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DT&G:   Vol. 16, Number 3,   March, 2006   ~   The eZine for Design, Typography, & Graphics   (since 1990)  

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

Katrin EismannThe 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

WomenThis 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

LisaThe 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 CircleAdobe CS2

TEXTAnswering 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

MadnessPhotoshop 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

GeorgeAuthor 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

Stencil GraphicsJake 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...
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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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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?

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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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