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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.

Related Reading: Try a similar technique in QuarkXPress.

Get Selective in Camera Raw
Adobe's Camera Raw software is an amazing tool for improving your photographs. Using features such as the Adjustments Brush and the Graduated Filter, Ben Long helps you quickly turn a photo from "eh" to "ooh!"

Related Reading: Download the most recent Camera Raw update.

Scanning Around With Gene: Big Oil, Big Scenery, Big Ideas
A common tactic of industry through the decades has been to tie its brands and activities to the greatest accomplishments of God and man. But whatever -- Gene Gable's scans of these full-color lithographs are gorgeous!

Related Reading: More vintage scenery.

TypeTalk: Stroking Text in QuarkXPress
In QuarkXPress, you can apply a stroke (called a "frame" in XPress) to text. You can even affect whether that stroke falls on the inside or outside of the characters. But, as Ilene Strizver cautions, just don't try to edit the text after you apply the stroke.

Related Reading: Do you know how to use stroke offsets for depth effects in Illustrator?

The Best Black and White Images
When you're serious about working in black and white, you should be serious about the tools you use to convert color photographs to grayscale. Ben Long reviews Silver Efex and concludes that it gives you the power you need with the ease of use you want.

Related Reading: If you don't want to invest in Silver Efex and have an older version of Photoshop, this how-to's for you.

Flickr Images You Can Use Without Guilt

New Destination for Print Design Lovers

Smart Image Now Supports Creative Suite 4

New Podcast: Free Photoshop Webinars, Mac Buyer's Guide, Acrobat Tips

CreativePro.com Poll: Is the new Sci Fi Channel logo out of this world?

Thanks to Jennifer of Perrella Graphics for alerting us to this site, which claims to have every single advertisement in all major magazines from 1930 to 1969.

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