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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Quark How-To: Fill Type with Artwork in QuarkXPressCategory: Design and imaging tutorials How would you fill type with artwork or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator? If the artwork-filled type is going to end up in a QuarkXPress layout, why worry about transparency, clipping path, or image preview issues? Instead, you can fill the type directly within XPress.
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Design How-To: Choose the Right Typeface Every TimeCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Flashy typefaces are fun, but when you design something with large blocks of text, you need a font that doesn't tire your readers. We share our favorites and reveal easy tricks for identifying other suitable choices.
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Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and InDesign Get a Little Help From Their FriendsCategory: Design and imaging tutorials We've got the scoop on the latest plug-ins for your favorite applications. Whether you want to quickly replace colors or reduce noise in photos, script anything in a publication, or typeset equations directly in your page-layout program, you'll find the info you need here.
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Heavy Metal Madness: The Family that Boats Together…Category: Design and imaging tutorials For many, summer means getting out the speedboat and waterskiing, cruising, or fishing. Gene Gable looks at the artwork associate with recreational boating and wonders why boaters are compelled to wave enthusiastically as they merrily skip over the waves.
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Paper Tips: Bend Over BackwardCategory: Design and imaging tutorials There are so many ways to fold printed pieces, and so many odd terms to describe the folds: accordion, gate, exotic, map, parallel... If you're even a little confused, read this primer. The easy-to-understand descriptions, helpful drawings, and tips for what folds are best for particular situations will make you a master of folds.
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Adobe Activation? Don't Worry, Be HappyCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Many people feel that once you pay for a software program, you should be able to install it on any computer you own. But with multiple computers (desktops at work and home, laptop for the road) becoming more common, honest software users are bumping into licenses and activation restrictions that don't share those same feelings. Is Adobe headed for a draconian activation policy?
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QuarkXPress How-To: Make Text Jump Through HoopsCategory: Design and imaging tutorials Actually, your text will be a hoop after you follow this step-by-step on placing text on a path in QuarkXPress. No need to open an illustration program.
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Plug-Ins and XTensions: It's a Plug-Inpalooza!Category: Design and imaging tutorials Create Brushes, Backdrops, and Engravings in Photoshop; Correct PDFs; Add Maps and Automate Data in Illustrator; Relink Pictures in QuarkXPress and InDesign; and Record QuarkXPress AppleScripts.
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Design How-to: Brochures that Get NoticedCategory: Design and imaging tutorials You don't need metallic inks or tricky die-cuts to create a brochure everyone wants to pick up. Just offset the folds and work a little design magic. It's easy -- we even give you templates!
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Heavy Metal Madness: We, the Yearbook NerdsCategory: Design and imaging tutorials It's the time of the year when graduates around America pick up their yearbooks and flip through the pages in anticipation of what surprises or embarrassments might await. Gene Gable wonders how many other graphic professionals got started while working on a yearbook staff, and considers that not all the lessons learned are about layout or photo cropping.
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