December | 2011 | Gurus Unleashed

InDesign Creative & Fun Special Effects

Ever wanted to put photographs inside text or create stamped or cutout text for your brochures? How about creating cast shadows of text for fliers? Making your own holiday cards or invitations? Why not create a collage of images inside the shape of a jack-o-lantern, valentine, or any shape? In this online course you’ll learn...

InDesign Productivity Secrets – 10 Techniques You Can’t Afford Not to Use

Presented by Mr. InDesign Efficiency himself, author of the InTime InDesign Magazine column and the books Mastering InDesign for Print Design & Production, The InDesignSecrets.com Guide to What’s New in InDesign CS5 (And How to Use It), and others, and frequent speaker on InDesign productivity at the InDesign Conference, the InDesign Seminar Tour, and other...

Pariah Burke | Photoshop Creative & Fun Special Effects Workshops

In these 2-hour workshops you’ll learn powerful special effect techniques you can employ in just a few steps in Photoshop to jazz up photographs, fliers, brochures, signs, and any type of personal or professional project. Among other things you will learn to: turn any photo into a Polaroid, type or paint in liquid, carve text...

Secret Functions of Adobe Acrobat Pro X

We all use PDFs and Adobe Acrobat on a regular basis—the modern world couldn’t function without PDFs. Still, despite the constant use, there are many features and almost mystical powers within Acrobat Pro that even the most experienced users don’t know about. In this 2-hour session we’ll explore those hidden gems and what they can...

Photoshop CS6 Leaked in Series of Spanish Tutorial Videos

Want a sneak peak at Photoshop CS6? Check out these videos--before they get pulled down. If you don't speak Spanish, you can get a good idea of the new features demoed just by watching...

How to Create Type on a Path using Photoshop [Video]

In this episode, A.J. demonstrates how to put type on a path in Photoshop...

ePublishing Community Bulletin 9 December 2011

Share-worthy epublishing and digital publishing community news, tutorials, articles, resources, and miscellany I’ve run across. Eric Schmidt: ‘Android will be bigger than iOS’ [Overly optimistic? You judge] At which point, everyone in the audience probably went back to their iPads… Keep reading ePublishing Community Bulletin 9 December 2011 on Pariah Burke Publishing & Design Consulting...

Awesome 3D Map Generator for Photoshop CS3+

Create your own 3D maps with only one click! Every shape is possible and delivers a professional result. Ideal for web graphics, infographics or presentations. Choose between three different directions (left, right or frontal). The tileable texture can be moved unlimited and the shadows and layers of earth are placed on single layers, so that...

Mixing Up Illustration: Combining Analog And Digital Techniques

In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits! Your hands are the original digital devices — Lynda Barry1 People often ask how I arrived at a finished illustration. Honestly, it’s different every time, but it always starts with a hand-drawn sketch. Sometimes, I paint it completely by hand; sometimes I’ll scan in a...

Adobe Proto Review: Prototype Websites on Android Tablets & iPad

Pros: Adobe’s new Proto touch app wins points for being fun, easy to use, and for making you look cool and up on the latest trends when you’re with clients. Cons: Although Proto is great for creating wireframes for small sites, it’s not going to replace more professional tools, such OmniGraffle or Microsoft Visio...

Quark Named to EContent’s List of Companies that Matter Most in Digital Content Industry

There are plenty of changes afoot on this year's list, as well as at the magazine. As you read through these pages, you'll notice a change in the EContent 100 categories--and a subsequent change in the companies we're honoring this year. As we focused less on enterprise content companies and more on the world of...

Save Big Photoshop Files 20X Faster with DisallowFlateCompressedPSD Plugin

Saving Photoshop files of size 1GB on up has long been a productivity-killing exercise, with really big files taking many minutes to save, because Photoshop has always insisted on doing single-threaded image compression when saving files. So it didn’t matter if you had a fast RAID capable of 1000 MB/sec— the Save ran at the...

40+ Best Adobe Fireworks Tutorials For Designers

To populate text input or textbox control when user selects combobox using jQuery. Easy solution with jQuery $(...