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Final Cut Pro X Review: First impressions

I’m in love… With Final Cut X If not in love, let’s just say I’m infatuated… I’ve forced myself to edit using Final Cut Pro X pretty much around the clock for the past 72 hours. At first it was … Continue reading

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Photoshop CS6 New Features Review beta – Part 3

This is Part 3 of the Photoshop CS6 Review of new features. If you missed the earlier posts, you’ll find them here: Photoshop CS6 New Features Review Part 1 and Photoshop CS6 New Features Review Part 2. Layer panel improvements … Continue reading

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Photoshop CS6 New Features Review beta – Part 2

This is Part 2 of the Photoshop CS6 Review of new features. If you missed the first part, you’ll find it here: Photoshop CS6 New Features Review Part 1. New content-aware tools In previous versions, you were able to take … Continue reading

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Photoshop CS6 New Features Review beta

Adobe released a public beta of Adobe Photoshop CS6 today and Photoshop expert and author Jennifer Smith from AGI has created an overview of her favorite new features. Use the Photoshop CS6 tutorial to discover the key new features in … Continue reading

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Join us at cre8 and gain valuable new skills!

Attend the crē8 seminars at Graphics of the Americas in Miami from March 1-3, 2012 to gain new skills, improve your career and see how creative professions are evolving. Additionally, you’ll learn from innovative leaders, design and technology experts, and … Continue reading

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eBooks Evolve: Support for HTML5 and CSS3 Growing

Amazon has announced forthcoming support for HTML5, CSS3 and more graphically rich-documents that will display on their color Kindle Fire e-reader. Support for these new capabilities on the Kindle will come as part of a new Kindle Format 8 (KF8) that should … Continue reading

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Convert QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 9 + 10

Continued… Step Nine: Import Graphics Graphics can be placed into your InDesign template using the Place command. If the image you’re importing contains layers (as in a .PSD or .AI file), you can choose which layers are visible on import. … Continue reading

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Convert QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 7 + 8

Continued.. Step Seven: Create New Master Pages Central to the template conversion process is the rebuilding of InDesign Master Pages to match those in the existing Quark template. Like Colors and Styles, InDesign can load Master Pages from other InDesign … Continue reading

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Converting QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 5 + 6

Continued.. Step Five: Build Colors Since you cannot import color palettes from a Quark document into an InDesign file, you’ll need to rebuild all CMYK and Pantone colors used with InDesign’s Swatches panel. Thankfully, you’ll only have to do this … Continue reading

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Converting QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 3 + 4

Continued.. Step Three: Create a New Document in Adobe InDesign To convert your templates from Quark to InDesign, you’ll have to essentially recreate the template pages in InDesign. Page creation begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up … Continue reading

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