WDYDWYD?
When PrintingForLess.com president and CEO Andrew Field sent me a link to a Web site a few weeks ago, he probably didn't intend that I spend hours clicking through the site's archives. That site, wdydwyd.com, is made up of many people's answers to one simple question: "Why do you do what you do?"

Anyone can post an answer in the form of text combined with images (still or moving). Founder Tony Deifell calls the results a "worldwide community-art project." While some of the answering images may be pedestrian, others are undoubtedly artful, like this submission from Howie Alex:

Check out the site and its accompanying Flickr and Facebook presences. But you may want to wait until you have a few hours to spend there.

Smooth Operator: Make More Flattering Portraits
No matter how attractive the person you're photographing, most people can benefit from a bit of digital tweaking. Ben Long explains how to smooth skin texture and add a little oomph using Photoshop, and how to speed up the process using the Portraiture 2.0 plug-in.

Related Reading: Here's another portrait retouching tutorial.

Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies
In this month's roundup of online bargains, Pariah Burke highlights Photoshop brushes, back-up software, an hourly rate estimator, a Photoshop plug-in to create favicons, and a seven-font type family. And of course, they're all free!

Related Reading: A few of the freebies have been revised since Anne-Marie Concepcion wrote this article, but many are still as good as ever.

Scanning Around with Gene: Makin' Pages With Bruce
Technology changes. Music changes. But for more than 35 years, Bruce Springsteen and Helvetica have been Gene Gable's constant spirits in the night.

Related Reading: Because of Gene's documented fondness for the Ramones, I didn't expect him to be a Bruce fan, as well.

Make Art that Makes a Splash
Get all Jackson Pollock and make a splash -- literally. Then use Photoshop and Illustrator's Live Trace feature to bring your art into the digital world. Chad Neuman's tutorial makes the process fun and easy, and the results are unique.

Related Reading: Chad's an expert at cool image tricks.

TypeTalk: Groups Words When Justifying
Here's how to justify a series of unrelated words and word groups in InDesign and QuarkXPress so the space between them automatically adjusts with the width of the text box, while keeping the word groups together.

Related Reading: What about justifying paragraphs of text?

10 Tools for Working with HTML and CSS

Free WhatTheFont for the iPhone

Free Updates to Art Files and Sneak Peek Pro

Podcast: Hard drive fixes, software glitches, and lots of tips

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