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Do you like fonts?
Well? Do'ya?
Our feature fonts
collection this month
is GALLO Fonts
and we'll be giving
the CD-ROM to
some lucky reader!
Don't miss the
FALL FONTS
FESTIVAL
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Hello and greetings to the opening of the Autumn DT&G. Each year we do special
things all through the months of September and October. This year is no exception
with our Fall Fonts Festival, and Educational Resources for Back to School. It's
lots of fun, and everyone can play along...
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- DT&G: Vol. 11, #9, September 2001
- in the PDF Edition:
Fall Fonts Festival, Back to School for Fred
* News & Reviews: The New Masters
* News & Reviews: MovieWorks works
for YOU
* Technique: Basic Rules of Design and
Layout
* Technique: Visual Proofreading
* Letters@: just a few of our letters
this month including: To be a Designer means being eternally creative; * How to best
advertize your graphic design with limited finances?; *Effective logo design; *Drop
shadows on images in Photoshop; * What happened to Visual Proofreading; *How do I
export a transparent image with a seamless shadow?
* 60-Seconds #135: Inventing the Future?
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- This month's issue is brought to you
by the color AUTUMN.
- In August I said that September's brown hues would make a perfect compliment
to OLIVE -- so this month we present the warm palette of autumn colors.
___ What we needed were the colors of changing foliage
which includes: Brown, Burnt Sienna, Sienna and Gold. Add a touch of green, or from
August, and you've got a friendly, comfortable color palette that almost everyone
will easily warm up to.
 ___ In PageMaker or Quark XPress, just open
the color dialog or palette, and set to RGB or CYMK and key in the recipes shown.
At left you see a 60% Tint of the Gold, and throughout the issue you'll see other
tints as well. Don't tint either of the russets because when tinted they quickly
begin to look "dirty" or like a mistake. The Brown, on other hand should
render a whole new world of tans when tinted. Try running a 15% to 20% tint of the
brown over the entire sheet on your next project, then reverse the heads out letting
the white paper colorize them white. (Careful! 24 point or larger!)
___ Use these "EARTH" tones when you want
a soft, natural feeling to your project.
If you want to really experience the colors of fall, plan a visit to the Shenandoah
Valley sometime between the 15th and 25th of October... you'll see more color than
can be reproduced on the web. It's called Fall Foliage time in the Valley
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- Birthdays? From last month?
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First, however let me say that I had no idea that so many of you would take
me seriously when I promised a prize for the first person who guessed my age correctly.
___ Wow. So many of you responded, and so many missed
it completely. You guys flatter me. Everyone thought my age would be a lot younger
than it really is! What a great feeling. Aside from being 39 again this year, everyone
took me too seriously and guessed low... well, with the exception of Suzy Richared
from Humble, Texas who came within a few months!
___ Suzy writes: "Thanks, Fred, you've made
a great weekend even better with the news that I won. As for how I came up with my
guess, I looked at your writing and you seemed very experienced with a well honed
sense of humor. Most people forget that without being able to see other people, everyone
seems about the same age on the Internet. It's the great equalizer. My passions are
Photoshop 6 and digital photography."
___ Congratulations, Suzy, I've jut put a tag with your
name on it on Gary David Bouton's fabulous "INSIDE PHOTOSHOP 6" book for
you to have and enjoy! Thanks for participating, and for reading DT&G!
___ Oh, speaking of Gary, his book just hit the shelves
in special LIMITED EDITION form! You might want to check that out, those of you who
didn't win. Beside that, Gary helps us out this month in our Letters column. Thanks
Gary!
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- Don't miss the Fall Fonts Festival!
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We'll all be there including the folks from the Publishers' Warehouse. The
Festival will present not just fonts, but lots of the very best font links in the
web. (These are all proofed and there's not a dud or spam site in the batch!)
___ Aside from some great shareware fonts, and a trip
to the "LetterHeads" site, we'll be showing the GALLO fonts collection,
and we'll be giving away a complete CD-ROM of Gallo Fonts. You won't want to miss
that.
Go clicking mad at the Festival this month.
That will be: http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/index.html
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- Big issue this month...
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Editors and contributors went hog wild during August and bring you lots of
juicy stuff for September: the &Else column carries a special supplement for
parents and educators for the Back-To-School season.
Speaking of back to school... your humble editor is going back to school, but not
as a student -- I've been asked to take the reins of "Introduction to Computer
Graphics" class at JMU. Be sure to read this month's 60-Second Windows! (In
the PDF edition for now! That's: http://www.graphic-design.com/PubWarehouse/DTG-Library.html)
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- New in the Design Bookshelf...
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Speaking of back to school, the Design Bookshelf has several dozen new book
reviews this month, including this month's Editor's Choice the whopping "Masters
of Photoshop" book reviewed later in these pages! Later in the month, and for
October, we're taking a whole stack of the best new books, lining them up, and letting
YOU take your pick! It'll be fun, and you can find it at: http://www.design-bookshelf.com/
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- DTG Readers Web Sites...
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This month we have an interesting mix of web sites to review -- all sent in
fellow DTG readers. Among more than fourty that made it to the final cut, we'll start
with a visit to the Havelock High School Class of 1981, for their 20th reunion! Then,
we'll do a little shopping at the BookZonePro, for book publishing tips and resources.
Nearby, we can peek in on Magic Scraps to see some creative ideas in scrapbook supplies.
While we're at it, we don't want to miss the Krystal Kids Greetingscards site , and
if you're a K-9 lover, you'll want to check out the Dog Trainingsite, for pet pampering
ideas.
___ No month is complete without a little art, so this
month we start with The Digital Artist, a professional exhibit and portfolio
site for artists; and finish up with The Upstairs Gallery, a non-profit fine
arts gallery. Interesting stops for web designers might be the Sandy Fletcher
Real Estate site, which offers some interesting virtual tours, or check out the
Music For Web Pages101 site, where you can download free music clips to publish
on your site!
___ Three particularly special "Personal"
web pages this month are: Articles for Women, a student class project for
Indonesian women ; and, believe it or not, The Alien signal -- a UFO site
all about extraterrestrials! For a truly unique experience, visit: A Robot Named
John dot-com... where the creator, 'John' promises to bring you a smile! Bravo!
Smiles is what it's all about, and you can see these and dozens of others -- this
month -- in the Web department at Graphic-Design.com --
an easy stroll to: http://www.graphic-design.com/Web/Reviews/NEW.html
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Photoshop Help is On The Way
One last comment. Sometime in the late fall you'll see a bright new star on the horizon.
It represents months of work on the part of many people, and we think you're going
to go for it: www.Photoshop911.com the Photoshop site with thousands of 'searchable'
links to tutorials, graphics, downloadables, and portals.
___ It's not officially open yet, BUT if you know of
any real good Photoshop sites, and would like to enter the grand opening sweepstakes,
you can actually go there now and enter your suggestions.
So, unless you're a Photoshop user: do
not click on this link!
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So don't forget to join us at the festival, sit back and enjoy the wonderful colors,
styles, and changes for Autumn.
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We'll be looking for'ya...
Fred Showker
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Fred Showker, your lowly editor -- showker at graphic-design.com
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"One man, with courage, is a majority."
... Thomas Jefferson
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Design & Publishing Center
* http://www.graphic-design.com/news/index.html
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- Please read: Top Ten Signs You're About to be RIPPED OFF
- Fred tracks the illusive spammer! With the influx of thousands of new UCEs ('Unsolicited
Commercial Email" -- aka: SPAM) hitting the Graphic Design Network servers,
our spam-hunting team decided to track a few of these low-lifes down, and find out
where it's all coming from.
___ What we found was rather alarming, and out of more
than 7,000 UCEs gathered since January 1st -- so far -- we haven't found but ONE
honest person. But we've found lots of them who would sell their mother for a quarter,
or stab you in the back for a nickel. Not a pretty sight.
___ * http://www.60-Seconds.com/articles/130a.html
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* Design-U Associate Program Brings You Cash -- If you think YOUR site has sufficient
traffic of people who would benefit from the Design University seminars, why not
become a Design University Extension Campus. This allows you to offer D-U courses
to your visitors, and earn a 15% commission for every Seminar your readers buy! Contact:
Admissions at Design-U.org for details
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How to contact us?
http://www.graphic-design.com/contact.html
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Photo Retouching Seminar .. http://www.design-U.org/Photoshop.html
The Designers'Bookshelf ......... http://www.design-bookshelf.com/
News Serve Net, news & stuff........... http://www.news-serve.net/
60-Second Windows, Editorials ......... http://www.60-Seconds.com/
The User Group Network ............... http://www.user-groups.net/
The Rumor Manager ....... http://www.user-groups.net/RumorManager/
The Resource Manager ....... http://www.user-groups.net/resources/
Mac Shareware .... http://www.user-groups.net/shareware/index.html
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Folks, we can’t help you if you don’t
cooperate...
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
each month. You'll find the clue you need to the new location in each issue of this
column.
Don't forget to write.
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Contents Copyright (c) 2001, Reproduction or reuse of parts or
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