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Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing
News: Written by Terri Stone on February 8, 2012
Whether you're looking for the latest tips on publishing to tablets and ebooks, want details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6, or just need tips to optimize your print workflow, PEPCON is the place. The conference takes place in San Francisco on May 14-16.
Introduction to Illustrator: Part 2
How-Tos: Written by Von Glitschka on December 19, 2011
See how easy it is to customize Adobe Illustrator with tweaks to Preferences and graphic styles. Once you know how to use these and keyboard shortcuts, you're on your way to making the program fit your working style like a glove.
Introduction to Illustrator: Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Von Glitschka on December 5, 2011
Get back to basics with a tour of Adobe Illustrator's 12 core tools, which you can use to build precise vector graphics.
New Alphabets Bring Organic Looks to Your Projects
News: Written by Terri Stone on November 21, 2011
Give a human touch to your designs with SketchType's alphabets. There are three volumes of hand-drawn type sets for a total of 67 different alphabets. You can also buy any of the alphabets individually.
What Do You Think of the Creative Cloud?
News: Written by Terri Stone on November 11, 2011
Adobe's pushing a subscription model for its software and services, sweetening the deal with access to its Touch apps, webfonts, tablet publishing, and 18 desktop applications. But is it right for you?
Worry-Free Folding for Complex Print Projects
News: Written by Terri Stone on October 24, 2011
The FoldFactory is selling specialty fold templates and dielines at very reasonable prices so that you don't have to do the math.
Striking Starbursts Make Your Work Stand Out
How-Tos: Written by Deke McClelland on October 5, 2011
Why settle for Illustrator's default starburst shapes when a few tweaks create something unique that will really grab attention? Here are two ways to go beyond the ordinary.
Type Effects: The Ins and Outs of Inlines and Outlines
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on September 29, 2011
Adding rules to normally invisible character outlines can add novel--and historical--effects to your type. Here's how to do it in InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Illustrator.
Best of the Blogs: September 21, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on September 21, 2011
Lately, there have been a lot of provocative questions in design and photography blogs: Are there rules for creativity? Can designers embrace fear? What's the difference between looking at and seeing typography? But there's less cerebral stuff, too, like upgrading your camera, understanding image compositing, observing the day of a graphic designer, and filling your layouts with hipster lingo. I bring you all of that content and more in this installment of Best of the Blogs.
Build Shapes Quickly in Adobe Illustrator
How-Tos: Written by Cristen Gillespie Sharon Steuer on September 14, 2011
With Illustrator's Shape Builder, you can rapidly construct objects, such as a dimensional bowl, from simple overlapping shapes.
Best of the Blogs: August 15, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on August 15, 2011
It's an excellent round-up this time, with Photoshop tips, typography tricks, publishing news, and much more. And read to the end to find out why you'll soon be speccing shades of orange as Apu, Garfield, or Tigger.
Make Websites from Photoshop Files
News: Written by Terri Stone on August 1, 2011
If you're more comfortable in Photoshop or Illustrator than Dreamweaver, check out this two-part webinar. It's designed for people like you who need to create websites but don't know HTML and CSS. But hurry! The first webinar is this Thursday, August 4, 2011.
Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on August 1, 2011
Amuse and inform yourself with tidbits from design, graphics, and photography blogs culled from the past few weeks. Find out about Bodoni love, InDesign crashes, Illustrator annoyances, Photoshop freakouts, and how to make Polaroid film and illustrated manuscripts (but not at the same time).
New Mac OS, Lion, Causes Problems with Many Adobe Apps
News: Written by Terri Stone on July 21, 2011
Adobe has published a list of known issues its software has when running under the new Mac OS 10.7 (Lion).
Best of the Blogs: July 7, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on July 7, 2011
Mega-retailer Target meets tiny Hamilton Wood Type; Acrobat Pro X users get testy; photographers are called idiots; Photoshop warps girls' minds; and the Web is doomed. Read these and many other interesting tidbits culled from the past few weeks of design, graphics, and photography blog posts.
Turn a Photo into a Painting in Illustrator
How-Tos: Written by Sharon Steuer on July 6, 2011
Follow one artist as she walks you through the process of creating an illustration using a composite photo as a guide.
Free Printing Guidance for Adobe Apps
News: Written by Terri Stone on June 24, 2011
The Creative Suite 5/5.5 Printing Guide is 140 pages full of insider printing info that comes straight from the source: Adobe. The PDF, which covers InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Photoshop, is a free download.
Best of the Blogs, June 6, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on June 6, 2011
Here's what you may have missed in design and photography blogs during the past few weeks: an investigation of Adobe Myriad; a rallying cry for FreeHand; ideas for busting design and illustration roadblocks; a new social networking site for creatives; and much more.
Best of the Blogs: May 19, 2011
Features: Written by Pamela Pfiffner on May 19, 2011
Here's what you may have missed in design and photography blogs during the past couple of weeks: a new "pay-what-you-want" font source; a compilation of LinkedIn groups for publishers; an expert discussion about resume design; a Photoshop technique to fake tilt-shift photography; and much more.
New Illustrator Plug-In Makes Vector Creation & Editing Faster, Easier
News: Written by Terri Stone on May 6, 2011
VectorScribe, from Astute Graphics, comes in two versions: VectorScribe Designer, which costs about $65, and the even more powerful VectorScribe Studio, which costs $119. Both work with Adobe Illustrator versions CS3 through CS5.
