 MAY is brought to you by the color Burgundy
(note how it turns into mauve and 'rose' when tinted!)
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- Why DT&G PDF edition was so late this month.
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Welcome to May. Sorry, it's the third already, but we're running just a tad
behind this month.
We're not in the second week of trying to get upgraded computers functioning properly.
We upgraded to the last Mac OS before OS/X, and thought everything would be okay.
We were forced to give up our previous program for producing DT&G and move it
over to PageMaker 6.5 which we use occasionally.
__ We were forced to upgrade and replace Adobe ATM,
as well as upgrade, then obtain a "fix" for Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat
Distiller. We did default installations and when the May DT&G was distilled to
the PDF file it looked like this miserable
example of "default" settings.
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settings, and read the books, etc., and the best we could get looks like Thismiserable
mess. Here's what the actual file is supposed
to look like.
__ You see our carefully prepared "Burgundy"
HEX samples (above, right) for the month of May? Well this (at right) is what Adobe
thinks those colors are supposed to look like. Notice that Acrobat also did us the
favor of enlarging the image for some reason. The burgundy example above is the actual
graphic used to distill. And this is through PageMaker 6.5 and Adobe's OWN PDF extractor.
The full story is in DT&G at: http://www.graphic-design.com/DTG/acrobat_mess/
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- On with the show: May is Creativity Month!
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Here we are and it's Creativity Month... you'll want to enjoy Cartoon Appreciation
week, this week, and celebrate "Creative Beginnings Month" all month long.
Enroll in a course, write a poem, paint a painting, launch a social event -- do anything
new that will stimulate your creativity. If that's not enough to celebrate, then
try: Breathe Easy Month sponsored by the American Lung Association (800) LUNG-USA;
Better Sleep Month, sponsored by the Better Sleep Council; National Bike Month with
the League of American Bicyclist (www.bikeleague.org); Family Support Month, with
CHILD (Children Hurt in Legal Disputes); and the one I like best, Date Your Mate
Month where you're invited to make your romance sizzle! Make a real date with your
mate during May! Thanks to Rose Smith, President of the Institute of Monogamy in
Albuquerque, NM! So if you can, join us in Albuquerque,
or just celebrate at home!
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 Congratulations Graduates- .
Each year in May I like to send out a big congratulations to all those graduating
in the fields of graphic design, illustration, photography and related fields of
communication arts and design. Welcome to the real world of graphic communications.
Graduates, family members, friends or relatives reading today take note. We're opening
the FOLIO program to those of you who would like to display your works in a Graphic
Design Network FOLIO site. Send us your samples and if selected you'll get your own,
free, Partner FOLIO in your selection of domains. Very cool. Send an email and tell
us where you graduated from, and that you're interested. We'll reply with complete
instructions on where and how to proceed. Read some of the details of the program now. Again, congratulations
and good luck!
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- Special Guests for May
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Here's a big welcome to Bridget
Smith, our latest addition to the Designing
Women series started in March! Watch for the FOLIO sites to open this month featuring
Bridget along with Heather Bellanca,
last month's FOLIO. Also this month we welcome Mark DiNubila with his brief but hard-hitting tutorial on Colorizing
images in Photoshop.
__ In the weeks of May, welcome special guest columnists
in both the Design & Publishing Center, and the Designers' Bookshelf. Joshua
Westerholm brings us a report on Flash 5: Virtual Classroom, and Judy Spencer takes a look at
the special edition CorelDRAW 10: The Official Guide. Judy and Joshua were introduced
to us through the BOOKSTER program, and Josh has already begun his careful evaluation
of the Flash 5 Magic Remix book. All of our special guests are available for discussion
in the Designers' CAFE.
__ Dr. D'Lynn Waldron's How to use noise in computer art and photo-retouching has been
posted in the Photoshop Tips & Tricks department along with Mr Pixelsmith who
answers this month's Photoshop for the web question from a reader: Can you set transparency with color range?
__ I'll be looking deeper into the fabulous Photoshop 6 for Photographers, and later in the month we'll hear
from Katrin Eismann and her awesome Photoshop Restoration & Retouching. There's
lots of great things happening during the spring, so come along and enjoy them all
with us.
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- This is NOT the end of the May Newsletter!
- Next week we'll be posting all the rest of the content and goodies for May. Again,
we were seriously delayed and hindered by all the problems with machine and software
in the past two weeks, so we'll be adding the rest later.
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Here's to YOU, for your happiest May ever! Don't forget Mother's day on the 13th...
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Fred
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Fred Showker, your lowly editor -- showker at graphic-design.com
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"I like the dreams of the future
___ better than the history
of the past." ... Thomas Jefferson
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Each month accesses (looking for that new EPS clip art disk) and prize registrations
are denied in the Publishers’Warehouse.
__ Why? Because the email address keyed into the Loading
Dock request was incorrect, or no longer in use. I find it hard to believe that people
would register for something and then drop the address.
__ Remember: no spaces, correct spelling. Dozens
of AOL users didn't put in "@aol.com" -- remember: name@aol.com, no spaces.
(We assume they were AOL since they had no "@" indicator.)
__ Remember too, that the loading dock changes locations
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column.
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