DTG News for April 2013

DTG Newsletter ~ Vol. 23, #4 ~ April, 2013

  1. APRIL 2013
  2. Photoshop : clean and comfortable colors in photographs
  3. Miss Aniela : A Surrealistic view
  4. Maki Kawakita : explosive color for dramatic storytelling
  5. InDesign tricks from 'HerGeekness' vs. MS Word
  6. 18th Annual Designing Women Four
  7. Photoshop Madness Meets Designing Women Again
  8. 12 rules for designing remarkable covers
  9. Adobe Master Class: Photoshop Inspiring artwork
  10. Carson becomes a professional
  11. EMBRACE+ and the Future of Phone Notifications
  12. Blacklisting, Whitelisting and the Way Forward: Comments on the Schneier-Ranum Face-Off
  13. 62% of Marketers Don’t Know How to Measure Social Media Advertising
  14. Artlandia Brings SymmetryMill to Google SketchUp for Live 3D Pattern Texturing
  15. &Else : news, views, and reviews
  16. We love April ... but may love MAY more . . .
April 1, 2013

DTG News for March 2013

DTG Newsletter ~ Vol. 23, #3 ~ March, 2013

  1. March on: Designing Women
  2. DW Photoshop: Create cool, splashy typography using Adobe Photoshop
  3. DW Feature: Are You Stuck in a Spiral? 6 Steps You Can Take To Get Out!
  4. DW Feature: Heather Keogh : Green Screen Photography
  5. DW Feature: LAWS of Authorship
  6. 18th Annual Designing Women Celebration
  7. Photoshop Madness Meets Designing Women
  8. 10 Simple Presentation Tips for Professionals
  9. 60 Seconds Blog : Spectacular Vertical Gardens
  10. 60 Seconds Blog : False Advertising ???
  11. Brick and Mortar Dying While Digital is Flying
  12. &Else News, Views & Reviews
  13. DTG Pinterest
  14. Facebook Timeline Winners for 2012, on Pinterest
  15. The Publishers' Warehouse
  16. DTG Facebook antics & Designing Women
  17. Next Month: Designing Spring
March 22, 2013

DTG News for February 2013

* February: Love, Art, History
* 18th Annual Black History Month Art Celebrations
* Black History Month Poster
* 60 SECONDS - CREATIVE Tidbits : Valentine's Do It Yourself
* Adobe Illustrator Gradient Mesh distorts images
* Web Critique : Thumbs DOWN for Zubera classifieds
* The Art of Boudoir Photography: How to Create Stunning Photographs of Women
* 1,000 Poses for Creating Stunning Photographs of Women
* FunctionFox says Small Creative Companies are Poised for Growth in 2013
* 5 Tips for Turning Your Blog Into a Book
* Ricoh Americas: ‘Unstructured knowledge’ is the challenge of our time
* Marketing Update #2: Data is the New Creative
* Marketing Update #1: Winter tips for the wise
* Web Update for a new year . . .
* Publishing Update #2: death knell for the print industry?
* Publishing Update #1: 2013 Here we come
* Online Social Media #1 for January
* Online Social Media #2: Tips and tricks to improve Facebook
* Online Social Media #3: Reaching your reader
* DESIGNING WOMEN
* Reader Web Sites for Review
* &ELSE News & Views
* Free stuff ... books, software, more for you
* Editor's Last Words
and more ! February 1, 2013

DTG News for January 2013

01 HAPPY NEW YEAR ... and a GIFT for you
02 2012 Facebook Timeline Award Winners
03 2012 DTG Product of the Year : FoxL Bluetooth Speaker
04 2012 Book of the Year: Saul Bass
05 2012 BEST: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
06 Photoshop : Create a Polar Panorama Effect in 5 Minutes
07 Getty : The Year 2012 in Photos
08 The Print and the Process: Taking Compelling Photographs
09 60-Seconds : Who would block the Spam Cop ???
10 Business : Five Best Portfolio Practices
11 Business : National Job Growth Echoes That of Graphic Designers Over Next 10 Years
12 Marketing : Make Your Book Jump Off the Shelf!
13 2013 Online Social Media Update for a new year
14 The Scythe and the Rabbit
15 Be sure to get a web critique
16 &Else News, Views and Reviews :
17 Good-bye 2012 -- GOOD RIDDANCE January 3, 2013

DTG News for December 2012

* DECEMBER Happy Holidays
* Secrets of Designing a good Logo
* Photoshop Madness for the holidays
* Photoshop Tutorial: Festive Postcard ready to print!
* Web Critique : GoBop Festival and Event Website
* Favorite Photography books
* CREATIVE Tidbits : Holidays
* Social Media Update : November
* 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
* iWork gets a new collection of Elements for Desktop Publishing
* Top 10 Tips for Self-Publishing Success
* Your photos make the perfect Wall Calendars gifts
* Transform your Photos and Videos into Professional Pencil Drawings
* Logoist makes cool effects, not logos
* Cinefy is an Amazing Mobile Video Special FX Studio
* Photo Sense 1.8.0: The Easiest Photo Editing Software for Mac and iOS
* Photoca iOS - Advanced Photo Editor Creates Pop Art Masterworks
* The Top Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Fonts
* Google’s Remarketing for Search could have huge impact
* The Sustainability of Tablets
* The Top Tech Gifts This Season
* December's Twelve gives way to THIRTEEN! November 30, 2012

DTG News for November, 2012

01 November: Designing Holidays
02 Photoshop Tutorial : Simulating Photoshop 3D Text
03 Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Custom Photoshop Brush Set
04 The Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book
05 Gallery, Field Trip : Photo Manipulation at its very best!
06 Transform your Photos and Videos into Professional Pencil Drawings
07 Books : Extraordinary gifts you'll make by hand
08 Wedding Photography: Snapshots to Great Shots
09 60 seconds: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
10 Photo Sense: The Easiest Photo Editing Software for Mac and iOS
11 Kick off the Holidays with Painting Apps for iPad
12 60 seconds : Fun with politics (for once!)
13 Social Media Update : into the holidays
14 Design - CREATIVE Tidbits : from Vignelli to PANTONE
15 Web Design Update October
16 November Thanks for all you do November 1, 2012

DTG News for October

01 Fred's 2012 famous fonts surfs
02 18th Annual Top Typography Books in Review
03 40 Free Macintosh (commercial) Fonts
04 Photoshop: 3D Typography in the Sky
05 Building patterns has never been this easy
06 Hermann Zapf: Design at Hallmark Cards
07 New Gallo Fonts for Design & Crafts
08 12 Essential books for creative pros, freelancers
09 CREATIVE Tidbits : Typography
10 Fall Publishing Update
11 Marketing Update : promotions into fall
12 Sub Contracting can be profitable
13 Search for AMERICA'S NEXT AUTHOR
14 Did you see the Publishers' Warehouse?
15 &Else NEWS for the creative professional :
16 Pages of Fonts Fest Past :
17 October rolls on ... then it's November and the Holidays October 1, 2012

DTG News for September 2012

Welcome to the 18th Annual Fall Fonts Festival! This year there's lots of new stuff -- and the festival runs all through September and October ... enjoy:
02 18th Annual Fall Typography Surf
03 150 Inspiring Typography & Hand Lettering
04 Free Script Fonts
05 2012 Typography Resources and Links
06 GALLO FONTS over 200
07 Photoshop (Fonts) Madness
08 Photoshop (touch-n-run) Madness
09 Infographics 101: Using Pictures to Communicate
10 What makes a great logo?
11 CREATIVE Tidbits : Deciphering Ideas
12 Pasting and placing MS Word text into Adobe applications
13 Print Advertising delivers Best ROI
14 60-Seconds: What if the Internet went away?
15 &Else : SVG Import is Here
16 3D Miniature Volkswagen Test Drive Cars
. . . and lots more! August 31, 2012

DTG News for August 2012

Join our annual "Back to (Design) School" issue, for lots of learning opportunities and resources ... this issue includes :
01 August: Back To School
02 Tutorial : Easy magazine cover in Photoshop
03 Photoshop (EDU) madness
04 Photoshop (AUGUST) Madness
05 Photoshop CS6: Filters for Lens Distortions
06 10% OFF Colin Smith's PHOTOSHOP CS6 ROADSHOW
07 Adobe InDesign CS6: Paragraph Composers & Tabs
08 EDU : Use the Field Blur Filter in Photoshop CS6
09 EDU : Collect for Output for Adobe Illustrator CS6
10 EDU : Effects in Adobe InDesign CS6 : Transparency
11 EDU : Adobe InDesign CS6 : Paragraph & Character Styles
12 EDU : Expanding Your Photography Portfolio
13 EDU : Nikon DSLR learning, training
14 60-Seconds : My apology to all our readers
15 Cloud Rendering for 3D Artists and Architects
16 Script Arsenal for Photoshop
17 Marketing Update : Back to (Design) School
18 CREATIVE Tidbits : Awards to Crowdsourcing
19 &ELSE News, Views & Reviews
20 18th Annual Fall Fonts Festival
21 Have a great August August 1, 2012

DTG News for July 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