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A Whole Lotta Apps to Ogle
You may not have one Adobe product, or you may own a dozen. Regardless, today's
avalanche of product announcements from the Big A is important to you. With its
mammoth presence in the creative software market, what Adobe does influences the
entire industry, including how you work.
To help you get a bead on where Adobe and its products are headed, I've written
overviews of five of the most popular of the new Creative Suite 3 applications:
Note that these are not reviews — those will come next month after the
review authors have had a chance to play with final code. For general information
on ship dates, platforms, and exactly what apps are in each of the many versions
of the Creative Suite 3, see "What's New in Adobe Creative Suite 3".
— Terri Stone, editor in chief
Thank You for Playing
Last week, we ran a contest as part of the
article "If You Can Read This, You're Hired" in
which we challenged you to translate three wants ads set entirely in dingbat fonts. The response was
great, and we apologize to all of you who got in trouble for squinting at symbols instead of finishing
that important job.
To see the translations for the want ads and the list of winners, go to A Mystery Revealed.
dot-font: Tables of Contents
The table of contents is the primary access point to what's in a publication.
If you rush through it, you're missing a miniature exercise in information design.
"Even when the rest of a book is laid out in symmetrical text blocks, there's no need
to treat the table of contents the same way. By its nature, the information on the contents
page is different from the rest of the book. It's more like movie credits than a book page."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25305.html
Read more by John Berry here:
http://www.creativepro.com/author/home/951.html
Photoshop Color Plug-In Review
If you can grasp its complexity, the HVC Color Composer plug-in for Photoshop adds an intuitive
color selection tool that could save you time and give you unforeseen creative options.
"You can generate palettes with a seemingly endless selection of colors, and an amazing range of
values within those colors. Just note that when not constrained by its Accuracy and Depth controls,
the palettes can create too many possibilities. I find it's easier to make a palette with only (only!)
a few hundred colors, and then work with that."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/review/25316.html
Keep up-to-date with Photoshop happenings here:
http://www.creativepro.com/software/home/57.html
Illustrator Q's and A's
Whether you want to snap to guides accurately, or anti-alias only
one of many objects in your document, we've got your answers.
"The anti-aliased artwork setting in Preferences applies only to
how Illustrator displays graphic on your artboard in Preview mode.
It doesn't affect how graphics are exported in Save for Web (or any
other method). Theoretically, you could disable anti-aliasing and
take a screenshot of your artboard in Illustrator and then open
the screenshot in Photoshop... but that would only be a useful method
when you're being paid by the hour. However, there is a way to turn
off anti-aliasing on a per-object basis."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25321.html
Get more indepth information on Illustrator here:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/23184.html
Rearview Mirror: 20-20 Hindsight
Check out Markzware's public Beta of Flightcheck 6
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25317.html
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Strut your stuff in HOW's inHOWSE design contest
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25314.html
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Don't miss StockLayouts newest design templates
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25301.html
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Did you know there is a documentary film on Helvetica?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25311.html
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Extensis releases an update for Portfolio 8
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25299.html
Wacky Web Site of the Week
File Swap: Interesting give and take proposition
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23661.html
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