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Fun, Functional, and Free
The other day, a friend sent me one of those "Check out this fun Web site!" messages. The site is called Wet Paint Please Touch,
and yes, it is fun. The simple interface consists of a blank wall, a bucket of virtual paint, and tools like thick and thin paint brushes
with which you cover the wall. I enjoyed playing around and viewing other people's graffiti in the gallery.
Then I started wondering. Who's behind this site? What is its purpose? Why are there no ads? After a bit of research, I found out that
Wetpaint is a Seattle-based company and a catchall name for
a way to build wikis. (A wiki is different from traditional Web sites in that anyone can add and edit the wiki's content.) Wetpaint is supposedly much
easier to use than most wikis and more flexible, since Wetpaint-powered sites can also have aspects of blogs, forums, and social networks. Wet Paint
Please Touch doesn't have ads because it is an ad for the company and the technology.
Some big players are incorporating Wetpaint wikis into their Web presence: American Express Publishing, ABC, CBS, magazine publisher Meredith,
and others. But what excites me is that deep pockets and a large staff are not required. There's no charge to build Wetpaint sites. Should you
only want to dabble in the technology, you can do that at a companion site, WikiSandbox. I know I'm going
to. If you try it, let me know.
— Terri Stone, editor in chief
Learn Photoshop from the Best
In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, Deke McClelland demonstrates the best ways to convert
a color image to black and white in Photoshop CS2 and CS3.
"In a world that is saturated with color, there is something about the elegant simplicity of black-and-white imagery
that gets right to the heart of things. The removal of color allows our eyes and minds to focus on subtleties of shadow
and shape in a way that's different from our everyday visual experience."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25764.html
See what Deke has to say on Photoshop color:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/24515.html
No Bleed? No Problem!
When you're forced to work with artwork that's missing a required bleed allowance, don't despair. Anne-Marie
Concepcion explains how to fake that bleed in Illustrator and Photoshop.
"You don't want to scale it up in the program, just increase its dimensions — its own page size — slightly.
Then you'll add art elements to the additional area. Your handiwork will likely never see the light of day
because it will be outside the live page area, in the bleed allowance. But now when the paper shifts slightly
on press and some of this overlapping artwork lands in the 'live' area, no one will see blank paper."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25773.html
Do you know how to add bleed and crop marks?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/21661.html
Beat the Blue Light Specials
Eric J. Adams understands how tough it is to compete in an industry where your bids are being undercut constantly.
In this installment of the Art of Business, he coaches you on competing without going into the red.
"Are you creating a brochure or helping a client solve a customer relations problem? Are you designing a Web site
or helping a client define its corporate identity? Are you whipping together a package design or helping a client
regain market share? Clients will pay more for the latter than the former, and rightly so. Wouldn't you pay more
to solve a nagging customer relations problem than for a simple brochure design?"
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25753.html
Pricing is a complex topic. Luckily, Eric has plenty to say about it:
http://www.creativepro.com/author/home/218.html
Brouhaha in a Button
Have you been following the story about the "send to FedEx Kinkos" button in Adobe Acrobat 8.1? If you missed
this storm, which has been brewing over the last few months, catch up by reading these reports:
"Adobe Backs Down"
"Why the Adobe/FedEx-Kinkos Deal is the Best Thing that Could Happen to the Printing Industry"
Age Gracefully: Part 1
Nothing can conjure a certain mood like a hand-tinted photograph with the soft scratches and spots that come with age.
Unless you have the time to paw through every photo bin in an antiques store to find just the right image, try this
Photoshop tutorial on creating a vintage look.
"Next, give everything a warm, aged tone by adding a new adjustment layer. This time choose Photo Filter from the
Adjustment Layer menu and select Warm Filter 85 from the filter's drop down menu. Change the Layer opacity to 60% (Figure 9)."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25148.html
For many more graphics tutorials, see our Graphics department:
http://www.creativepro.com/category/home/227.html
Rearview Mirror: 20-20 Hindsight
Quark releases QuarkXPress 7.3 updater
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25769.html
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Check out ArtRage 2.5: A natural paint and drawing application
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25759.html
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SciFusion Software announces the release of StopRedEye
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25768.html
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Axaio Software releases MadeToPrint for Adobe InDesign CS3
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25758.html
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Xerox unveils first-of-its-kind paper that uses fewer trees
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25751.html
Wacky Web Site of the Week
50 Reasons Why People Buy: Brainstorming tool
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23661.html
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