One Heckuva Contest This Week
If you scroll down toward the bottom of all of our newsletters, you'll come across the contest. Although I rarely comment on them, this week's prize is so sweet that I couldn't resist: a medium-sized Intuos4 tablet from Wacom. Is it not a thing of beauty?

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief

Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!
In this month's Free for All column, Pariah Burke unearths goodies for type lovers; business owners; designers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; and anyone who wants to compress the heck out of online images.

Related Reading: Pariah has covered everything from Acrobat forms to Web site fonts. Peruse his archives here.

View Source: Designing and Testing Sites for Internet Explorer 8
IE8 is faster and better, but if you’re not careful, the new browser version may ignore all of its fancy CSS and JavaScript improvements and revert to displaying pages like IE7 or even IE5. Luckily, Dave Sawyer McFarland knows how to outsmart IE8 when you're designing Web sites.

Related Reading: When you want to test for Web standards adherence, you need this.

Scanning Around With Gene: Winning Album Covers from You!
As a fitting end to his series on album covers, Gene Gable now shares some of the scans sent in by readers. As you can see from the sample below, they run the gamut from spicy to silly.

Related Reading: While scouring CreativePro.com for related articles, I came across a Web design how-to from the dawn of time (i.e., 2000). Can you spot the connection between it and Scanning Around with Gene?

TypeTalk: Greeking Out
Is it a good idea to use dummy text in a layout? If you say yes, find out how easy that is in the top two page-layout apps.

Related Reading: This article includes an excellent example of when you might want to use greeked text.

Pretty Cool Podcast
Best-selling Photoshop author and speaker Lesa Snider joins regular hosts Jay Nelson and Jeff Gamet to discuss this week's news. That includes Lesa's top Photoshop tips; a free online service that converts PDF files to Microsoft Word documents; and where to go to assess your own skills or those of a potential employee.

Related Reading: Do you often work with PDFs? There's helpful info here.

New Pantone Apps for iPhone and Facebook

Download Free QuarkXPress 7 and 8 Cheat Sheets

Can Design Save Newspapers?

Thirty-Three Inspirational Twitter Backgrounds

Retoucher 3.5 Promises New Life for Old, Damaged Photos

CreativePro.com Poll: Is graphic design commercial art or fine art?

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