JUNE Surf for Web DESIGN
It's that time again... summer's here and we're surfing... the WEB that is!
SURF's UP.. on the web
Cool sites we found this month ... including: TijuanaFlats.com... HOT'cha! * The Seventh Sense * Big Happy Fun House * Chill In The Ville * Norma Jean Markus * minimal and you're not going to believe the Virtual Body Jam -- amongst many others sent in by readers... Let's Go Surfing
June Photoshop (SURF) Madness
Doing the Curl * Tattoos in Photoshop * Boardwalk Movie Star * Five Tips for Optimizing GIFs * Web Hands-On Training * What is Depth of Field * Photoshop's Shadow/Highlight tool * Brick Wall Tutorial * question of the month * PTPerspective Photoshop Plugin * Warning Dialogs * Free Stuff and much more... in Photoshop Madness
Web Critique: First United Methodist Church
Beth Rogers is back with us to share one of her thoughtful web site critiques. This time we travel to Richmond Indiana to find a nice web site for a change... join us for this critique of www.firstumcrichmond.org
Looking for Visuals at Visual Orange
Bernard Peh takes a look at the www.visualorange.net web site -- while having a common corporate look, the striking words "Visual Orange" lead us to believe we would be seeing lots of visuals. See if you agree with Bernard's summation of The Visual Orange
Making the Wrong Drop Shadows in Photoshop
20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball joins us to point out the most common drop shadow techniques and how to deal with them. As we've said for years... nothing spoils a Photoshop retouch project more than Common Drop Shadow Mistakes
Common Newsletter Design Mistakes (Part 2)
The Dean of Desktop Publishing, Roger C. Parker joins us with a tutorial to help make your newsletters attention-getting, attractive, and easy to read... all part of his new book Design to Sell 12 most common newsletter design mistakes, now completed with Part 2
The Life and Deaths of the Printed Word
William J. Sonn traces the seismic societal shifts which followed each dramatic drop in the cost of written knowledge. What do current technological advances and "free information" via the Internet hold for the future? This is must reading for anyone involved in printing, typesetting or graphic design... Paradigms Lost
Post Card Marketing
Martha Retallick, "The Passionate Postcarder" -- leading expert on post card marketing has released her latest tool box with ROI calculators, and market costing tracking -- for high-powered marketing... Post Card Marketing eBook & Tools
Field Trip: "The Artist's Channel"
Visit this television channel on your computer via the internet with more than 100 hours of art instruction like drawing, watercolor, oils, acrylics, pastels, colored pencils, printmaking and a number of other areas. Get instruction from top artists like Janet Walsh, Eric Wiegardt, Ellen Fountain, Johnnie Liliedahl and others on the "The Artist's Channel".
60-Seconds #183: Photos wrecked my email
Have we reached the end of Netiquette? Just because people think everyone has fast internet, and nobody cares about bandwidth -- doesn't necessarily mean you should still be sending huge pictures in email! Eventually, huge Photos will wreck your email!
JULY: Show us your digital photos
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The Editor's Newsletter includes: QuarkXPress 7 arrives * A Pile of CDs, now what? * OS X Font Conspiracy * Website Design: DIY, Free or Pay? * Search Engine Optimization for the Rest of Us * Red-eye reduction now patented * A Small Business Approach To Computer Downtime * Turn Typos to Gold * Goowy... * and more &Else!
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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
Previously:
- Photoshop: Quick and easy Powder Pastels
- Photoshop: Centering the Radial Blur in Photoshop
- Photoshop: Put an Image into A Shape... in Photoshop
- Reviews: Photoshop Elements 5
- Reviews: TINTBOOK Builds Colors on Uncoated Stock
- Commentary: Gary Dickson is back with A Designer's Education
- DTP: Best Rules For Printing Your Piece Perfectly
- Business: Building Your Portfolio on the web
- Gallery: Tour the Masters of Graphic Design Lettering
- Event: Letters As Image Opening Night
- Design: The Color of Spring color bursting out all over
- Photoshop: Color Madness Mother's Day
- Photoshop: Hand Tinting Photographs in Photoshop Wizard and Author Tim Shelbourne
- Photoshop: Burned Holes using Photoshop Elements and Photoshop...
- Editor's Choice: Visual Culture of Modern Iran pure eye-candy in the 10th degree
- Designing Women: Illustrator Laura Smith
- Designing Women: Kristen Nikosey spectacular art
- Designing Women: Sue Goyen nature, flowers and art
- Editor's Choice: Arabic for Designers A Profound Bridge Between Cultures...
- Event: Letter As Image / Image As Letter
- Reviews: Ben Long's Photoshop Action Pack 2.0
- News: 100 Years of Signs.
- Web Critique: Deco Spirit
- Designing Women: Photo retouching with Katrin Eismann
- Creative Net: Readers talk about Designing Women
- Designing Women: Daniela Stockenhuber
- Designing Women: Lisa Mullis is Spright Design
- Graphics & Art: Text on a Path, Circular Type
- 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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