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Scanning Around With Gene: The Images of Autumn

GeneGable — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:32:32 -0600

When I was growing up in southern California, the change of seasons was most noticeable in the lower hourly rates charged at beach parking lots. The only changing fall colors in Los Angeles are the intensity of people’s tans.

So when I moved to northern California, I was glad to be far enough north to get a hint of what fall is really all about. I live near wine country and the intensity of colors in the vineyards is impressive, though it still pales in comparison to some communities in the Northeast.

Logo for Maker of Little Blue Pill Gets a Makeover

Editor in Chief — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:25:15 -0700

The motto of the venerable and successful Siegel+Gale branding company is "Simple is smart." It followed that slogan to the letter in its recent retooling of the logo for pharmaceutical company Pfizer:

What do you think of the changes to the logo? Is it better, worse, or about the same? To speak up, click one of the Comments buttons above or below this article.

Flickr Friday: November 6, 2009

Editor in Chief — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:27:25 -0700

Most images showcased in Flickr Friday have Creative Commons licenses that allow for sharing and remixing, as long as proper attribution is given to the image originator.

This week's Flickr Friday installment is a demonstration of that license in action. The first image is a photo (titled only "IMG_0438") shot by axio in Hofburg, Vienna:

Scanning Around With Gene: The Pioneering Look Magazine

GeneGable — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:03 -0700

Even if you didn't read Life magazine when it was in print, you've probably seen old issues and are aware of the impact this great weekly had on American magazine publishing. But right behind Life was Look, an equally excellent publication that in some ways had even more influence than Life.

At its peak in 1967, more than 9.2 million copies of Look were printed on a ten-color printing press designed specifically for the magazine. The best-selling issue entailed printing more than 1 billion individual pages.

Flickr Friday Archives

Editor in Chief — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:27:39 -0600

This weekly CreativePro.com feature showcases graphics (photos, vector illustrations, and videos) from online image-sharing site Flickr. Some of these have even been approved for commercial use under the Creative Commons license. That means that as long as you follow the license details outlined by the creator, you can use the materials in your own work for free!

Flickr Friday: July 31, 2009

Industry Analysis: The Quiet Revolution in Proprietary File Formats

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:10:12 -0700

From The Pfeiffer Report. To learn more about The Pfeiffer Report, click here.

Flickr Apps Are Growing in the App Garden

Editor in Chief — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:46:21 -0700

For some people, Flickr works well. For others, its simplicity can be more frustrating than freeing. When people who feel limited are also software developers, the result can be a Flickr app.

Flickr has taken the first step toward making those apps more accessible to every Flickr user by creating the App Garden.

Unfortunately, the App Garden isn't divided into categories; in fact, navigation is almost non-existent. The closest you'll get is a tag cloud on the right-hand side of the garden's page:

Transform Images Into Kaleidoscope Patterns in Photoshop

Editor in Chief — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:42:06 -0700

Helen Bradley has written a thorough tutorial on using Photoshop to create kaleidoscope patterns from any photo with interesting color and shapes.

To read the tutorial, head to the Digital Photography School Web site.

Deepest Image Search Ever?

Editor in Chief — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:28:30 -0700

Ironic Software's application Deep is an amazing image searcher. It costs $34.

Pick a color, any color.

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

Editor in Chief — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:19:46 -0700

Reproduced with permission of Planet Quark

Adjustments applied in QuarkXPress’s Picture Effects palette (Window> Show Picture Effects) exist as part of the QuarkXPress project file -- they do not change the original source pictures.

Combine Image Creatively in Photoshop

Editor in Chief — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:51:49 -0700

One of the most rewarding projects you can tackle in Photoshop is combining images. Whether you're swapping skies, creating a collage, or building a panorama, it's a useful procedure that's also a lot of fun.

In this tutorial you'll learn how to fade one image into another using a gradient mask, and then you'll discover a new twist on the classic oval vignette collage.

Fade One Image into Another

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

Editor in Chief — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:51 -0600

ColorSuckr
Print and Web designers and illustrators often want to extract one or more colors from an image. Typically, it's a tedious process of clicking the Eyedropper tool to pick up the desired color, switching to the Swatches panel, and creating and naming a new swatch, or hovering the Eyedropper tool over pixels and writing down the color value from the Info panel. The more colors in the image, the longer and more boring this process is likely to become.

Until now.

Add Language Support to InDesign & Illustrator CS4

Editor in Chief — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:19:21 -0700

Press release

International software developer and distributor WinSoft announced the release of its newest products: ScribeDOOR for Illustrator CS4 and ScribeDOOR for InDesign CS4. ScribeDOOR adds the ability to edit and treat text in 21 complex languages, including Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi as well as many Indic and South-East Asian languages, to two of Adobe's powerful design and desktop publishing applications.

Mega Prizes for Veer's Logo Contest

Editor in Chief — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:08:09 -0700

Press release

Over the past two months, Veer has awarded $42,000 in prizes to winners of daily creative challenges. Now everyone has a chance to compete for the Grand Prize, in a contest where one person will win a laptop, software, and merch prize package worth nearly $8,000!

THE CONTEST

Scanning Around With Gene: Oddball Image Roundup Two

GeneGable — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:21:11 -0600

As I go through various publications and other sources looking for images, I always end up with a small pile of oddballs – images that catch my eye for one reason or another but don’t really fit in any one category. Sometimes they end up in the pile because the artwork is strange, sometimes because the message is disturbing, and sometimes because they are out of place for the time.

So once a year I round them up and present them in this hodge-podge collection. You can click on any image for a larger version.