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PlanetQuark.com - the first website for QuarkXpress users launched
2007-10-31 20:50:11
The first and only independent website dedicated to QuarkXpress users has been launched. This statement seems a bit over the top, since there are thousands of websites dedicated to its competitor, Adobe InDesign, but as odd as it may seem it really is the first.
The website covers not only the current version (7) but also [...] ...
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Sunday Design Resource - Issue 1
2007-10-21 15:43:43
I’ve been thinking for a while to start a weekly article with some of the resources I found over the years in certain design fields. Both free and paid resources, articles, tutorials and websites ment to help designers, coders, photographers, and graphic artists. So here it is. The first issue. As I’ve been searching [...] ...
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Spiral Graphics Releases 4th Free Texture Collection
2007-10-15 14:10:56
Spiral Graphics, best known for its Genetica Texture Editor for Windows, has released the fourth free texture collection. Genetica is most used by 3D modeling professionals, but also by 2D illustration artists.
What makes Genetica unique is that it uses presets to generate textures, thus making a resolution-independent format. This make possible to render textures up [...] ...
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Graphics
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Corel releases Painter Essentials 4
2007-10-12 15:48:01
Corel has just releases the 4th version of its natural media graphics program, a new version which prides itself with improved functionality and a great number of new features.
If you are not familiarized with this application suite here’s a brief description :
Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy [...] ...
Essentials
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Internet Retailer Web Design ‘08 Conference
2007-10-10 09:16:13
The conference will be held in Miami, Florida from January 30 to February 1, 2008.
Most e-commerce websites focus on increasing their traffic rate, but it’s just as important to convert this traffic into actual customers. After all what is the point oh attracting visitors who make no or very few purchases. We aren’t talking here [...] ...
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Design
Internet
Web
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Smashing Magazine launches free aniversary font
2007-10-05 17:38:13
Smashing Magazine has recently celebrated its first anniversary, and with this special occasion they asked designer Jos Buivenga, Dutch typo-designer who has created professional free font Delicious to create a special typeface for the magazine.
He came up with Anivers.
He describe this typeface, and the creation process :
I wanted it to be a robust and rigid [...] ...
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Il Lacrimo - Free Wordpress Theme
2007-10-05 15:49:34
Superb theme design by Design Disease. This theme is a widget ready, right sidebar, fixed width, 2 column layout.
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Mezzo v2 - Free Wordpress Theme
2007-10-05 15:42:29
Designed by Moses Francis, this free wordpress theme right sidebar, fixed width, 2 column style theme.
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Nobus - Free Wordpress Theme
2007-10-05 15:28:33
Nobus is a free, 3-column, fixed-width, web 2.0 style wordpress theme designed by Dezzanin Studios.
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Wordpress
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Playboy Cover Girl evolution via Photoshop
2007-09-28 20:43:46
These kind of videos have been circulating on the web for some time now. It all started with Dove Evolution, the transformation of a normal, slightly wrinkled girl into a “perfect face” for an advertising campaign.
For those who aren’t already convinced by the power of Photoshop here’s another one :
If you can’t see this video [...] ...
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Evolution
Photoshop
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Free PHP Top Sites Script
2007-09-26 22:24:56
Ever wanted to start your very own “top sites” website ? Well now you can do that very easy actually with Aardvark TopSites PHP script. If you still don’t know what I am talking about you can check the demo here.
Here’s a list of features this script offers :
Most important : It’s free
Members ranks can [...] ...
Php
Script
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Windows Media Player 11 Button - How did they do it
2007-09-26 01:10:34
To begin this tutorial, I simply created a few rectangles with different shades of blue.
Now select the “Elipse Tool” and draw a circle as I have done below with 121212 as your foreground color. Hold in the shift key to draw a perfect circle.
Now that you have your circle, you can now right click on [...] ...
Media
Windows
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Free Photoshop Brushes
2007-09-23 17:39:22
This is a collection of free Photoshop brushes I found on the Internet over the time. Most were posted on designfruit.com.
1. Choice Spring
A tribute to the beauty of spring, this set of brushes was designed by callmereal, using as inspiration some sketches by Lori Sartin.
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2. Japanese Foliage
Inspired after japanese-style prints, this set is [...] ...
Brushes
Photoshop
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CrazyLeaf Design Toolbar
2007-09-23 11:51:13
CrazyLeaf Design has launched its very own toolbar. I won’t bore you with too much details, just a small list of features :
Google powered search box
Double click search
Hand-picked links (interesting design links)
Pop-Up Blocker
Design, technology and fun feeds
Built-in communication system (chat)
Internet Radio
Weather
Email Notifier
Design, Tutorials and useful links
Support for Gadgets (Internet TV with stations from each country, [...] ...
Design
Toolbar
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CSSMenuMaker.com Contest - Win an iPhone
2007-09-22 14:51:30
CSSMenuMaker.com just announced a contest where users can submit their own CSS menu designs. The most innovative, eye pleasing, and all around best looking CSS menu is going to be rewarded with a 4Gb iPhone.
If you are a talented web designer and want to participate here’s what you need to come up with :
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Contest
Iphone
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Digital Vector Maps
2007-09-11 13:09:35
Digital Vector Maps offers more than 800 maps from all over the globe, ranging from simple outlines to detailed, multi-layered versions.
The maps are available in Adobe Illustrator and editable PDF formats. Maps are approximately 14 by 22 inches and are scalable to virtually any size without loss of detail and quality, thanks to their [...] ...
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Vector
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Using the Pen Tool - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial
2007-09-08 21:38:12
This is a very useful and complete tutorial about using the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. It’s very important to master the usage of this tool as it’s one of the most important, if not the most important creative tool in digital design. Enjoy !
If you can’t see this video click here.
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Advanced image resize algorithm
2007-08-29 12:03:21
This innovative resizing technique allows users to “smart” rescale images without the apparence of artefacts. The technique uses smart image recognition and uses algorithms to identify the least important areas of pictures and manipulating them accordingly.
If you can’t see the video click here.
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Photoshop World Tech Expo Free to Public for One Day
2007-08-28 11:45:00
The Photoshop World Tech Expo is open to the public one day only on Friday, September 7th from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Mandalay Bay South Convention Center, Level Two — Shorelines B, in Las Vegas. If you are interested in mingling with the biggest names in the industry and seeing the latest [...] ...
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Adobe Issues Security Patches for Photoshop CS2 and CS3
2007-08-12 18:22:35
Available for both the Windows and Mac versions of Photoshop, Adobe has given this the status of a critical update.
If there are still those that believe serious security threats are the attributes of a particular platform, a recent advisory from Adobe should put that myth firmly to rest. Although no user is known to [...] ...
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Free QuarkXPress 7.3 Update Available
2007-08-12 18:11:25
The 7.3 update for Mac and Windows adds localized user interfaces for European Portuguese, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, and Russian, as well as hyphenation and spelling support for Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic and Slovak.
Apart from these changes speed improvements have been made to the spell checker, saving and text handling. See the [...] ...
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3D Morphable Model Face Animation
2007-08-10 14:58:40
The technology available these days is amazing and it’s going to get more and more advanced. For example this 3D Morphable Model Face Animation technology. Basically this technology allows you to create a 3D face model using just a picture. You can create a 3D face model of Mona Lisa for example, you can make [...] ...
Animation
Model
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The Next Generation Computers - Microsoft Surface
2007-07-27 18:05:44
Forget about the keyboard and mouse. The next generation computers will be hands-on. Microsoft, has presented via popularmechanics.com a top secret project, codenamed Milan. This technology is called “surface computing” and uses multi-touch technology to interact with the user, or users. The beauty of multi-touch technology is that, unlike traditional devices such as the cursor [...] ...
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Microsoft
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Surface
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Logo Parodies
2007-07-24 16:45:25
Some designers have way too much free time on their hands. Over time a large number of big brands have been subject of parodies. Their logos aren’t an exception. Here’s the most famous logo parodies.
Some of them are pretty clever actually, and obviously are the product of hours of work. Enjoy!
Via Logo Design Blog.
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