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Choices for digital printing

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Whenever you are in position to decide what digital output technique to use, for printing your banners, or large scale advertisments, read through this article, just to make sure you understand the difference between Solvent or Water-based, Eco-Solvent and Media for printing. Read more.

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Color Scheme Generator

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

This handy tool will help you to choose your color scheme while designing web pages. It's simple user interface and advanced programming in javascript makes it very accessible and fine-working piece, that you must have in your favorites. You can choose from color mode: Mono, Contrast, Triad, Tetrad, and Analogic, and see that colors already in action, as their code in hexadecimal. You can also see how your choosen colors will ...

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Adobe Indesign Tips and tricks

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Learn all those nice tips and tricks you will ever need in Adobe Indesign. No matter if you are power user or just a newbie, these tutorials and tricks will give you all the knowledge you need to make your designs fast and without too much trouble. AdobeEvangelists.com is one of the places where many stuff related to Adobe software is discovered, if you are into learning Adobe software, you ...

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RGB to CMYK conversion

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Did you ever asked yourself what is going on when you convert image from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop, or some other image editing software? One of the main operations of prepress is that conversion in process of preparation for printing. For this specific conversions image editing programs are using software structure called a lookup table. This article describes the rationale behind lookup tables, and why they are ...

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onOne soft. buys plugins from Extensis

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Independent software developer, onOne Software, Inc. today announced the launch of their new company with the acquisition of several popular productivity enhancement products for Photoshop and QuarkXPress from Celartem, Inc. companies Extensis and LizardTech. Products included in this purchase are pxl SmartScale, PhotoFrame, Intellihance Pro, Mask Pro, PhotoTools, and QX-Tools Pro from Extensis and the Genuine Fractals product line from LizardTech. For "us" - users, this mean that even better plugins will be ...

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Paper specifications

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

Tear a sheet of paper vertically, first, then horizontally. Which tear was straighter? This is a quick, simple test for grain direction, a paper property that indicates which way fibers lined up on the paper machine during manufacturing. The straighter tear will tell you if itÃ¢Â€Â™s grain long or grain short. A third simple test involves folding and is, perhaps, the biggest reason why designers should take time to learn about this important paper property. ...

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