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Editor's Corner: How Smart Are Hue?

X-Rite has created a fun online app that lets you test your color acumen.

Can you arrange the colored shapes in the correct hue order?


Try it!

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief


P.S. If you were more tuned into politics or cash crises than creative industry buzz last week, you may have missed our coverage of Adobe’s CS4 new apps. Read it all, including our first looks at those apps, at www.creativepro.com/article/info-center-adobe-creative-suite-4.

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Tug and Twirl Text

Thanks to Chad Neuman’s easy-to-follow techniques, you’ll soon be using Illustrator to change letters’ sizes, positions, and colors, and even to push and pull letters in wild new directions


Related Reading: This look at the Ayres Royal font may inspire you to get all swashy on your own letters.

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CreativePro Book of the Week


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers Only, by Rob Sheppard

Scanning Around With Gene: In Debates, the Tie Makes the Man

Presidential debates are one of the few remaining places where neckties are not considered optional for men. Gene Gable wonders: Does the choice of tie say anything about a candidate?


Related Reading: Gene wrote another expose on the relationship between a manly characteristic and politics.

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CreativePro Printing Center


Postcards, Brochures, Business Cards, and more!

TypeTalk: A Unplumbed Depths

Are you looking for one particular character in a font that has thousands? Ilene Strizver says that a little-known feature of the glyph palette is here to help.


Related Reading: Bookmark this column if you often need to type the same special characters.

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CreativePro Training Resources


Free Online Training. Take a Tour Today!

Get Creative Video: News for the Week of September 29, 2008

Shellie Hall’s final Get Creative videocast for CreativePro.com covers additional sources for CS4 info, and recent big news from QuarkXPress. Be on the lookout for our new podcast next week!


Related Reading: Have you wondered what it takes to create a video podcast? Shellie tells you how.

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CreativePro Trade Publications


FREE subscription to Streaming Media Magazine!

Shoot Small

Photographer Mason Resnick says that if you eliminate the variables, you'll end up with great macro shots


Related Reading: Have you subscribed to our Photography How-to RSS feed?

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CreativePro Pantone Store


Pantone Matching System - Solid Color

News from the Past Week

Quark Introduces Quark Publishing System 8, QuarkCopyDesk 8, and QuarkXPress Server 8
http://www.creativepro.com/article/quark-introduces-quark-publishing-system-8-quarkcopydesk-8-and-quarkxpress-server-8

Lensbaby Introduces New Line of Specialty Lenses
http://www.creativepro.com/article/lensbaby-introduces-new-line

Expression Blend Takes Advantage of Latest Technology
http://www.creativepro.com/article/expression-blend-takes-advantage-latest-technology

Enfocus Releases Instant PDF 08
http://www.creativepro.com/article/enfocus-releases-instant-pdf-08

Canon to Offer New Levels of Service to Pro Photographers
http://www.creativepro.com/article/canon-offer-new-levels-service-pro-photographers

CreativePro.com Poll of the Week: How important are visuals in your favorite podcasts?
http://www.creativepro.com/node/63324

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CreativePro Creative Diversion


Supposedly, we work better after a quick exercise break. So surely no one will object to you having one of these in your office?

Wacky Web Site of the Week

Steven Woodward has created 37 traffic signs of unexpected content and charm.

http://www.creativepro.com/article/creativeprose-wacky-web-site-week-archive

September 30, 2008
Volume 9 Issue 40
Editor's Corner:
How Smart Are Hue?
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Tug and Twirl Text
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Scanning Around With Gene: The Tie Makes the Man
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TypeTalk: Unplumbed Depths
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Shoot Small
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Get Creative Video: News for the Week of September 29, 2008
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News from the Past Week

The Seminar for Creatives Serious About Color
Learn the Rules, Get the Tools, Own Your Color. 10 cities Oct-Dec.
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PhotoSpin...Millions of Possibilities, Unlimited High Res Downloads.
All For Under $1.00 Per Day!

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division
Learn from the leader in online creative arts education. 14 programs available.
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ReArranger InDesign Plug-In

HP Workstations bring ideas to life for Orange County Choppers.
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THE CREATIVE SUITE CONFERENCE
Orlando, Florida
October 13-15, 2008
For $75 off your Conference Pass, use Discount code: CPTTOWCS08
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