Find Legally Free Images Online
It just got a little easier to keep yourself honest online.

By checking a few boxes in the "Usage rights" section of Google's Advanced Image Search page, you can now tell Google to show only files tagged with a license that allows re-use of the image. You can even narrow the search to see only images you can use commercially, or -- my favorite -- images you can modify and then use for commercial purposes.

The search engine recognizes images in the public domain and those tagged with Creative Commons and GNU Free Documentation licenses.

You'll have to verify the license's accuracy, of course, and follow the license restrictions; for example, some Creative Commons licenses state that you include artist attribution. But it's still a heck of a lot better than the wide-open image search that was the norm before this improvement.

For more information, read "Safely Find and Use Images Via Google."

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief

Review: Tiffen Dfx Suite Version 2
Ben Long says that this suite of more than 1,000 truly useful image-editing filters is an excellent buy for photographers of landscapes, events, portraits, and weddings. However, there are three versions: one standalone, and two plug-ins to other software. Which one should you get, and why?

Before Ben applied one of the Dfx filters, this headshot had a dull, flat background.

Master Templates in Dreamweaver, Part II
Do you think that building a site with templates will lead to something that looks exactly the same on every page? Never fear! In part two of this three-part series, Dave Sawyer McFarland demonstrates how CSS magic and a little-known Dreamweaver template feature help you build visually unique pages using just one Dreamweaver template.

TypeTalk: Keep Words Together
Nonbreaking spaces prevent titles, headlines, and names from splitting at the end of a line. Ilene Strizver shows you how to insert nonbreaking spaces in the two most popular page-layout apps.

Quark calls a nonbreaking space a Word Joiner:

Related Reading: Sometimes you may not want a nonbreaking space, but a discretionary hyphen.

Scanning Around With Gene: Mexican Flea Market Art
Gene Gable went to a flea market and brought home unexpectedly rich imagery from a booth that also sold black-velvet Elvis paintings.

Look close and you'll realize that this image is not what it seems:

Related Reading: Flea markets are a rich source for Gene, as this past column proves.

And the Winner of the Designer's Dream Giveaway Is...
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Designer's Dream Giveaway contest. The results were impressively varied, but we were finally able to agree on the winner. You'll have to click through to the article to find out which entry won the PANTONE prizes!

Related Reading: Did you miss previous news on the contest and want to know what it was about?

Microsoft Releases Silverlight 3 and Expression 3

Conference: When Still and Motion Photography Collide

Five New Printers from Canon

New InDesign Plug-In: CtrlLayers

New Version Control Software for Photoshop

CreativePro.com Poll: Would you rather be self-employed or work for someone else?

The warning at the top of this how-to for making a jet-powered beer cooler says that it's very dangerous. Like you would let that stop you.

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