Help for Digital Photographers
Anyone with a digital camera knows that it doesn't take long to amass a mountain of image files. While you can just dump them all in one big folder on a hard drive, that's asking for heartache. Not only is it hard to lay your hands on specific photos, but unless you back up regularly, you could lose every one of those images if the drive fails.

A new initiative, called "dpBestflow.org" (for "digital photography best practices workflow"), has answers. It's funded by the Library of Congress and promoted by the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). The Web site's valuable advice, based on two years' worth of research, includes a quick reference guide and a thorough best practices section with lots of videos.Check it out!

Easy Fixes for Microsoft Word Formatting in InDesign
Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion has found two free and easy-to-use scripts that convert Word's local formatting to InDesign's character styles. Two more retain InDesign formatting when you export text formatted with automatically applied character styles.

Scanning Around With Gene: The Miracle of Photochrom
Before the invention of color photography, there were several methods to add color to black and white photographs. None were more successful than the Swiss Photochrom process, and Gene Gable has compiled a stunning collection of examples.

The same image after the Photochrom process:

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2
James Felici delivers everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.

TypeTalk: Distorting Type
Are you tempted to stretch or squeeze letters, perhaps to make a headline or subhead fit better? Ilene Strizver explains why that's not such a wise idea.

It's Play Time!
"Play?!" you ask, incredulously. "How can I play when the world's coming down around my ears?" You can because you must. Playing is good for you! While it's sometimes necessary to put your nose to the grindstone, the magic happens when you just let go. Here's how Colleen Wainwright does it.

New podcast: Snow Leopard good news and bad news; camera card RAW support; handy tips

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 Now Windows 7-Compatible

New Coroflot Designer Salary Survey Available

Use Real Fonts on Web Sites

New Guide Helps You Become Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign

Recently discovered diaries of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre reveal a man obsessed not with the void, but with food. Read excerpts here.

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