I recently got a comment that people no longer buy books because they can get it all online. Well, that may be true for some things -- but NOT Illustrator! Sure, it's easy to run some filters over a photo and become a 'Photoshop Expert' ... but try creating some good art in Illustrator and you see it's a totally different ball game. If you want to kick some butt with Adobe Illustrator, you need the WOW book! October 18, 2012
For years, we've talked about the powers of Artlandia's powerful and fun pattern design software. Now they have launched an awesome new web application for making and sharing repeating patterns -- online! In your browser! It's called Artlandia SymmetryMill, and if you ever use or need patterns in your graphics, you want to try this! October 1, 2012
Novus Scan, an offline plagiarism checker, enables users to build a database of documents and then scan the database, searching for copied text. Users can import documents into its database using drag-and-drop or a file open dialog, import text that they'd like to scan, and Novus Scan compares the text to its document database using a two-step, word-by-word scanning algorithm. September 18, 2012
Infographics 101: Using Pictures to Communicate and Connect With Your Audiences -- explains what infographics are, how they are put together, and how you can use them in your business. August 30, 2012
Your project is only so good as your prepared files. If it's not output correctly, you're dead. Code Line announces a free update to its popular "Collect for Output" application, Art Files 2 for Mac. July 28, 2012
Creativity comes in many different forms. From Universities to Awards to crowdsourcing, the creative world is ever changing, as you'll see in this week's edition of Creative Tidbits July 27, 2012
This excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how to apply transparency by using the nine transparency effects in InDesign. Transparency can be a highly powerful visual device to use in your publications! July 25, 2012
The powers of desktop publishing programs is in their ability to help automate much of the tedium and repetitive tasks associated with DTP. Now, Adobe InDesign CS6 borrows all the best capabilities from RSG, PageMaker, FrameMaker and QuarkExpress to evolve the ultimage publishing platform. In this edition, you'll be learning about and working with paragraph and character styles ... style sheets in InDesign CS6... July 24, 2012
Can creativity be 'learned' ... or is it already in your genes when you're born. The latest research suggests that we use "creativity" as a catchall term for a variety of cognitive tools, each of which applies to different kinds of stimulus as we see in this week's edition of Creative Tidbits July 18, 2012
This issue is all about digital Photography, photos, CS6 and all manner of fun in the sun ... grab your best and then share your creations with DTG readers and win a prize! C'mon in and enjoy July DTG . . .
02 HDR: The Pros' Hottest Post-Processing Techniques
03 Photoshop Seascape Madness
04 Tutorial: Illustrator vector cupcakes and muffins!
05 Tutorial: Two Simple Steps Can Save Your Photos
06 Tutorial: Blurred reflections in Photoshop
07 Social Media getting hotter and hotter
08 CREATIVE inspiration tidbits
09 Marketing Update : turn up the heat
10 Publishing Update : Smart Publishers
11 Tutorial: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
12 60 seconds: Death of the search engine
13 QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS6
14 Business: The Art of Saying No
15 Design Bookshelf Updates
16 ADOBE CS6 Rolls into the Publishers Warehouse
17 The Affiliate Myth
18 Red, White & Blue Colors this Month
19 Hot, Hot, Hot July 1, 2012
