Designing Women
In celebration of Women's History Month, each year we celebrate women in the design or visual communications fields. During February we selected four top flight woman designers to be spotlighted. You'll meet three of them (below) and more over in the April issue!
Feature Guest: Katrin Eismann
The original Photoshop Diva is back with an all new edition of her deliriously fabulous Photoshop Retouching & Restoration book -- she stops in to chat with DTG readers about what's most important these days in the world of Photoshop and photo retouching with Katrin Eismann
Women in Design & Art
This month selected DTG readers share their thoughts on our "Designing Women" theme with Art Nouveau, Polynesian influence and one who says "Women have an advantage" ... Designing Women
Designing Women: Daniela Stockenhuber
Seldom do we see such fire and excitement in a designers' work as we do in that of Daniela Stockenhuber. Wow! is about all we can say about her considerable portfolio of stand-out graphic arts and packaging design ... visit Daniela Stockenhuber
Designing Women: Lisa Mullis is Spright Design
The Greening of Design... Lisa Mullis' Spright Design offers graphic arts and packaging design services to a unique audience: those who have an appreciation for "Green" design. With Lisa's superb talent, those companies get a lot of bang from Spright Design
Type On A Path or Around a Circle
Answering one of the most frequent questions at Photoshop 911 and DTG, this monster, 4-page pictorial tutorial that shows you how -- not just Photoshop, but InDesign, Illustrator and Quark XPress as well... Text on a Path, Circular Type
March Photoshop Madness
Photoshop Madness is back with another cool newsletter... this month we're instituting four new standing features: 1. Book of the Month (with freebies from the book); 2. Tutorial of the Month (TOM), 3. Question of the Month (QOM) and the answer, 4. Art is Where You Find It, and the occasional STUPID site of the month. It's all good, all fun -- and seriously folks... it's true Photoshop Madness
InDesign CS2
Author and Macintosh technical expert George M Engel -- a die-hard PageMaker user -- found Adobe's InDesign a bit of a pain to get used to... but now he's found some new features that he really likes in the new Adobe InDesign CS2
Editor's Choice: Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
Jake Smallman and Carl Nyman transport you to the magical world of Melbourne, Australia where stencil graffiti reaches the ultimate personal expression as street art. Discover this powerful medium with thought provoking text and lavish photo journalism in Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne
Promote yourself with a Mini Scratch Pad Press
This enterprising young entrepreneur took the antiquated "Build it yourself Padding Press" from boring to exciting with improvements and streamlining! Best of all, you don't have to build it yourself... The Mini Padding Press
Readers talk about racism in Design
An outpouring of response from DTG readers presents a wide range of Letters to the Editor regarding previous articles about Racism in Design
& Photographic: Scale Up your Studio
A letter from a reader asks how to photograph large objects that go beyond our "In-House Studio" series, so we discuss Scaling Up Your In-House Studio
April: DISTURBING DESIGNS
Our March theme is Women's History Month... and DESIGNING WOMEN! We'll be discovering famous accomplishments by women, and we'll be visiting studios of women in the visual arts, design, illustration and communications industry. WIN some of our valuable prizes by sharing with DT&G readers Tell us your...
Favorite Women Designers
Accomplishments by women in the arts
Your experiences as a Designing Woman
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Photoshop Questions Need Answers
Photoshop 911 has been overwhelmed with questions from readers -- looking for answers! If you are a Photoshop guru, we urge you to stop in and tackle some of the many Photoshop and Photoshop Elements questions from the Photoshop 911 Help Line. Help us Answer Questions from Readers
& ELSE...
The Editor's Newsletter includes: Mailbag * Flash Photo Albums (Windows) * Proven Web Content Success Factor: Scan-ability * New Drive Power: TechTool Protege * PDF-FORUM for Print Production * New Tiger Training Books * Got Pictures? Sell on Fotolia * Advantages of Accelerated Learning * Allume's CheckIt Repair * Computer Theft - Will you be the next victim? * IRS Alert: Tax Fraud * Spam, HotStockChat, and the Pump n Dump * Contest for Outstanding Design Students * The Million Pixel Image &Else!
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Photoshop 911 Tips & Tricks
- Photoshop Natural Looking Colored Pencils - the best way to color a black and white ink drawing in photoshop and make it look like it was done with color pencils...
- Creating a "Light Sabre" in Photoshop - ... inspired by the Star Wars movies...
- Photoshop Blends Color to Grayscale - What is the quickest way to achieve this? Multiple layers? Layer masks?...
- Hiding the transparency grid - detailed art is sometimes obscured by the transparency pattern... how to cure in Photoshop...
- Replacing Color in Photoshop CS2 - ... replace color while maintaining texture and shading...
- Losing Selections, Saving Selections - ... Nothing's more frustrating than losing a complicated selection... here's what to do...
- Seeing web images from Photoshop - How can I see what web graphics will look like...
- Quickmask feathering - QuickMask for Feathering only a portion of the selection...
- How to get started in Photoshop - I need to set up ads... and don't know where to start...
- Solid Black to a Color in Photoshop - How can I change the solid black to another specified color...
- Automating Crop Straighten - - gang-scan photos then automatically straighten...
MORE: continues on the next page...
Previously:
- Design: Function is Dead... Long Live Function
- Web Critique: India Gift Services dot com Fonts: Gallo Heraldic Symbols
- Web Critique: Tightline Design dot com
- DTP: Adobe InDesign Speed Tricks
- 60-Seconds: #179 Pump & Dump Stock Scams
- Business: Argue for a bigger budget
- Web Design: Proven Web Content Success Factor: Scan-ability
- Photoshop: Convert a Photo to a Pencil Sketch
- BEST: The Best of 2005 our choices for the best books in 2005
- BEST: Reader Favorites from 2005 selected reader posts talk about "favorites"
- BEST: Fred Picks the BEST from '05 my favorite computer, gizmos and software
- Photoshop: Madness for a new year
- 60-Seconds: #178 Crooks who sell software
- Fonts: Everyone needs a little Script: New scripts from P22
- Business: Sure Signs You're Not Getting Paid: Biz smarts from Susan Kirkland
- Web: Web Page in a Day: Dreamweaver training from Joyce Evans
- Design: Racism in Design: reader complaints open important issues
- Photoshop: Madness for the Holidays!
- Design: Unique Greetings with Fantastic Folds
- Graphics: the dreaded iPod TV Commercial Effect
- Graphics: Adobe Photoshop Elements Crafts Book
- Stuff: Slideshows in a Picture Frame
- News: PMDA Announces Person Of The Year Awards
- Business: Spyware & Malware Quiz
- Graphics: Anthony Cole: Legacy of Illumination
- Design: How to design a logo of letters
- Adobe: Adobe Bridge to InDesign
- Review: Building Color with Tintbooks
- MORE: on the next page...
Got Photoshop Questions? Who do you call?
Visit Photoshop 911's blog -- now you can comment on posts, and even lend a helping hand where needed... who do you call?
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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