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60 Seconds... Fred tracks the illusive spammer...
__ Top Ten Signs You're About to be RIPPED OFF


Spring (fonts) have sprung ...
___ Great Fonts for a friendly springtime look


Photoshop Book Round-Up what's hot today!


Handwriting Fonts! perfect for spring
___ for a human touch

April Reader Web Site Submissions...
__ * Asyart, an online print framing company; * The Glass Menagerie site to promote a College play; * Uomini Nuovi, exploring the use of portraits in digital arts; * Baltimore's and Washington's B'nai Mitzvah;
* Clear Creek Rafting, outdoor adventures * Dazed & Confused, the London arts magazine; * Digitalmove, office supplies and appliances; * Historical Artifact's of Etech Stone Tiles; * lovelines, a dating link site
Simply Aromatics, aromatherapy shop;
* Caritas Shatin M.F. Secondary School, in Hong Kong ...
and two dozen others... all submitted by peer readers, to get YOUR opinion! Give'em a read.


Easy Photoshop Books with Dr. Waldron


DT&G: April 2001
PDF EDITION
* &Editor - - - April cool stuff, Thomas Jefferson,
News & Review: Designing Women,
Designing Women: Meet Heather Bellanca
Technique: Using NOISE in Photo Retouching
Technique: Transparent GIFs over Pattern Backgrounds!
Letters@: * Feathering in Quark. * Blurring Edges in PS
&TYPE: Spring Font Fun... cool new fonts!
* Prizes for your Shareware ideas: - YUM!
* Zen of the Pen: Become a pen-vectoring master with Sharon Steuer's Universal Zen of the Pen Off-Line Seminar
DOWNLOAD IT AND ENJOY IT.


&Else -- updated March 30 for April 1
* Dangerous New Linux Worm * MSPs: IT's New Baby Sitter * Bryce Workshop with Susan Kitchens * New Color Solution for QuarkXPress Users * Opera Web Browser Now Has Ultimate Guide * New Image Grabber, Viewer, Editor for Windows * Do you suffer from Mouse injuries? * Get better security with LockOut (Mac) * Apple firms up firmware (complete with download links!) * Are you ready for a Corrugated Box Dieline Generator, for graphic designers?
__ Each month a new batch of interesting or beneficial items that have crossed our desk. (Feb 7, Jan 5, Feb 15 editions)


Publishers' Warehouse MORE NEW FONTS !


&FOTOgraphic... Doug shares his three rules for
__ Improving your Digital Photos



Feature: In this Web Design & Review we visit two gallerys with very different kinds of art. Each have their unique problems... one is difficult because of the art, and one is difficult because of the site.
* Urban Photos: great stuff, once you get to it
* Chetkin Gallery: lovely stuff, poorly presented
* Review a Reader Web Site
* Reader Reviews for January

Feature: Joyce does Photoshop Tutorials
__ * Photoshop Spot Color Channels
__ * Building Spot Colors with Percentages
__ * Trapping in Photoshop
Review: Photoshop Retouching Seminar

Dr. D'Lynn Waldron:
* Using Desktop Pictures for Promotion (Mac)

Book Reviews with Joyce Evans
__ * Designing Web Usability - Jakob Nielson
__ * Flash Web Design: The Art of Motion Graphics



Photoshop Retouching Seminar
___ The First of our "Off-Line Seminars" taking advanced orders


This could be YOUR FOLIO banner ad!
__ What's your image worth? (*) The Top Ten Excuses
__ for NOT getting a Graphic Design Network FOLIO page


WIN any of this month's Editor's Choice Products...
Will we pick your name from the hat? Will you win a prize valued at as much as $100? Not if you don't sign the Guest Book... http://www.graphic-design.com/Creative-Net/DPGuest.html

Editor's Choice
April
Read Me First
(Message from the Editor)
&Else!



60-Second Windows
The Top Ten Signs
You're About to be
RIPPED OFF


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&FOTOgraphic
Improving you
Digital Photos


LETTERS@Graphic-Design


Goodies & Freebies
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