Google, Find Me Only Red Birds!
I've written before about finding inspiration in Google Images. That's just become even easier, thanks to a new Google Image Search option that lets you restrict the results based on their color.

As you can see in the screenshot above, you can also narrow a Google Images search to return photos, clip art, or line drawings -- even images with faces.

To give it a whirl, go to http://images.google.com/ and click "Advanced Image Search."

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief

How to Choose Color Combinations Everyone Likes
A long time ago, a professor in Switzerland came up with a formula that could predict how most people will react to specific color combinations. As author Igor Asselbergs notes, this formula may not determine the difference between good or bad taste, but it does predict common taste. And that makes the formula quite useful when you're choosing colors.

Related Reading: Do you know what to do when part of your audience may be color-blind?

Scanning Around With Gene: A Bouquet of Album Covers, Part I
Just before parting with his record albums forever, Gene Gableis taking one last look at his collection 's most memorable cover designs. Check out Gene's albums, then scan favorite covers of your own and email the scans (between 450 and 1,200 pixels wide, please) to gene@creativepro.com. He'll choose one submission at random and give that winner a custom-tailored collection of Scanning Around with Gene material!

Related Reading: Gene's record collection is not only wide -- it's deep, too. Proof positive is this column devoted solely to his polka albums.

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Smart Object Photo Template
Lesa King's tutorials are always a treat: easy to follow and funny. In this how-to, you'll learn how to make a smart object that converts a color image to black and white, gives it a sepia tint, and adds a vignette. But the best part is that you can use what you've learned again and again to create limitless smart effects for any image.

Related Reading: This is another winner from Lesa.

TypeTalk: When to Custom-Kern
Between some letters in some typefaces, there's a space that's just a little too big. If you're reading TypeTalk, that visual hole probably bugs you. Ilene Strizver shows you how and when to patch the hole.

Related Reading: You love type and you love your iPhone? You must have KERN.

Voices In Your Head
Imagine listening to two nice guys. Now imagine those nice guys telling you about important industry news and sharing cool tips. Now imagine that you're not imagining it. The result: This week's installment of Jay J. Nelson's and Jeff Gamet's podcast.

Related Reading: One resource the guys mention is Adobe's free Everyday Timesavers videos. Click here to watch those videos.

New Canon Rebel T1i Records HD Video, Captures 15.1 Megapixel Stills

Wacom Intuos4 Tablet Now Available

New LaCie Monitor Calibrator and Profiler

Just for Fun: Stop-Motion Photoshop

Adobe Introduces Director 11.5

CreativePro.com Poll: Are business cards obsolete?

Revel in EepyBird's extreme sticky note experiments.

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