Love Design Month * Photoshop Madness for Lovers * Photoshop (Valentine) Madness * Photoshop: Love Blending Modes * Love Design: Love Vector Art * Who loves ‘ya? * Coming in MARCH : Designing Women * February: In search of Martin Luther King Jr. * Photoshop: Automating a Multistep Tasks * Creative Tidbits: February * 25-Grand for a new recycle icon * How to SELL your ideas * 110213″>The Myths of Innovation * Marketing Update 1101-24 * Signature Capture for Filemaker * Your Next Computer Will Be Virtual * iPads and iPhones in the Enterprise … and much more
DTG Newsletter ~ Vol. 21, #02 ~ February, 2011
- Love Design Month
- Photoshop Madness for Lovers
- Photoshop (Valentine) Madness
- Photoshop: Love Blending Modes
- Love Design: Love Vector Art
- Who loves ‘ya?
- Coming in MARCH : Designing Women
- February: In search of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Photoshop: Automating a Multistep Tasks
- Creative Tidbits: February
- 25-Grand for a new recycle icon
- How to SELL your ideas
- The Myths of Innovation
- Marketing Update 1101-24
- Signature Capture for Filemaker
- Your Next Computer Will Be Virtual
- iPads and iPhones in the Enterprise
- Welcome to the 21st February
- Editor’s Notes
Love Design Month
Welcome to February. Have a little fun this year with our Lovers and Valentine’s Photoshop projects, and we have a whole new collection of superb vector art, including lots of samples you can download.
Welcome to all our new subscribers, friends and partners this month. It’s always wonderful to see our numbers continuing to grow, and more people in the graphic design field getting benefit from your Design & Publishing Center!
Celebrate Valentine’s Day and do something special for someone you love. Or, for someone else. Or, for multiple people. Here’s a hug and a kiss from us… because we love you all.
Photoshop Madness for Lovers
Grab some of this madness, and create a colorful gift for your lover. It won’t take long, and it will cost you nothing other than your time and the color print … !!! This Madness includes: * Colorful striped text * Sweet, Chocolate typography script * Amazing Animated Glitter Text * Create A Powerful Solid Text Effect * The Golden Heart-Shaped Box * Make a Colorful Postcard in Photoshop Elements * Happy Valentine’s Day Text * Type reflected on black background * Fill text characters with images in Elements … This is part of a continuing series of Text Effect Madness!
Photoshop (Valentine) Madness
Yes, Valentine! Valentine’s is a great theme to jolt your clients out of their winter doldrums. Here, we’ve found ten great finds for the Valentines season. * Valentine Hearts shapes * 3D Valentine’s Day Typography * Age Progression tutorial * colorful background for Valentine’s Day * Basic editing tutorial in Adobe Photoshop * Valentine’s day post card * colorizing hair * smoothing skin … and more! Enjoy.
Photoshop: Love Blending Modes
Michael Szczepanski of PantherSweat.com brings us this thoughtful tutorial on enhancing photos using Photoshop’s blending modes. He explains his favorite technique for getting that grungy look on his images. getting that grungy look on his images.
Love Design: Love Vector Art
Most of you know by now that we love the DOVER collection of ready-to-use-art, and pictorial archives. If you frequent the Publishers’ Warehouse loading dock, you’ve probably already seen some of the hundreds of full-page, downloadable samples we’ve stashed there. So, in celebration of our “Love Design” month, I’ve got an extra special treat for you — vector files.
Who loves ‘ya?
Answer: all those who make the Graphic Design & Publishing Center possible :: your sponsors. For 21 Februaries we’ve brought you reviews, news, views and muse online — and think about it — you haven’t paid a dime. That’s because there are super upstanding members of the design community who are committed to bringing you DTG for the past 252 months! This month we applaud
* Logo Design Team : Julia Raven and the whole Logo team of more than 100, full time, in-house team members have put their heart and soul into making your business a success! They’ve got some innovative ideas about logo design. You can tap that resource at www.LogoDesignTeam.com
* PS Print : Out in sunny Oakland California you’ll find these supporters of your design center. In terms of online printing, they keep the prices low enough for you to broker print jobs, yet adhere to a single mantra : Better Printing ~ Better Service. You’ll find their site is fully outfitted and easy to use! Give’em a call. Tell’em Fred sent you : www.psprint.com/
Please visit all our partners and friends because they support your Design Center! Take advantage of all they have to offer, and tell them DTG sent you!
Coming in MARCH : Designing Women
Calling all Designing Women … Each year we feature the works of outstanding women in the design, illustration, photography, typography and publishing fields in honor of Women’s History Month. If you are a woman in the visual arts and communications fields, this is your invitation to participate or nominate your favorite designing woman.
February: In search of Martin Luther King Jr.
Each year, we like to focus on achievements in the visual communications world in celebration of Black History Month. This year we’re taking a little different approach in a quest to find creative expressions of Martin Luther King Jr. We’ve also updated the whole series of pages about Black designers and artists in the world
Photoshop: Automating a Multistep Tasks
For all those wishing to learn automation, here’s your gig. Thanks to Peachpit for sending this and allowing us to publish it here for you Photoshop: Automating a Multistep Tasks
Creative Tidbits: February
this time let’s look at some fun items in the visual communications world, including another look at Comic Sans! OH NO! But there’s some other really good stuff too … ten fresh idea-starters in all!
25-Grand for a new recycle icon
“Make Your Mark,” is a nationwide design competition for a symbol that represents “bioplastics” creator of the recycling symbol, Gary Anderson will be among the judges — the Designer of the winning symbol will receive $25,000. 25-Grand for a new recycle icon
How to SELL your ideas
They say nothing happens until a sale is made. I think that’s true. After all, no matter how good your design, idea or concept is, it will never get off the ground until someone buys it. Here’s the way to effectively sell your ideas
The Myths of Innovation
Think you’ve got an idea? Think it’s a good one? Think again. This is quite possibly the best book of the decade for creative thinkers — here’s the bottom line on innovation. Selected as one of DTG’s BEST BOOKS of 2010
Marketing Update 1101-24
Signature Capture for Filemaker
Most designers don’t know that Filemaker can be the designer’s best friend. I’ve used it since the late 1980s — couldn’t do without it! Now you can make capturing a signature part of your custom FileMaker Go workflow. Imagine having your customers sign on the dotted line when the accept a package, or agree to a quote. Signature Capture for Filemaker
Your Next Computer Will Be Virtual
Imagine a relatively inexpensive, light, thin-client device that accesses your data center from anywhere. Is this a dream? We’ve seen examples of this in science fiction for years. Well, folks, it’s just around the corner!
iPads and iPhones in the Enterprise
So you think business is still dominated by the almighty PC? Think again. iPads and all kinds of other devices are now being embraced by business at an amazing pace . . . here’s what you need to know
Welcome to the 21st February
… sharing design, typography and graphics in the pages of DTG online!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- MARCH: Designing Women – this will be our 16th annual tribute to women in the visual arts. If you’re a woman in design, and would like DTG readers to visit your studio or portfolio, just let us know.
- APRIL & MAY: Spring Color – our annual look at colors and color trends. Join the fun and suggest your color favorites.
- JUNE: Digital Summer – once warm weather hits we’ll be on the road with the digital lifestyle — including some real fun with your digital cameras, you iPad and other mobile devices.
February is brought to you by the letter “F” February is brought to you by the color Purple
PUBLISHERS’ WAREHOUSE: In this month’s Loading Dock download section, you’ll find a ton of new clip art samples, and a Valentine’s surf you’ll enjoy. Next week they will be uploading over 100 samples and vector files from our “Love Vectors” article this month. You don’t want to miss that, and you know where to look!
If you haven’t hugged someone recently… if you haven’t said “I Love You” recently, get out there and make some calls. You’ll be rewarded over and over again.
Once again you’ve wasted a perfectly good hour reading the DTG newsletter. Hopefully all is not wasted and you’ve gained at least one helpful tidbit of info —
Fred Showker
Editor / Publisher, DT&G Magazine
CLOSING THOUGHT:
“Man will do many things to get himself loved;
he will do all things to get himself envied.”
Mark Twain
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