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A set of inspiring images for today. If you would like to see any of your favorite images featured then don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Here’s another roundup of some of the great work being submitted to the PSDFAN Flickr Group. Go check it out if you’re feeling uninspired today.
Once you’ve set up your workspace exactly the way you want it, you may want to save it for later use. If you choose Window>Workspace>Save Workspace, you can enter a name for your current layout. Saving the workspace can also save your current keyboard shortcuts and current menus.
…Photoshop World Instructor, the man behind the Epson Print Academy, Marketing Manager for the Professional Market for Epson USA, and one of my all-time favorite urban/city/people photographers, Dan Steinhardt.
Dan (better known as Dano to those who know him), has an amazing advantage, in that in his role at Epson, he’s got access to all the [...]

Badia Software’s BigPicture is one of my favorite XTensions, and now it’s available for QuarkXPress 8 as well as earlier versions. It really is “The Best Picture Manager“, as I referred it in this story from last year.
You can learn more about it at Badia’s website and in this article in X-Ray Magazine.
If you spend much [...]
Kevin Siegel did a nice writeup of how to control when QuarkXPress displays text as a gray bar, rather than as actual letters — otherwise known as Greeking.
Check it out at IconLogic’s blog here.
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Rogue Vectorvault operative Kevin Gonsalves loves his iPhone. He’s up on all the latest plug-ins and accessories to make sure that his mobile device is tricked out with best of the best.
Recently, Kevin pointed us in the direction of Poolga. It’s a site dedicated to iPhone wallpapers. If you’re nuts about your iPhone you’ll want [...]
Hawaiian art has always had a unique style of its own- we couldn’t resist putting out this fun design. The cultural traditional colors, patterns, and designs have always been vibrant with color and movement. Today we have this cool hawaii style wallpaper vector, it’s great for designing big hawaiian shirts or hawaiian page designs or [...]
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Nancy Masse, (our in-house copywriter and Baroness of Social Web Marketing), sent me the photo above last week, and when I first looked at it, I didn’t immediately hit me what it was. Then I was like, “Wow…that is so cool!” As impressed as I was with the very clever [...]
A set of inspiring images for today. If you would like to see any of your favorite images featured then don’t hesitate to get in touch.
We continue our tour around the Layer Styles window, we go down to the Bevel and Emboss section.
Oh Craigslist, is there nothing you can’t lowest common denominator?Thanks to Brian! Original is here.
Conventional wisdom holds that it is impossible to downsave an InDesign document more than one version at a time. Here’s how to get around that convention. But is it wise???

To celebrate the launch of our new wallpaper section I decided to do a tutorial on how to create a grungy wallpaper. The tutorial utilizes several techniques such as the mask tool and integrating textures and patterns into your work.
Easily view, print, and collaborate on PDF files with free Adobe Reader 9 software. Adobe has just released version 9, and you can now download new and previous versions of the free Adobe Reader. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)
There are a number of small but helpful improvements in QuarkXPress 8 involving hyphens, invisible characters, spell checking, and indents. Below is an explanation of the small improvements made in the world of text, courtesy of X-Ray magazine. (This is an excerpt from “QuarkXPress 8: a Suite Response“.)
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In QuarkXPress 6.X, if you added [...]
Code Line’s Color Expert is an amazingly cool iPhone application that turns your iPhone into a color sampler and color scheme builder. You can take photos with the iPhone’s camera, match colors in the photos to Pantone PMS and Goe swatches, build custom Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary and Triadic color palettes, email your color schemes, [...]
Camera Raw 4.1 has a new Presets panel. It lets you save popular or frequently used settings so you don’t have to re-create them each time (say, for a black-and-white photo). Here’s the tip: If you ever change computers, you’ll probably want to take those settings along with you. It’s not quite as easy as [...]
When CS4 was released, like several other users, I was very dismayed to see that the InDesign Contact Sheet script was no longer included in Bridge. I couldn’t understand why such a handy feature had been left out. I know it’s practically blasphemous to say this here, but for contact sheets, InDesign is no longer [...]
Picture your finished custom wordpress theme live on your server, completely unique and fresh. By the time you have finished reading the resources in this post that scenario will be a reality. People love custom themes, they make a blog come to life with a personality of its own. It’s no secret that they’ll reward [...]
