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View Source: Make Web Site Elements Partially Transparent
Dave Sawyer McFarland shows you how to use CSS3 to create all kinds of transparency effects, including overlapping, partially transparent text and buttons. His technique even works in Internet Explorer!

The following screenshot may look like it was created with Photoshop layers, but it's actually a Web page done via cascading style sheets.

To Boldly Go... Or Is It Italically?
In any family, you can always spot the role of certain members. Typeface families are no different. James Felici explains how to use the little siblings bold, italic, and bold italic.

Bad things happen when italic and roman collide:

Scanning Around With Gene: Twin-Bed Relationships
Up until the 1960s, most 20th-century depictions of married life in the movies, TV, and even home-decorating magazines placed couples in separate beds. Gene Gable shares his favorite examples.

Related Reading: Now that you know what mid-century bedrooms supposedly looked like, take a peek at mid-century kitchens.

TypeTalk: Point Size and Letter Spacing
When you make type bigger or smaller, don't forget to adjust the letter spacing, too. The result, Ilene Strizver says, will be more evenly colored text.

When you set a typeface that's spaced for display usage (such as Helvetica Neue Thin, below) at smaller point sizes, increase the tracking gradually to create the appearance of even letter spacing.

Related Reading: Some foundries address this issue with optical sizes.

Fill Text with Images in Photoshop
A picture's worth a thousand words. And when your words are a picture, it's worth a million. Chad Neuman walks you through making images like the one below using Photoshop's clipping masks.

New iPhone Color App: myPantone

Alien Skin Updating Blow Up

Help for Moving from Print to Web Design

iStockphoto Guarantees that All of Its Files Are Legally Sound

DIY Tilt-Shift Photography

CreativePro.com Podcast: Snow Leopard news (including bugs); Halloween fonts; and Acrobat, InDesign, and QuarkXPress tips

The Selby features Todd Selby's photographs, paintings, and videos by of interesting people and their creative spaces.

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