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All I Can Say Is, Woah
You know how a new version of a software program comes out, and all the Web sites and magazines and bloggers gush about the
amazing new features, and you think, "That's great, but there's no way I can afford an upgrade this year, so I'll just sit
here grumbling in Outdated Software Hell"?
Time to turn those tables and go to a Web site called rsizer where you can right now, for free, scale images
in a way that blows away the current Photoshop, CS3. And since Adobe has already hired one (or more) of the brains behind the
technology, I bet you dollars-to-donuts you'll see it in a future version of Photoshop. But don't wait for that upgrade — go to
the site, upload a photo, and wait for your eyes to pop.
— Terri Stone, editor in chief
Is This the Party to Whom I am Speaking?
Gene Gable has outdone himself in this installment, a graphical overview of the telephone.
If you don't snort with laughter at least once, I suggest speaking to a medical professional.
"This picture from 1966 shows six sisters who worked for Pacific Bell Telephone. According to
the accompanying text, 'the girls, six of 14 children, live at home. Each weekday morning they
pile into Eunice's (the oldest) compact car and drive to the office.' There is no reference to
whether the sisters also share the same hairdresser."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25995.html
You've seen this one, right?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/24265.html
Photoshop How-to: Patch a Broken Wing
Diane Miller uses her own photo of an egret in flight to demonstrate how to extend an image's canvas
size, patch in a similar background, add the missing element from another shot, and make it match.
"I need to do some tonal correction on the wingtip layer. It is slightly underexposed compared to the
Background image, making the sky too dark and the feathers too gray. I'll do this correction with a
Levels adjustment layer that will go above the wingtip pixel layer, but I need to make it affect only
the wingtip layer."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25996.html
Read this if you want to cast a shadow in Photoshop:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/24104.html
Use QuarkXPress Layers to Manage Overlapping Items
Say you want to edit text in a box that's obscured behind other boxes in a busy layout. You keep
clicking on the wrong boxes, accidentally moving items, and generally making a mess. Alistair Dabbs can help you beat that problem.
"Then I group them. Yes, you can group items across more than one layer. When I select the grouped text
boxes using the Item tool, Figure 5 shows how they appear in the Layers palette."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25986.html
If you use QPS, you should know about this:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25984.html
Software and Services You'd Pay For — But They're Free!
The rsizr Web site isn't the only free-but-awesome thing worth checking out. Anne-Marie Concepcion has the word
on many other services and software programs that don't cost a thing.
"Free Conference Calls: I took the FreeConferenceCall.com plunge a couple years ago when my three-way calling
was one line short for a critical phone meeting. I used a temporary e-mail address to get my number, thinking
that I would be inundated with spam. But that hasn't happened. I've used my FreeConferenceCall.com number many
times since then with clients and family members, and they haven't been victims of a slew of telephone solicitations (my other fear), either."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25369.html
More bargains from Anne-Marie:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/24088.html
No More Printing Problems
Claudia McCue is the Mary Poppins of print production — her humor is the sugar that makes the medicine of building
files go down. Follow her tips on trimming and folding and save money and time.
"There's a lot of colorful language in printing, and much of it has to do with the arts of trimming, folding, and
binding: creep, dummy, bleed, guillotine, jogging, nipping, perfect, shingle, twist, punch, bust... (I believe some
of these were also dance crazes in the 1960s)."
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25388.html
I heartily recommend Claudia's book:
http://www.amazon.com/0321410181/creativeprocom/
Rearview Mirror: 20-20 Hindsight
The Industry Measure Releases its latest survey of internet design and development companies
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25997.html
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Check out Ben Long's new Photoshop Action Pack
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25981.html
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Have you visited P***t Quark yet?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25982.html
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New version of WebAssist's DataAssist simplifies database-driven Website creation for Dreamweaver users
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25988.html
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Digital Anarchy announces Knoll Light Factory 3.0 for Photoshop
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25992.html
Wacky Web Site of the Week
Get from here to there in style
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23661.html
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