7 Questions. 3 Minutes. $2K in Prizes.
Three weeks ago, I told you about our current contest, the Designer's Dream Giveaway. Because the June 29 deadline is coming up, I wanted to remind you of how easy it is to enter.

To qualify, a project must use at least one PANTONE tool. That's it. If you've designed something using one of their spot colors, for example, you're golden! To enter, you fill out seven questions: your name, email address, project client name... Really difficult stuff. Then click the Submit button, email your project file to me, and you're done!

We can accept submissions up to 11:59 Pacific time on Monday, June 29. Shortly thereafter, we'll decide who gets the prize package of one PANTONE Reference Library, one ColorMunki Design, and one GoeBridge.

Scanning Around With Gene: Adequate Males Watching Blue Movies Together
Before pornographic movies were on multiple cable channels, they were reserved for special occasions like bachelor parties, and they came in the form of "stag" films. Beware: While these stag film ads from men's magazines of the 1950s and '60s are safe for work, you may get in trouble for laughing loudly as you view them.

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!

Clipping Drop Shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Mordy Golding shows you how to create an object with both a transparent fill and a drop shadow in three major software programs.

Related Reading: Mordy ran into this issue while working on this other article.

TypeTalk: Change Word's Default Font
It's not hard to change Microsoft Word's default font once Ilene Strizver tells you where to look.

Related Reading: Have you ever had to wrestle with this problem?

Create Star Wars Scrolling Text in Flash
Flash CS4 Professional has two new 3D tools that open up all kinds of skewing and perspective possibilities. For example, you can do a George Lucas and mimic the scrolling yellow text that begins the Star Wars movies -- no multi-million-dollar budget necessary. Jeremy Schultz explains.

Related Reading: Did you know you can combine Acrobat and Flash?

Still Camera + HD Video + Stereo Audio = Olympus E-P1

Get the New AIGA/Aquent Salary Survey

Big Shake-Up at Acrobat.com

What to Charge? Project Pricing Versus Hourly Rates

New dekePod: Photoshop and the Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect

This week's podcast: News on online image searching, social marketing, and PDF security. Plus tips on Creative Suite and QuarkXPress.

CreativePro.com Poll: How important is it that your next digital camera (SLR or point-and-shoot) also capture HD video?

Make a Lava Lite out of a few common household materials. You know you want to.

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