Design Tools Weekly

August 4, 2008

Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Jeff

Pantone-Colored Flash Drives
Brother’s $299 11×17 Color Printer, Scanner, Copier, Fax
The Best Type Book Creator: Veenix TypeBook Creator
Free Tutorials on Color Composition from MasterColors
Tips:
• Acrobat’s Powerful Contextual Menus
• Quick-Select Fields
• Change the Grid in InDesign
• Change & Add Keyboard Shortcuts in QuarkXPress: LiveKeys
• Easily See "Registration" Color
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Jeff

AIGA | Aquent 2008 Salary Survey and Calculator
Open XML Converter for Office 2004
PDF 1.7 Released as ISO Standard
Adobe Acrobat 9 - Review on PlanetPDF
What’s a PDF Portfolio? Donna Baker’s overview
Tips:
• Why You Can’t Screen Back a CMYK Conversion of a Pantone Color
• Tintbooks
• Color-Code Your Layers
• How to Create Dotted Tab Leaders
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Jeff

Acrobat.com: Free Public Beta
Adobe’s PDF Print Engine, version 2
Adobe Flash Player 10
Adobe Reader 9
QuarkXPress 8 New Features
QuarkXPress 8: More Than 3x Faster
QuarkXPress 8 Road Show
Buy Version 7 XTensions, Get Version 8 Free: ThePowerXChange, XChange Int’l
Tips:
• Easily Copy Colors & Styles Between Documents
• Clear Overrides in Multiple Paragraphs
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jeff

Jeff & Jay take the week off to enjoy summer. See you next week!
Sponsors:
Solar energy

Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jeff

We Love Ron & Joe
Profolio: Beautiful, Affordable Presentations
Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 (Voices That Matter)
History: Photoshop-style Undo for InDesign
Find a Digital Printer
The Freelance Designer’s Self-Marketing Handbook
Tips:
• Raw File Insurance
• Photoshop’s Image Processor
• Reverse Arrowheads
• Merge Union in QuarkXPress
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Jeff

Adobe AIR
AIR Essential Training
Visual Basic Returning to Office for the Mac
CSA Images: Authentic American Illustrations
InPreflight: Simple Preflight for InDesign
TextExpander & Typinator
QuarkCopyDesk: Quark’s Word Processor
Freelancers Union: Help for Freelancers
Tips:
• Power Shortcuts for Coloring Objects in InDesign

• Name CMYK Images CMYK
• Smoother Blends & Drop Shadows in PDFs
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jeff

Tapestry: Holographic Data Storage
Braincast
SiteGrinder: Web Pages from Photoshop Layers
Phantasm: Amazing Color Adjustments in Illustrator
Copyscape: Who’s Ripping Off Your Website Content?
Pricing & Ethical Guidelines
Tips:
• Live Color in Illustrator
• Select Objects Quickly in Photoshop
• Create a Preflight Droplet
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Jeff

No More Kinko’s
Public Betas of CS4: Dreamweaver, Fireworks & Soundbooth
• Free training on CS4 at Lynda.com
Buy QuarkXPress 7 Now
• Getting Started Video for QuarkXPress 7
Uncoated GoeGuide Now Available
• Pantone’s Goe white paper
onOne’s Esssentials 2: Professionally Fix Photos in iPhoto
Page Exporter: Export InDesign Layers and Pages as Separate Files
ClipArtConnection: Instant, Affordable Clip Art
Tips:
• Align to Artboard?
• Adjust Word Spacing
• Synchronize Color Settings from Bridge
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, PrintBuyersOnline.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com

Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Jeff

Electronic In-Out Board
$3 Custom Mousepads
New Drivers for Old Scanners: VueScan & SilverFast
Book: GREP in InDesign CS3
I Love Typography website
Tips:
• PDF Blacks Not Black Enough?
• Drag Effects from Object to Stroke or Fill
• Create Partial Opacity & Fill Empty Pixels
• Inline Graphics, Outside the Box
Sponsors:
CreativePro.com, InDesignSecrets.com & PlanetQuark.com