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Digital Video on a Shoestring

Features: Written by Eric J. Adams on December 29, 2000

There's little question that digital video is revolutionizing the movie-making process. But what are the limits of digital video? Can you make a movie with consumer-grade equipment on a budget that would hardly fund a single day on a traditional Hollywood shoot?

Great Sites: Holocaust Memories Live in Media-Rich Site

Features: Written by Clay Andres on December 28, 2000

This site doesn't sell or advertise anything. It doesn't ask you to register or fill out a survey. It will probably never be updated, and yet it will never be outdated. It is a site that exists solely for the presentation of its content. What a concept.

Add Form and Texture with the Lighting Effects Filter

Features: Written by Greta Cloutier on December 28, 2000

One of Photoshop's most useful design filters is Lighting Effects. It allows you to apply a variety of lighting scenarios to your graphics as well as to textures. For such a useful filter, it's not covered well in any Adobe literature or even the Help section.

dot-font: "It's [Still] Alive!"

Features: Written by John D. Berry on December 22, 2000

The subject of type on screen is a huge one, running the gamut from movie title sequences to the text type in electronic books. Because in today's postmodern, digitized, post-20th-century, media-saturated environment, screens are everywhere -- and so is type.

For Position Only: Got Your Provisions?

Features: Written by Anita Dennis on December 21, 2000

If you're like me, you lost track of dot-com closures and cancelled IPOs back in June, and the preannouncements of lower-than-expected tech earnings began to blur sometime in November.

Sony DSC-F505v: Would You Like Some Camera with that Lens?

Reviews: Written by Ben Long on December 20, 2000

The DSC-F505v marks Sony's entrance into the 3.3-megapixel digital camera fray... sort of.

Image Grabber: Stock Photo Search Done Right (and Fast)

Reviews: Written by Luisa Simone on December 19, 2000

Graphic arts professionals are constantly on the lookout for productivity-enhancing tools that can cut down on the overhead of a design business, leaving them more time for their creative pursuits. The current release of Image Grabber from Random Eye Technologies is a nifty Web-based utility that can streamline the picture-research process.

Turn a QuarkXPress Document into a Web Page with BeyondPress

Features: Written by Renee Dustman on December 18, 2000

If you're pulling double duty as a desktop publisher and a Webmaster, you may be laying out pages for print in QuarkXPress and then re-creating them in an entirely different Web authoring application. If that's the case, you're also probably mumbling under your breath, "There's got to be an easier way." Well, there is.

Notes From the Epicenter: Left Behind No More

Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on December 18, 2000

The splash screen on the news before Al Gore's concession speech last week read "Election 2000: The Final Chapter." Besides sounding like one more bad sequel in a played-out horror movie franchise, the blurb is an eerily accurate and timely assessment of the state of the San Francisco political scene.

dot-font: It's Alive!

Features: Written by John D. Berry on December 15, 2000

As apparent from my previous column, I spent substantial time thinking about an upcoming Type Directors Club conference of late, and the exercise afforded me an excellent vista of an expansive topic.

CSS2: Font Management

Features: Written by Chuck Musciano on December 15, 2000

More than any other feature of the Cascading Style Sheet specification, font management is probably the most important. Throughout the evolution of HTML, font control has become increasingly sophisticated and feature rich. Over the next few weeks, we'll examine the latest set of advancements in font management brought forth by the CSS2 standard.

The Bauhaus Designer Paul Renner

Features: Written by Nicholas Fabian on December 15, 2000

Paul Renner was born 1878 in Germany. He was a graphic designer, typographer, type designer, painter, and teacher. From 1908 to 1917 he designed books for a living for the Münich publishing trade.

The Digital Dish: Vectors Hit the Page

Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on December 14, 2000

As my last column indicated, I am effusive about the joys of working with vectors.

Dreamweaver 4: Something for Everyone

Reviews: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on December 13, 2000

Macromedia Dreamweaver has made building and maintaining Web sites easier since its debut, but as Web development changes, so too must its tools. With version 4, Dreamweaver has grown into a mature tool intended to address the real-world concerns of professional Web designers and developers.

Nickelodeon's Smooth Move to All-Digital Animation

Features: Written by Eric J. Adams on December 12, 2000

Workflow is always a major issue when creating broadcast animation, but when the animation becomes a digital process from drawing to post-production, workflow reigns supreme. Such was the thinking last year when cable television network Nickelodeon took the digital plunge from the ground up, creating a 100-percent-digital animation studio in New York.

Avoiding the Routine with Dreamweaver Templates

Features: Written by Ron Wilder on December 12, 2000

Once you've figured out the basic design of your site, the remainder of your work is largely repetitious. Put a little text here, insert a graphic there. Click, click, click, drag, click. Boring! And in a way, it's sort of anti-climactic. After all, you've already done the challenging stuff. All that's left is the grunt work.

Notes From the Epicenter: Fighting the Power

Features: Written by Andrea Dudrow on December 11, 2000

Sure, San Francisco want ads still scream "pre-IPO" in hopes of attracting young go-getters, but the formerly vaunted acronym is now more likely to be the punch line of a cocktail party joke than an actual hiring incentive.

dot-font: Working with the Logo

Features: Written by John D. Berry on December 8, 2000

It's a truism of sorts for most designers than it's easier to work within a defined set of constraints than with complete artisitic freedom, yet the constraints applied to any given job often give rise to the bullk of the job's challenges and frustrations. This can be especially true when having to design around an existing logo.

For Position Only: Is That Your Final Color?

Features: Written by Anita Dennis on December 7, 2000

So you've been publishing for print and the Web for years now and you think you're pretty hot stuff, don't you?

Becoming a Master in Your Digital Darkroom

Features: Written by Ron Wilder on December 6, 2000

If you've ever been smitten by the photography bug, you've probably yearned at least once or twice to try your hand at processing your own prints in the darkroom. However, many people are hesitant to try it, fearing they'll irreparably damage their negatives.

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