs: New Type

[Why?] Highway Gothic (above) and Clearview (below), with "halation" and "overglow" (vocabulary words of the day and image from the Federal Highway...

Posted at 11:05 AM

How About a Good Deal

[Take My Advice - I’m Not Using It!] Cairo helps you to find the best deal in town. Enter your zip code and the item that you’re looking to buy and Cairo will search for sales in your area for that item. It will even display a thumbnail of the newspaper ad that the item was found in. If it can’t locate the exact item, it will display similar items.

Posted at 10:57 AM

ID: Corner effects

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Did you know the Corner Effects feature in Adobe InDesign works on ANY corner, not just rectangular shapes? You can get a rounded corner effect on a path shaped like an L - without having to hand draw it with the Bezier Curve tool to edit it for the effect.

Posted at 10:56 AM

June 06, 2005

Jersey Transfer

Posted at 10:24 AM

Web: Creating Favicons for Web sites

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website’s URL in the address bar of a web browser. And when I say little, I mean 16 pixels by 16 pixels. So if you like a good design challenge try your hand at this one.

Posted at 10:23 AM

Domo-kun gone bad

[noodleroni.com, v5.0 | some boughs can never be broken] Domo-kun gone bad Submitted by Noodleroni on Sat, 2005/06/04 - 12:33pm. Here's our fuzzy buddy Domo-kun attacking a kitty cat: ...

Posted at 10:22 AM

Daily Type, original typefaces every day

[StraTechnologist] Daily Type, original typefaces every day May 31st, 2005 Daily Type is a creative project run by five russian type designers. Day by day, they create...

Posted at 10:16 AM

Earthly Face

[16pixels.net :: Photoshop Flash Tutorials] Sunday 5 June 2005 Filed under: Photoshop

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Posted at 10:14 AM

June 05, 2005

FotoFriday Week 13

[Quark VS InDesign] FotoFriday Week 13

Posted at 11:11 AM