Graphic Design Blog: February 2008 Archives

Graphic Design Blog > February 29, 2008

06/02/08 - Desktop Publishing with Illustrator and InDesign

[Bodwell Internet] Learn logo design, web site layout and poster creation using Illustrator, the world’s leading vector graphics program.

InDesign Conference, Miami Beach: Recosoft

[Adobe Blogs] PDF2ID is an invaluable tool to have at your disposal when you've got to redesign or repurpose PDF content for which you don't have the original source files. Or suppose you've got some old FreeHand files that you'd like to migrate to InDesign...you can convert them to PDF and then use PDF2ID to extract and format the content as closely as possible to the original source in a new, fully editable InDesign file.

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February 29, 2008

06/02/08 - Desktop Publishing with Illustrator and InDesign

[Bodwell Internet] Learn logo design, web site layout and poster creation using Illustrator, the world’s leading vector graphics program.

Posted at 12:03 PM

InDesign Conference, Miami Beach: Recosoft

Posted at 12:01 PM

February 28, 2008

Aviary’s Phoenix, a web-based image editing application

[VintFalken.com] Paint-like on-line, web-based image editing applications. But never have I seen something like Phoenix before: it has layers, overlay modes, layer functions (drop shadow, blur, bevel, ”¦), efficient gradients, different brushes, ...

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Picnik offers premium image editing features for free

[Download Squad] But Picnik isn't getting rid of paid memberships altogether. You an still shell out $25 per year to get early access to new features, the ability to edit in a full screen mode, and an ad-free interface.

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February 27, 2008

Extending Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR with C and C++ via ...

[Ted On Flex] Part of this implementation includes a pattern in ActionScript that allows for "green threading" that supports executing synchronous code in the asynchronous ActionScript virtual machine. The work done here is quite groundbreaking and has highlighted quite a few performance improvements in the current virtual machine while expanding the capability of the platform.

Posted at 12:08 PM

Some Adobe AIR Apps Worth a Look

[readwriteweb] Excuse my n00bness, but what do I need to run these - what I mean is there a runtime/framework I have to download - ie Air where exactly do you get it (obviously adobe)?

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February 26, 2008

SUPER settings for converting to avi to import into Imageready in ...

[w3exchange] Topic: SUPER settings for converting to avi to import into Imageready Message: AVI is a container, it supports the largest variety of video and audio codecs.find out which video/audio codec are supported by your Imageready and use them.

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The void of ImageReady

[All Things Design & Development | Graphic Diction] I opened up an animated .gif to edit in Photoshop CS3 today, professional, extended version of course, and it told me that I was opening an animated .

Posted at 12:02 PM

February 23, 2008

Flash and InDesign Technology Preview Coming Next Week

[indesignsecrets] InDesignSecrets.com is independently published and not endorsed or authorized by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.

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Getting Accurate Colors When Printing Proofs from InDesign

[indesignsecrets] So check the Edit > Color Settings dialog box to make sure both Photoshop and InDesign are talking about the same colors. If you’re working with CMYK colors (which I assume you are here), you almost certainly want the Photoshop’s CMYK color profile to be the same as the InDesign document’s CMYK color profile.

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February 22, 2008

Acrobat 3D Version 8 - CAD Importers Updated

[Adobe Blogs] A free CAD translator update for Acrobat 3D Version 8 is now available for download for registered and trial users of Acrobat 3D Version 8.

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Adobe Acrobat Alternatives - 4 - PDFill

[Revver - tutorial, Videos] This video shows how to replace Adobe Acrobat Professional with PDFill.The entire article is available on www.VitaminCM.comStop by and take a look.

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February 21, 2008

More inspiring Typography”¦

[The Personal Blog of a Freelance Designer] So many people liked what i posted on typography that i thought we’d do some more”¦ Some new posts I found by artists over on DA. Thought they deserved a little credit for some great uses of type in their works.

Posted at 12:02 PM

5 Easy Tips for Web Typography

[Conversation Marketing: Internet Marketing with a Twist of Lemon] Web typography is an art that I've never totally grasped - I have to be honest. But I have learned some basic rules worth remembering:

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February 19, 2008

Quark Gluon Plasma

[Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums] My second comment is thus that the QGP might be different from what we expected. One could therefore conclude that our losses of understanding, at high and low energy, might be dual to each other

Posted at 12:07 PM

Macs, Macs, and more Macs

[Cycle Quark] I attended a meeting of physicists the other day, and I was surprised to see the distribution of laptop brands. It was 14 Macs, mostly MacBook Pros, 4 Dells, and 2 Thinkpads.

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February 15, 2008

Design a Lego Typography in Photoshop

[Photoshop Mosaic News] Learn how to make Lego blocks and use it for typography designs.

Posted at 12:01 PM

The Map Office

[TypeNeuâ™ / TNâ™ / Typography News for Type Perfectionistas. +] I just love the Tatsuya Matsui typography on the UCLA poster. The animated logo for UCLA Architectue & Urban design is also great.

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February 14, 2008

Fantasy League Typography

[Monoscope] Sheet Music at Duke.

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Lesson in typography 1 of 2

[Good-Tutorials.com: Latest Tutorials] Short tutorial about typography and the art of laying out type. Go through some of the basics and some more advanced techniques.

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February 13, 2008

A lesson in typography.

[X24 Designs] It is very subjective, but there are some rules that need to be followed. This may be confusing but I’ll try to make understanding the core concept easy.

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Graphic Thought Facility - updates

[Graphic Design and typography - Swiss Legacy] Gagosian, Pop Art is: (with Peter Saville), 2007. The London based studio Graphic Thought Facility update their website with some major works.

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February 12, 2008

Ornamental Typography

[bibliodyssey] It was quite the calligraphy/typography scandal of the 16th century. The above images are from one of the classic books on letterforms: .

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International Typographic Style

[TypeNeuâ™ / TNâ™ / Typography News for Type Perfectionistas. +] I added a new Flickr group to the TypeFlickr called the International Typographic Style. “The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that .

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February 09, 2008

new fonts

[Digital Scrapbook Place] But I wondered if I can keep them in a separate folder inside the font folder in windows xp or do I have to copy them directly to the fonts's folder? I would like to keep them separate so that I don't have to spend half an hour sifting through all those other hundreds of fonts that I don't like anyway.

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Loading Runtime Fonts with AS3

[Ultrashock Forums - Blogs] With AS3 we can now load any fonts, at any time, into any SWF file. The benefits of this should be obvious, and with a little planning it would be possible to change the fonts used by a Flash website simply by uploading a new font library to the server, you wouldn't have to touch the main SWF files for the site.

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February 08, 2008

Browser Based Image Editing tool !!

[Sun Forums : Thread List - Java Servlet] I m looking for web based image editing tool which is made in java servlet/jsp .so that i can able to customize and integrate the tool in my web application.

Posted at 12:07 PM

Photo Editing, Painting, Drawing, Text Manipulation, Web Animation ...

[Bill Mullins' Weblog] You’ll find a large number of tools for creating web-savvy images, including an Export Optimizer for gauging the appearance of an image at various output settings. As well, a group of web animation tools will help you import and export GIF files.

Posted at 12:06 PM

February 07, 2008

Crunchdeals: Photoshop CS 3 for ~$300, no shadiness necessary

[CrunchGear] If you feel like getting a legal copy of Photoshop CS3, it’ll run you North of $650 normally. But those miserly geniuses over at Photography Bay have figured that you can get it for half that if you’re careful.

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Photoshop vs. Photomatix Pro

[photowalkpro] Both of these images would require further processing and sharpening in Photoshop but it gives you a good idea of where each software application goes with the HDR file. There are many more effects and techniques including combining the HDR images with normal processed exposures for more realistic images. Just like any image in Photoshop, you can work it till the day you die and never be done. Unless you decide you are done because in the end, it’s your decision where to take your images and yours to decide what “look” you really want.

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February 06, 2008

Course Announcement: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: introduction

[HP Learning Center Updates] Course Description: Learn how to create beautiful and functional web pages using Dreamweaver's host of tools, as well as how to publish and manage a website.

Posted at 12:03 PM

Adobe names Macromedia exec to be CTO

[indianpad - All Stories] “Adobe has transformed itself through several technology waves, from desktop publishing, to multimedia and to the Web,” said Adobe’s new chief executive, Shantanu Narayen, in a statement. “Kevin’s insights and passion for rich Internet applications, and what they signify for the future of software across operating systems and devices, will help enable the next generation of innovation for our customers.”

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February 05, 2008

Tuesday News Nuggets

[Photoshop Insider] Don’t forget to set your Tivo / DVR to record Photoshop User TV’s debut on Fox Business channel (check your local listing for the exact channel. In the Tampa Bay Area, where we’re based, on Brighthouse Networks it’s cable channel 149).

Posted at 12:02 PM

Cool Cloud Break Effect Using Photoshop

[Photoshop Training Video Site] This tutorial provides the user of Photoshop a lesson on creating cloud break effect. This is one of the many such tutorials which introduce the varied special effects that can be performed in Photoshop.

Posted at 12:01 PM

February 02, 2008

Flash Games

[Nokia Mobile Reviews and Games] Two upcoming Flash Lite related seminars - do register to them now: Via Bill: Flash Lite and Flex for mTourism January 23rd (9 am PST) Speakers: Untravel Media’s CTO Ira Hochman and CEO Michael Epstein Topic: developing mobile travel applications (using geo-coding), a web-based Flex application and a Flash Lite mobile application Via Boston Flash Mobile and Devices User Group: Developing Flash Lite Widgets for the Chumby Platform January 25th (9 am PST) Speaker: Scott Janousek, Technical Director of Hooken Mobile Topic: developing Flash Lite widgets for the Chumby platform

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Posted at 12:03 PM

Flash Earth Viewer

[Google Earth Library] Choose Small/Medium/Large to determine the size of the Flash Earth baloon window. Then simply click on the white arrow that you will see on Google Earth.

Posted at 12:02 PM

February 01, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 Bundle Review -

[Mixx: Internet] Adobe Premiere Elements 4 is a very powerful, very thorough photo and video editing package. The programs are also quite user-friendly, allowing the user to get started immediately and bypassing the steep learning curve common

Posted at 12:04 PM

Graphic Design Blog > February 29, 2008

06/02/08 - Desktop Publishing with Illustrator and InDesign

InDesign Conference, Miami Beach: Recosoft

February 29, 2008

06/02/08 - Desktop Publishing with Illustrator and InDesign

InDesign Conference, Miami Beach: Recosoft

February 28, 2008

Aviary’s Phoenix, a web-based image editing application

Picnik offers premium image editing features for free

February 27, 2008

Extending Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR with C and C++ via ...

Some Adobe AIR Apps Worth a Look

February 26, 2008

SUPER settings for converting to avi to import into Imageready in ...

The void of ImageReady

February 23, 2008

Flash and InDesign Technology Preview Coming Next Week

Getting Accurate Colors When Printing Proofs from InDesign

February 22, 2008

Acrobat 3D Version 8 - CAD Importers Updated

Adobe Acrobat Alternatives - 4 - PDFill

February 21, 2008

More inspiring Typography”¦

5 Easy Tips for Web Typography

February 19, 2008

Quark Gluon Plasma

Macs, Macs, and more Macs

February 15, 2008

Design a Lego Typography in Photoshop

The Map Office

February 14, 2008

Fantasy League Typography

Lesson in typography 1 of 2

February 13, 2008

A lesson in typography.

Graphic Thought Facility - updates

February 12, 2008

Ornamental Typography

International Typographic Style

February 09, 2008

new fonts

Loading Runtime Fonts with AS3

February 08, 2008

Browser Based Image Editing tool !!

Photo Editing, Painting, Drawing, Text Manipulation, Web Animation ...

February 07, 2008

Crunchdeals: Photoshop CS 3 for ~$300, no shadiness necessary

Photoshop vs. Photomatix Pro

February 06, 2008

Course Announcement: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: introduction

Adobe names Macromedia exec to be CTO

February 05, 2008

Tuesday News Nuggets

Cool Cloud Break Effect Using Photoshop

February 02, 2008

Flash Games

Flash Earth Viewer

February 01, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 & Adobe Premiere Elements 4 Bundle Review -

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