2001: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

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DT&G: January 2001
* Editor - How’s your year? 2001 will be a good one!
* News & Review: Zen of the Pen with Sharon Steuer
* Technique: Solves a reader’s problems stroking
__ and stacking... making outline type print properly
* Technique: Two images become one...
__ Joining Imagesfrom scans, digital photos, web pages
* Special Feature:... The Design & Publishing Center
__ 2000 State of the Center... who our readers are,
__ where they come from, and what they do.
* News & Review: Spell Catcher 8 powerhouse spell checker
* 60-Seconds: 2001: remember the odyssey
* &Else -- Cool stuff, Prizes for your Shareware ideas: - YUM!
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DT&G:
February 2001
* &Editor - Love, and Creative Romance! Sign me up!
* News & Review: The Grammar of Ornament
* Technique: A Reader sends in her Scratch Pad Promo
* Technique: Wrap to Fill: Backgrounds with the Wrap filter
* Letters@: - How to put a texture into typography? * About Dot etching * Photoshop or PhotoDeluxe? * Making great deals of money, right away * Designing Book Covers; and others.
* News & Review: Drag-N-Drop FTP, at last!
* 60-Seconds #128: One small victory against SPAM
* &Else - Web JAVA, XML training, Steve Becker's Mac InfoManager2, and others.
* 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 February 8
__* GFI: Virus Alert: "Melissa" Virus Is Back! ; * WOW Releases 2000 Web Professional Survey ; * SSPA Releases New Support Sense Booklet ; * Exchange 2000 Now Does Faxes ; * IXSoftware.com Introduces "Make It So!" ; * Video Pics comes to Windows, Mac now Compatible With Adobe Premiere 6.0 ; * KinkyBeepII is the sound synthesizer that creates system alerts ; * Making cool email effects... ; * Here comes a new PDF tool for Windows ; * Windows users can now "Getafont"
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DT&G:
March 2001
* &Editor - - MARCH is for Women
* News & Review: Mac Webmasters: No More Broken Links
* Technique: Should we colorize fonts in Quark?
* Technique: Brush Patterns in Illustrator, way cool!
* Letters@: * Colorizing a Vehicle without changing the background... * Click-Art Cartoons on the iMac? * Adjustments to the “Padding Press” instructions.
* &TYPE: Fresh ‘Naomi’ font, and we identify a font for readers!
* 60-Seconds #129: Requiem For Online Clip Art
* &Else - iView Multimedia, Painter Camp 2001, and others.
* 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 --
__* GFI: Virus Alert: "Melissa" Virus Is Back! ; * WOW Releases 2000 Web Professional Survey ; * SSPA Releases New Support Sense Booklet ; * Exchange 2000 Now Does Faxes ; * IXSoftware.com Introduces "Make It So!" ; * Video Pics comes to Windows, Mac now Compatible With Adobe Premiere 6.0 ; * KinkyBeepII is the sound synthesizer that creates system alerts ; * Making cool email effects... ; * Here comes a new PDF tool for Windows ; * Windows users can now "Getafont"
__ Each month a new batch of interesting or beneficial items that have crossed our desk.
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DT&G:
April 2001
PDF EDITION
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&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!
* 60-Seconds #130: Surprise!
* Zen of the Pen: Become a pen-vectoring master with Sharon Steuer's Universal Zen of the Pen Off-Line Seminar
&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?
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DT&G:
May 2001
May hath arrived...
After a three week delay, we finally got the new Adobe Acrobat working properly, and can now generate the DT&G magazine you've come to download and love...
* Designing Women: Meet Designer, Bridget Smith
* Technique: Photoshop 6, Colorizing Images
* Technique: Transparency with Color Range
* Martin Evening's Photoshop 6 for Photographers
* Letters@: * Tips for hiring a Designer
* 60-Seconds #131: Born too early? Maybe not!
* Tips for Graphic Design Graduates
* &Else * Congress Aims To Can Spam * Smart Kids * Macintosh Virus Alert * The Suespammers Project * For Mac Pros who Bill by the Hour.
&Else -- updated May 1
* This Month: ...* Congress Aims To Can Spam ; ...* Kids and Robots...
...* Macintosh Virus Alert ; ...* Speaking of making your kids smart...
...* The Suespammers Project: An anti-spam legal resource ; ...* For Mac Pros who Bill by the Hour... ; ...* Pretty Good Solitaire Quest Edition (Windows)
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DT&G: June 2001
Hello Summer...
* Editor: Marilyn Monroe, Letters, Web site reviews
* Designing Graduates: Meet Designer, Charlotte Lapierre
* Technique: The best way to get rid of "Red Eye"
* News & Reviews: The fabulous new TypeStyler
* Letters@: * Why Do Graphic Artists Manipulate Society
* 60-Seconds #132: Careful what you wish for.
* Design Graduates: Submit samples for a comp FOLIO
&Else -- updated June 1
Here's some news items that wouldn't fit any place in the regular publicaitons, so we just post them in "Else"... * Adobe Releases Acrobat Reader for Palm OS * No more waiting for 3D on the Web * NEW USB full-screen video on Mac * It Takes Effort To Combat Spam * AOL's New Filter on the Block * FBI Blasts Reluctant Hackees; * 1,001 Arabian Nights of Sex * Teen Market a Tough Cell * You Write, They Edit, iPublish * Getting ready for vacation?
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DT&G:
July 2001
* Editor: - Independence Day... Fireworks, and the message is the media
* News & Reviews: Fireworkd f/x & Design by Joyce Evans
* Technique: Using the "Canvas" Command in Photoshop X
* Technique: Easy, Quick Up/Down Button Bars for Navigation (All)
* Technique: Designing Tight Color Schemes for Web Pages
* Technique: Hidden Powers of the ColorPicker, Photoshop 6
* 60-Seconds #133: Independence Day and Microsoft Smart Tags
* Let's See Your Stuff: Submit samples for a comp FOLIO
&Else_ * Blowout Coverage: Microsoft Breakup Overturned ; _ * Microsoft Won't Be Split ; _ * Microsoft Hopes To Settle ; _ * Decision Reaction Mixed ; _ * Microsoft "Smart Tags" Bomb Came and Went ; _ * MacHack a Success... and you can share it... ; _ * The "Ultimate" 3D Rendering Program? [GO]
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DT&G:
August 2001
* Editor: Celebrating August in Augusta
* News & Reviews: Photoshop Elements... at last
* Technique: PS 6 Picture Package Printing Resolution
* Technique: Easy Boxes in Photoshop
* Technique: Painting Realistic Hair (Reader Tip)
* Technique: Photoshop: Custom Filters from Actions?
* Technique: Making your own, custom CD Jackets
* News & Reviews: Web Ads NOT served
* 60-Seconds #134: Fred Showker's Wild Kingdom
* & Else _ What else? [GO ]
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DT&G:
September 2001
* Editor: 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? (More in the "Letters" column)
* 60-Seconds #135: Inventing the Future?
* &Else _ What else? [GO ]
* &Else _ Special Education &Else
* &Else _ Special FDA &Else issue
Updated: Mr. Pixelsmith Duz Colors
Business: Broadband security woes
Editorial: 50-Billion Ads Not Served
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DT&G:
October 2001
* Editor: Fall Fonts Festival, October web sites to review, more.
* News & Reviews: the new era of "Experience Design"
* News & Reviews: Introducing the Digital Art Winners
* Technique: Revisiting the Basic Rules of Design and Layout
* Technique: Which typeface should I use? How do I know?
* 3-D Programs? Gary Bouton answers a reader question
* Pop Quiz: Can you identify the techniques used in these layouts?
* Letters@: How many undos can you undo?
* Letters@: Matching Screen colors to Print colors
* 60-Seconds #136: How do you spell GALL?
* &Else _ What else? [GO ]* Here comes Illustrator 10, InDesign 2.0 * How much to charge for Web or DTP Design? * New Platform Independent MPeg Viewers * Flash, Bash, Bam... * Hackers, Not Terrorists, Major Concern
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DT&G:
November 2001
* Editor: Closing the Fall Fonts Festival... Opening Holidays
* News & Reviews: The gift you should give BEFORE Christmas
* SPECIAL EVENT: Ilene Strizver from ITC on "Initial Caps"
* News & Reviews: Type Rules: Catch the Typography Fever
* FEATURE: The New Art. The Art Nouveau Movement
* &Type! Visit Paris for our Warehouse of Art Nouveau Fonts
* Letters@: Photoshop: Custom Brushes for Fun & Profit
* 60-Seconds #137: May I See Your Passport Please?
* &Else _ What else? [GO ] * Adobe responds to Macromedia lawsuit * Adobe launches "Design Team" web site * Sophisticated Screen Captures for Mac... * Maps Of Afghanistan In Illustrator Format * Rain 3D into FLASH files * Ooooba Dooooba: 120 Gigabytes on my desktop * Free raw materials for FLASH geeks... * Easy online slide shows with PicMaster * iBook Peripherals and Software Utilities * Got advertising or sales questions? * Alert Microsoft Visual Studio users... * Tracking Revisions and Approval made Easy
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DT&G: December 2001
* Editor: Yes, We have a Winner... Welcome to the Holidays
* News & Reviews: Whatever You Dream: Software of the Year Awards
* News & Reviews: IrisPEN II: Product of the Year Awards
* FEATURE: Newsletter Make-over Clinic for a reader
* Letters@: Converting Color Slides to Black & White Prints
* Photoshop Elements and Photoshop
* Ownership of Digital Images
* 60-Seconds #138: Make a list... check it twice
* &Else _ Great Downloads in time for the Holidays, * Killer text editing for both platforms, * Manipulating huge text files, * Alternative to QuickTime? iMovie? Get HIP, * Printing 'Smart' just got easier... and many more at the &Else web page
What else? [GO ]
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DT&G: for 2000
* December 2000, December Editor's Column
* November2000, NovemberEditor's Column
* October 2000, OctoberEditor's Column
* September 2000, SeptemberEditor's Column

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