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Last-Second Valentine Gifts

Creative professionals are often expected to come up with thoughtful, unusual, handmade, heartfelt gifts for their valentines. Hopefully you've been too busy with work for all that. These last-second gifts may save your reputation.

Facebook Gives Photographers Better Viewing Experience

New Facebook lightbox feature offers alternative to Google+ and Flickr.

Kodak Tosses Digital Cameras in the Dustbin

Legendary camera company decides to focus on online and retail imaging service.

How to Price Your Work

Learn how to charge your clients what you're truly worth. Strategic pricing will not only make you more successful financially, it will make clients more satisfied.

How to Use QR Codes

"QR Codes for Publishing and Marketing" is a 36-page eBook from the Seybold Report. It's now on sale at a lower-than-normal introductory price.

J.C. Penney Logo Changes Again

Less than a year after a major logo redesign, the retail giant J.C. Penney takes another step toward blah.

Like Etsy for the Digital Set

The team behind Colourlovers is introducing Creative Market, a new site for selling your digital patterns, brushes, fonts, and other digital creations.

Start Your 2012 Marketing Right

Marketing pro Ilise Benun is leading a free webinar on January 12 called "The Only Marketing Tools You Need for 2012". The webcast is sponsored by  HOW magazine.

25 Champions of Design

jkr, a UK design agency, is giving away its book "Champions of Design". Get your copy now and discover what makes great design.

Get Answers to Five QR Code Questions

A free PaperSpecs webinar led by Daniel Dejan of Sappi Paper will introduce you how to use QR and AR codes in marketing campaigns. The online seminar will be held on December 13, 2011.

Best of the Blogs: November 17, 2011

If you've been distracted by headline news over the past few weeks, here's what you missed in design and photography blogs: revisiting 1990s typography, debunking UV filter myths, getting the light right, demystifying Photoshop resampling options, peeking at designer workspaces, and touring Erik Spiekermann's house. Plus, an opportunity to change someone's life with your camera.

Sharpen Your Photo Business Skills

A free five-part class from stock agency PhotoShelter aims to give you the know-how to run your own photography business, from crafting a portfolio that lands you jobs to creating repeat customers.

2012 Salary Guide Now Available

The Creative Group has updated its yearly Salary Guide, which lists starting salary ranges for design and marketing positions in the United States and Toronto.

Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011

This circumnavigation of the blogosphere includes posts about fonts (best, worst, and missing), color correction (Photoshop curves and/or levels), paper (handmade and mill run), printers (desktop and press), color calibration (monitor and printer), and an impressive if controversial demo of photo-deblurring technology. Plus, job hunting tips and product how-tos.

Find Logo Thieves with Google's Image Search

Whether they're unscrupulous or simply ignorant, other people may be using your designs as their own. Track down the crooks with Google's Image Search.

Adobe Dramatically Drops Price of iPad Publishing

The new Single Edition of Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) makes publishing to the iPad from InDesign affordable for almost every creative pro.

Webinar Series Tackles Business Concerns of Creative Pros

Would you like business advice from Von Glitschka, Daniel Schutzsmith, and other experts for free? Then check out this webinar series from The Graphic Artists Guild.

Free Guide to Email Marketing

MailChimp, the email newsletter service with a sense of humor, is giving away another guide that's handy for anyone who uses emailing for marketing (or designs those marketing messages).

Print Reseller Certification Series

This seven-stage course is free and online. Complete it and you'll be a certified print reseller with $250 in print credit at PrintingForLess.com.

Best of the Blogs: 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.