Now That's Creative
To help bring you what's new and interesting, I scan a lot of blogs that are, er, kind of weird. One of my favorites is Paul Overton's DudeCraft, which focuses on DIY crafts with a quirky edge -- a font fashioned from Venetian blinds, giant skulls made out of snow, etc. The other day, Paul wrote about a guy who built an interactive hanging sculpture out of mobile phones. The kicker: the sculpture plays carols. How could I resist sharing something so seasonally appropriate with you?

Experience Mobile Mobile from James Théophane Jnr on Vimeo.

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The 10 Best Apps to Improve Your iPhone Photos
When you're used to shooting with a full-fledged camera and editing images with Photoshop, the iPhone's camera and default software can be a disappointment. But download these ten apps (none of them expensive) and you'll be much happier with iPhone photos.

Author Ben Long shot this multi-picture panorama with an iPhone and joined the images with AutoStitch:

Scanning Around With Gene: It's a Wonderful Typeface
You've probably seen bits of "It's a Wonderful Life" a zillion times, but have you ever really examined the graphic design in Frank Capra's classic movie?

Now you can, because Gene Gable has captured stills from the movie and found vintage movie posters from the United Sates and Europe.

Related Reading: More ghosts of Christmas pasts.

The ABCs of H&J
Your most important type composition tools are in a place few people ever go: the hyphenation and justification dialog boxes. James Felici demystifies these dialog boxes so you can set the best type ever. For instance, you'll learn how to use an InDesign feature that flags hyphenation problems in three shades of yellow depending on the severity of the crime:

Create InDesign Effects that Wow!
These quick tutorials will add seven tricks to your toolbox: everything from a ripped-paper look to the reflection effect so popular right now. And you can do them all in InDesign, not Photoshop or Illustrator! For instance, you'll take a drop cap from this:

to this:

Creating Sharp Images: The Big Picture
To get sharper photos, you just apply the right sharpening settings in Photoshop and you’re done, right? Not quite. To create consistently sharp pictures, pay attention to important factors at every step of your photographic workflow -- especially steps that affect image contrast.

In the examples below, article author Conrad Chavez applied contrast adjustments and Unsharp Mask to the image on the left. The image on the right has the same amount of sharpening applied to the starting image but with none of the contrast adjustments. Big difference!

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 Vulnerable to Attack

Watch 50 Corporate Logos Evolve

How Much of a Web Page Do Visitors Really See?

Adobe Releases Final Camera Raw, Lightroom, & DNG Converter Updates

Play the Font Game on the iPhone

This week's podcast: Jeff and Jay share their third and final gift guide installment

Depending on the level of your childhood mall-Santa trauma, the Sketchy Santas site might make you laugh, or you might find yourself curled into a ball, muttering the lyrics to "Jingle Bells" over and over.

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