Although its name clearly implies a close relationship with photography, Adobe Photoshop is widely used as an illustration and design tool. Photoshop has also excelled as a color separation tool for prepress and photochromy jobs. Cartoonists and Illustrators find the possibility of using pressure sensitive tablets with Photoshop a huge asset. Architects use Photoshop to embellish their perspective drawings. Industrial designers and 3d artists can correct and enhance their 3d rendering. Pixel perfect images are created by icon and web designers. This section is a guide to different art and design resources, such as books, software, fonts, clipart and tutorials to help you to build a creative way of thinking and working.
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Plug-Ins and XTensions: Amp Your Apps
Whether you're an expert who knows all the shortcuts or your software skills could use a helping hand, specialized plug-ins let you work smarter, not harder. Check out this round-up of the latest plug-ins for Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, and QuarkXPress.
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What's New In Creative Suite 2
In this excerpt from "InDesign Magazine Issue 5," we give you details on the hot new features in the suite as a whole, and in the updated Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, InDesign, and Acrobat.
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dot-font: Acrobatics -- Putting the Story on the Screen
How do you meet the challenge of designing a PDF page for comfortable reading of a long piece of fiction -- onscreen? John Berry tells the saga.
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Heavy Metal Madness: A Woman's Work is Never Done
Is it an international conspiracy to convince women to cook and clean for free, or just desperate marketers? Gene Gable looks at ads from the past and reflects on whether today's women have reached equality.
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Keep Editorial Fingers Out of Your Layouts
Widows, orphans, bad breaks. Just the sound of them is enough to make you cry. And in your carefully designed layout, they look even worse. While today's page-layout software automates many things, beautifully set type doesn't just happen. Charles Purdy shows you what to look for and how to fix it.
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Design How-To: Solve Color Dilemmas
No matter what you're creating -- a print piece, a Web site, an illustration -- the element with the greatest effect on your audience is color. How do you choose the right one, or even more daunting, the best mix?
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Design How-to: A Better Newsletter
Before & After magazine is renowned for its practical yet beautiful advice on laying out pages. This excerpt from the book "Before & After Page Design" is no exception. Here's all you need to know -- from the basics to the refined detail -- to design successful newsletters.
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Paper Tips: Paper Cuts that Help, Not Hurt
One way to reduce printing costs is to cut the cost of your paper. And who better to give advice on that than PaperSpecs.com, an independent, online paper database? In this article from PaperSpecs, you'll find 27 ways to trim paper expenses.
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Design How-to: Endless Pattern Possibilities
Just one simple step-and-repeat technique is all you need to create striking background patterns perfect for the covers of books, annual reports, brochures -- you name it.
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Plug-Ins and XTensions: Image Ager & Repair, Tracing Tool, QXP Scaler
There's something for everyone in this month's round-up: Repair images or distress them. Open QuarkXPress 6 documents in XPress 4 or 5, or batch-convert XPress files to InDesign. Read on for more helpful add-ons.
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