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DT&G: Vol. 14, Number 8, August, 2004 ~ The eZine for Design, Typography, & Graphics   (since 1990)  

August: Back to (Design) School

This month's topic is all about learning! And, as usual our readers have all joined in with some rather wonderful insights into the way they learn, favorite training resources, and keeping a sharply honed edge on graphic design and communication arts. August's winning designers on learning and education...

Design School? Training? Let's Go...

How do you like to learn? Books? CD-Videos? DVD? Or surfing the web? There are hundreds of ways to learn graphic design, Photoshop and other facets of the visual communications industry, and here we take a look at just a few ways to learn graphic arts

Deke McClelland's Total Training

TOTAL Reviewer Joyce Evans shares a brief look inside some of the best video training on the planet... with Photoshop expert Deke McClelland and the product called Total Training

Editor's Choice: HTML Complete Course

Author, Donna L. Baker chats about her latest book: HTML Complete Course; part of the Wiley/Seybold Complete Course series -- and discusses key issues of using HTML to build web sites...

Web Critique: University of Utah

Reviewer Mike Swope observes that this well organized site could use a little strength in branding and clarity... WDR agrees and adds a diagramed example page with subtle CSS tweaks that add polish and purpose to the CEUU Website.

Publishing: Learning About Color

colorColor expert Mike Davis of Colorprep knows what to do when color goes wrong... and many times it's the photographer or designer's fault! So what do you do When Good Color Goes Bad

Web Design: 5 Steps

designTim Clukey has been teaching web design for over 6 years at the Plattsburgh State University Communications Department in Plattsburgh, NY. He shares som insights into web design ... when crafting messages for the web, it's the steak and not the sizzle that makes a difference. Follow along with his 5 Ways to Get Your Website to Stand Out

Learning About Photo Mosaics

colorPhoto Mosaics are photographic images or pictures made up of many, usually hundreds, of smaller photographic images. Last month we asked the DTG readers about the topic and they flooded us with lots of help in learning all about Photo Mosaics

Web Design: Audience & Content

designAuthor and designer Karen Dodds first wrote for DT&G back in 1995 after we discovered her considerable skills in identifying the true essence of design. Here are her views on Karen Dodds on: Audience & Content

Software: Digital Photo Show-Off

With all the great programs like iView and iPhoto for the Mac, Windows readers wonder what they can use... so, we turn to Scott Kilborn from ACE Camera Magazine, to share some details about ProShow Gold 2.0 slide show and presentation software

Web Design: discussions in the CAFE

This rather long piece is from the Design Cafe list (July, 2004) wherein a listee asks "how do you learn web design creativity?" ... the following thread sheds interesting light on new design attitudes from a diverse group of designers who practice web design

Web Design: Are they reading?

Fred I've refreshed a talk I used to give back in the early 1990s which is still very valid today... web designers must remember how to learn, then how to put that knowledge to work... Designing Websites!

FALL FONTS FESTIVAL for SEPTEMBER

YES, it's that time of year again, when we celebrate all things about fonts, type and typography! You can WIN some of our valuable prizes, including the highly collectable "International Type Founders" fonts book by sharing with DT&G readers... we're turning to YOU to share your comments about type and typography! Just REGISTER FOR PRIZES here with your comments about:

  • Favorite fonts, and where to download them
  • Most thrilling typography layout
  • Unique and creative use of type
  • Pros and Cons of different type faces
  • Typography that sucks... the Good, Bad and Ugly

Identity Theft: Bad people on the web...

There's a new style of "phishing" in your email box, alerting you that someone has inquired about you... beware of this New Email Threat

&ELSE News & Views

Of course if you subscribed, you got this newsletter in email yesterday. This month: The Spam Letters; Design School Fun...; Marry Illustrator to a Database; FUN Site of the Month; How are you ranked on the Web?; Mail: Where is it?; Mail: Navigating the Center; Mail: Speech device for the blind; News: Protect and remember passwords; News: Video Surveillance on your PC; Win: Organize your media files in style; Stuff: Sticky Notes for Windows; Stuff: Find a file on your PC?; Stuff: Presentation templates; Stuff: Nature stock photography; 200 Digital Photography Tips; Have a great August; and the address for the Publishers' Warehouse Loading Dock. See: August Newsletter: & Else!
      PLUS: our new feature Designer of the Month . . . See: Fun Site of the Month

Got Photoshop Questions? Who do you call?

Last month we opened the doors of Photoshop 911's new blog. Now you can comment on posts, and even lend a helping hand where needed... who do you call? Photoshop 911

Recent Photoshop FAQs

&Else News & Reviews

... including: watch for the newsletter next week, along with all the news and happenings in the wonderful world of graphic design, typography and graphics.

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Photoshop 911 Call Reports

Here comes this month's batch of reports from the Photoshop 911 call line. The most interesting is how one user solves the problem of removing the background from multiple shots of a rotating product for a 3D video... there are seven others, and you'll want to read them all:
In the Photoshop 911 FAQ department

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