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So if you are a Creativetechs member client, watch your mailbox for this month’s latest green envelope. Read on for a list of all the headlines in the October 2008 issue.
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Is the air getting nippy? Are the days getting shorter? Are those rain clouds a little heavier? It must be October in Seattle.
Headlines — October 2008 Design Tools Monthly
NEWS:
- Adobe Creative Suite 4 to Ship in October
- Orphan Works Act “Hotlined” by U.S. Senate
- XML’s Chicken and Egg: More Chickens
- Konica Minolta Drops Film
- Survey of Stock Usage
BUG FIXES:
- HP Printer Driver 1.1.1
UPGRADES:
- New Features in Creative Suite 4
- StuffIt Deluxe 2009
HARDWARE:
- The Latest Mind-Blowing High Speed Camera Features
- ColorMunki Trade-Up Program
- 4x Speed Blu-ray Drives
SOFTWARE:
- Instant Flash Banner Ads
PLUG-INS:
- YouSendIt Plug-ins
- TypeFitter Pro
- CSS Sculptor
- Database Integration for InDesign or QuarkXPress
- Printer’s Spreads in QuarkXPress
- Instant Crop Marks & Color Bars in QuarkXPress
- Instant, Proper PDFs
- Flexography from QuarkXPress
- The Best Image Sharpener
WORTH READING:
- Creative Business
- The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book
- Grids for Designers
- SEO Guide for Designers
VIDEOS:
- Free On-Demand Webinars: Color for Creatives
- Quark Posts “New Features” Videos on YouTube
FONTS:
- Find Ornaments
- CS4 Has Different Fonts
- …from MyFonts.com
WEBSITES:
- An Awesome Map of Web Trends
- Chinese Olympic Pictograms
- Dear Adobe
- 40+ Tips to Improve Grammar and Punctuation
TIPS:
- 100 Photography Tips in 100 Days
- CopyPasteCharacter
- Tips for Preview
- Stock Maps
- Replace Scanners Every Two Years
- Acrobat 8 Converts Text to Interactive Form Fields — Even in Scans
- Resize Browser to Standard Sizes
- See CMYK PDF in RGB
- Drag to Insert Pages into PDFs
- Save Text from PDFs With Formatting
- Visually Adjust Color to Black and White
- Group Your Layers
- Sample Colors From Anywhere
- Reselect in Photoshop
- Crop Area: Just Click!
- Illustrator’s “Key Object”
- Change Phone Number Formats in InDesign
- Save Your Guides as Snippets
- Save All Open Documents in InDesign
- Make Multiple Frames the Same Height or Width
- Quickly Change Fonts in QuarkXPress
- Scale Multiple Items in QuarkXPress
- Edit Grouped Items in QuarkXPress
- QuarkXPress 8 Tip: The “Local Formatting” ToolTip
- Quark Posts “New Features” Videos on YouTube
- Copyright Issues for Designers
- Moodstream
- Free Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship
- Free Brushes for Photoshop
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Free Textures
SOFTWARE CLOSET ITEMS:
- Print Therapy 6.0.2
- Anxiety 1.0
- Commenteer 1.0
- MacTracker 5.0.4
- MenuMeters 1.3
- Silk Icons 1.3
- SimpleViewer iPhoto Plugin 1.0
- Smart Trash 1.1.3
- Tree Size 2.1
