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DT&G: Vol. 14, Number 11, November, 2004 ~ The eZine for Design, Typography, & Graphics   (since 1990)  

November: Designing Holidays

In October we asked Design CAFE subscribers to comment on their favorite holiday promotions, folding cards, and creative ideas. We received a number of great idea starters, and here are a few. Watch for more as the holiday season continues... DT&G readers talk about great holiday promotions.
      Don't forget, the Holidays Jumpstation and Holidays Loading Dock are open with lots of new and old stuff for you to discover. The link is in the newsletter

Fantastic Folds: Part One

Where do you look for creative ideas in crafting a unique, creative holiday greeting and promotional mailing? One of the elements of print media is folding. It comes along with the job, and if you incorporate a unique fold, your piece will be truly memorable. Here's the first part of our series on "Designing with Paper Folds"

Adobe Photoshop CS For Photographers

Martin Evening

Martin Evening's latest Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Mac and PC is a blockbuster with no padding or fluff -- all solid Photoshop training and pure inspiration for even the fine arts painter.
This month's Editor's Choice

Inspiration in a Bottle

Gary Dickson Discover sources of inspiration that may just take you to the next level of creativity! Designer/Author Gary Dickson asks: "Where does your inspiration come from?" ... then shares his experiences with Inspiration in a Bottle

The Graphics Master is Back

Graphics

Now in its 8th edition, Dean Lem's industry bible is simply the best print production workbook ever produced! Through twenty-three printings of seven editions, the latest volume links the new digital prepress applications with essential traditional printing information. If you print, you need the Graphics Master 8

Using Postcards to Promote Your Design Studio

MarthaMartha Retallick, "The Passionate Postcarder" -- leading expert on post card marketing shares some important advice on saving a lot of time and money in your marketing. Before you splurge on the Yellow Pages or other media, read Martha's take on Using Postcards to Promote Your Design Studio

Picture Perfect Holiday Postcards

It doesnt take a lot of time, money or effort to create, print and mail a postcard. But when done right, postcards can be enormously effective

Color Photos Converted to Text

artextThe Worlds first colour digital photo to colour text convertor is truly one of the most innovative developments in a long time! You simply must see Simon Leung's Artext Photo Converter

60-Seconds #169: SpamCop Full Circle

When my spam load hit 1,000 spams a day, I gave up the fight against spam and just started deleting them all. I was ashamed of myself because I had stopped helping my fellow netizen. But then I returned to SpamCop, and that began the rest of the story... 60-Second Windows

Printing Primer for Designers

Originally published in 1989, this printing primer for digital artists has been updated and annotated for today's digital desktop publisher. We've supplied an additional check list for publishing, press-checks, and a collection of references all desktop publishers need to know about: Print Primer for DTP

"DIGITAL DECEMBER" Contest:

While we want to continue getting your favorite Fantastic Folds for Greeting Cards, our December topic will shift slightly to great ideas using your digital camera. So, we're asking you to share your unique and creative discoveries for using Digital Cameras for the Holidays. Just answer any of those questions at our PRIZE REGISTRATION PAGE and you could get your comments published and be a lucky prize winner!

Babel Color Brings New Color

The BabelColor Company has rolled out the second version of "BabelColor", a color comparator and translator software designed for the Mac and Windows platforms. Babel Color Color Comparator

Beware: Online Criminals at Large

You are drawn into a web site appearing to be authentic with familiar graphics and logos... but wait! Something's wrong with this email... something's seriously wrong! Rusbiz.com's Nowshade Kabir demystifies the emerging crime wave of Phishing for Your Identity.

Current Web Site Critique Briefs

This month readers look at Painting by Anne Stahl; the James Anderson Unofficial Site; Georgetown University, the Black Hills Pow Wow Association and one the reviewer says "sucks" the Internet personals/dating site. See these Critique Briefs sent in by readers

&ELSE News & Views

See this month's newsletter including: Fantastic Folds; Adobe Photoshop CS For Photographers; Inspiration; Graphics Master; Postcards; Color Photos Converted; SpamCop Full Circle; New Kenn Munk Font: 'Psychophante'; Babel Color; Current Web Site Critique Briefs; 3D "Covers" Generator; Red Eye Pilot for Mac; Cfont Pro: Windows Font Management; Fun Site of the Month; MailBag (3); Design Associations; Mac virus?; iPod Photo; Shareware and many more...: November news, resources shareware and contacts

New Photoshop Tutorials

Fake Circular Text for PS 6/7 * Save for Web * Image Viewing & Navigating * Painting Basics * Choosing Color * Using Texturizer Filter * Using Sharpen and Gaussian Blur Filters * Using History palette in Photoshop * How to minimize overexposed areas from electronic flash too close to subject * Weighted Optimization * Save As in Actions * Optimizing Image in ImageReady * Equalizing Tone * Unsharp Mask * Replace Color * Color Corrections with Hue/Saturation by Andrei Doubrovski and others... all in the Photoshop 911 Resource Department

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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