Expand Your Web Design Font Choices, Part 1

They say that limiting your options can lead to creative solutions. This is certainly true for Web designers and typography. Since the beginning of the Web, our typographic choices have been limited by the fonts available on other people's computers. The so-called "Web safe" fonts - Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Courier, Verdana, Georgia, and a few others - have dominated Web site typography because we can't always be sure that the person on the other end of the Web brow

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Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes (or Just Take Ours)

Why should we limit the fun in Adobe Photoshop to the digital world? You can combine old-school art with digital darkroom techniques to create Photoshop brushes for painting and masking. By painting on actual paper first, you'll create original Photoshop brushes that look more authentic than purely digital art. Then you'll vary size, angle, and hue of the brushes in Photoshop, and use them for painting and for masking parts of existing artwork.Step 1read more

Make Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign Get Along

This article is excerpted from the April/May 2010 issue of InDesign Magazine (#34). Subscribe to InDesign Magazine.Microsoft Word is the de facto standard word processor. That means that the majority of the text for our layouts arrives in the form of Word documents. Ugh!Still, with a little knowledge and a decent strategy, importing and styling copy from Word needn’t be arduous or tedious. I’ll show you how to be productive despite the software.

Turn a Photo Into a Drawing in Photoshop

In this example of turning a photograph into a drawing, professional artist and Photoshop expert Bert Monroy shows you how to make a photograph look like a hand-drawn image on canvas. First, you'll open a portrait in Photoshop and turn the entire image into a pattern (Select > All, Edit > Define Pattern). You'll duplicate the image in a new layer, then apply the Find Edges filter (Filter > Stylize). read more

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A little typographic experiment.

Test and Fix Web Browser Compatibility Issues Inside Dreamweaver

This video excerpt is from Bring Your Web Design to Life: Creating Rich Media Websites with Adobe Creative Suite. Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and Peachpit Press.read more