Twenty Years Is a Long Time
Adobe released Photoshop 1.0 20 years ago. Today, the image-editing program is so ubiquitous that its name is used as a verb. Most of you reading these words would be lost without it -- I would be!

So let's raise a virtual glass to Photoshop and celebrate its history by sharing when you first used the application and what you did with it. Walk down memory lane here.

Terri Stone - Editor in Chief

Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 1
The @font-face rule is the secret sauce of modern Web typography. Use it and you'll never be stuck with that limited set of "Web safe" fonts again! In part 1, Dave Sawyer McFarland explains how you can easily implement @font-face using Web font hosting services.

Scanning Around With Gene: Visiting Sunny Southern California
Gene Gable found and scanned a packet of tourist attraction materials that his southern California family gave to visitors in the early 1960s. As you'll see, things have changed considerably.

Related Reading: Here's another installment of SAWG that will make you long for summer.

Just Say "No" to Automatic Leading
Sometimes automatic is very, very good. But sometimes it's bad news. For the typographically aware, automatic leading is a pain in the neck. For instance, the sample below uses negative leading; automatic leading would have ruined the effect.

Related Reading: James Felici is a font of font fact.

Easily Enhance Photos
Russell Brown demonstrates how the free Camera Raw Photoshop plug-in gives you the power to improve photos beyond your wildest dreams without giving up the flexibility of the original file format.

Design As Child's Play
People all over the world love the characters created by Sesame Workshop: Big Bird, Grover, Elmo, Boombah (in India), Putri (in Indonesia)... But very few think about the design behind the Muppets. That's why it's time for David Blatner's show and tell!

Canon EOS Rebel T2i SLR Debuts

Photoshop Detail Enhancement Plug-in Upgraded

Join the Haiti Poster Project

New Way to Organize Fonts with TypeBook Creator 2.4

Get the Best Web Images Out of Photoshop

The author of this blog ruthlessly critiques album art from independent musicians.

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