Review by Eric Berkow

Oh, for the days when we didn’t need all this gadgetry! Way back in the day type was set by professional typesetters using giant machines, and color artwork was actually separated by taking several filtered pictures of the artwork to create actual film separations! Here in the digital age, accurate color reproduction is available to almost anyone with a computer! All you need are a few tools to make sure that your equipment is accurate.

If you are trying for accurate color reproduction, you need a good set of color management tools. The i1Photo XT is a good place to start for most photographers/designers. 

This color management package will calibrate and profile monitors, projectors, scanners, printers and digital cameras. Basically it can do everything a designer/photographer will need.

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Eye-Fi Inc., a company dedicated to helping people navigate, nurture and share their digital memories, today unveiled the Eye-Fi Card — the world’s first wireless SD memory card for digital cameras. The Eye-Fi Card uses home Wi-Fi networks to create an effortless and convenient way for users to send photographs directly from digital cameras to PCs, Macs and online photo and social networking sites. See release entitled “Eye-Fi Announces Support from Seventeen Online Photo Destinations.” Priced at $99.99 with 2GB of storage, the Eye-Fi Card is available now from major online retailers.

“Digital cameras have made it extremely easy to take pictures, but the rest of the process is a hassle,” said Jef Holove, chief executive officer of Eye-Fi. “The Eye-Fi Card removes the barriers and lets users get to the fun part of sharing and printing their memories. We’re putting the magic back into photography.”

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John Loiacono (aka Johnny L), the SVP of Adobe’s Creative Solutions group, is back! Join Johnny and the Production Premium team in the DVA lab at Adobe San Jose, as Johnny in his unique (never boring!) style talks with the team about what went into the CS3 release, customer reactions, surprises, how we stack up against the competition, and what’s hot right now including the new update that adds compatibility with Panasonic P2 cameras. A demo of the P2 update is also featured.

 

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“301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers”
Boston, MA, October 10, 2007 – Course Technology PTR, a division of Cengage Learning, announces today the release of “301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photographers,” a comprehensive, how-to guide to high-quality digital output that shows photographers of all levels how to make high-quality prints through detailed instructions and hundreds of full-color examples from more than 20 professional photographers and other artists.

Author Andrew Darlow, a veteran photographer, educator, and digital imaging consultant, collected his years of experience with digital and fine art photography and inkjet printing to write the book. “After using a variety of inkjet printers for more than ten years, I’m very happy to be able to share many of the tips and techniques I’ve been using to make exhibition, portfolio, and personal prints with others who share my passion for photography.”

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Hosted by Jeff Gamet and Jay Nelson of Design Tools Monthly.

Windows on Mac: Parallels vs. Fusion
Genopal: Color Palette Generator Updated
Text-Osterone: Easy Animated Text
SWF, Lock & Load: Easy Animated Flash Preloaders
Presentation for Copyright Education
Tip: Smooth Vector Graphics for Websites
Tip: Compare Any Two Documents
Tip: Photoshop Extracts Images from PDFs
Tip: Easy Contact Sheet
Thought Equity: Videos from NBC News
Sponsors: InDesign Magazine & PlanetQuark.com

 

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(Press Release)
In conjunction with the launch of Leopard, Take Control Books has announced that Leopard editions of five of their most popular electronic books are now available. Together, these ebooks help Mac users install Leopard successfully, customize its new and revamped features, share files more elegantly than was possible in Tiger, manage fonts effectively, and much more. The ebooks are available individually or in discounted bundles, and owners of previous editions receive a discount. Free samples and print versions are also available. Learn more at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/.

“Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard,” by Joe Kissell, shows readers the best ways to install, clean up after installation, troubleshoot problems, and even downgrade if necessary. 125 pages, $10
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/leopard-upgrading.html

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“Thermo” is an upcoming Adobe product that makes it easy for designers to create rich Internet application UIs. Thermo allows designers to build on familiar workflows to visually create working applications that easily flow into production and development.
Features

    * Use drawing tools to create original graphics, wireframe an application design, or manipulate artwork imported from Adobe Creative Suite tools.
    * Turn artwork from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks directly into functional components that use the original artwork as a “skin”.
    * Define and wire up interactive behavior, such as what to do when a user clicks on something, without having to write code.
    * Easily design UIs that work with dynamic data, such as a list of contacts or product information, without having access to the actual data source. Design-time sample data can be used as a realistic placeholder when laying out an application, testing interactivity, and choreographing motion.

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Peachpit announced ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional by Todd Perkins (ISBN 0-321-29390-8), a hands-on guide to ActionScript 3.0, complete with insider tips and color illustrations.

ActionScript 3.0 for Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training provides a comprehensive review of ActionScript’s features, from manipulating movie clips and responding to user actions with variables, to writing functions and conditional operators.

Readers will learn how to add ActionScript to the Timeline of Flash movies, develop scripts in external ActionScript files, add content dynamically, control the playback of movies, and more. A CD-ROM with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos accompanies the book.

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Offers Adobe Flex Builder 2 to Students and Faculty at No Cost

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it is offering Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 software at no cost to students and faculty at educational institutions worldwide. The Flex Builder 2 integrated development environment (IDE) is part of a powerful toolset for designing and developing rich Internet applications (RIAs), an essential part of Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 technologies have spurred the development of RIAs that enable data sharing, collaboration, user participation, social networking, and more. Flex is the industry’s most advanced framework for building cross-operating system RIAs for the Web. By offering Flex Builder 2 at no cost, educational institutions will be able to improve students’ and researchers’ knowledge of RIA development. With Flex 3, currently in public beta, students will be able to extend their RIAs to the desktop using Adobe® AIR™.

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The vulnerability affects Adobe Reader 8.1 and earlier, Adobe Reader 7.0.9 and earlier, and a handful of Adobe Acrobat Professional versions.

By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) on Monday released an update to fix a critical vulnerability its Reader and Acrobat software that could affect people running Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7.

The vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of the computer running the affected Adobe software. It was first disclosed September 20th and confirmed by Adobe on October 5th.

“A malicious file must be loaded in Adobe Reader or Acrobat by the end user for an attacker to exploit these vulnerabilities,” Adobe said. “This issue is remotely exploitable.”

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WebAssist Pro Maps for Google Makes Map Integration Simple for Adobe Dreamweaver Users
Pro Maps for Google enables developers and small business owners to easily integrate customized Google Maps that leverage address databases, traffic reporting, driving directions, and satellite view

(Press Release)
Thursday, October 25, 2007  

Today’s release of Pro Maps for Google™ from WebAssist brings the power and flexibility of Google Maps to an even broader audience by taking the complexity out of integrating Google Maps into web sites. Pro Maps for Google, an extension to Adobe Dreamweaver, makes it possible for database-driven and manually entered addresses to be displayed in a custom Google map on any website<without complicated coding.

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Design Guy, here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply.

Now, we’re talking about the creative process. And in earlier episodes, we discussed the preparation that precedes creativity, which namely takes the form of information gathering. In graphic design, there’s always a message at stake - one that we need to craft for an audience. So, we’re concerned early on with doing our homework. And once we’ve laid the groundwork for our project in this way, we’re ready to get creative. And, as we said last time, this can go well or poorly, depending on certain factors.

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Check out these fantastic guests on InsidemacRadio this week

Veescope Key with Brad Wright - Philip Hodgetts with the DPBuzz Weekly Mac post news - Chris Van Wingerden with dominKnow - Jackie Ballinger with Griffin - Andy Shalat with the Mac Design Out Of The Box Tip - Cindy Araujo with Macally

 

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OTTAWA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CREL; TSX: CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced Corel® Painter™ X has been honored with Technology & Learning’s 2007 Award of Excellence. Awarded annually for over 20 years, the Award of Excellence recognizes both the “best of the best” as well as creative new offerings that help educators in the business of teaching, training and managing with technology.

“Corel Painter X is part of a group of winning products honored because they reflect an impressive effort by publishers to respond to the real needs of schools,” said Susan McLester, editor-in-chief of Technology & Learning. “The offerings being honored are practical, innovative and central to a variety of district and site operations.”

Corel Painter X is the world’s most powerful natural media painting and illustration software, delivering a next-generation art studio that blurs the line between traditional and digital art like never before. Corel Painter X has become the industry standard for digital painting and illustration, with the introduction of unparalleled performance, new composition tools and the revolutionary RealBristle Painting System that provides an organic painting and illustration experience – right down to the individual bristles on the brush. Educators around the world are harnessing the power of Corel Painter to enhance the learning experience and provide students with the skills they need to succeed as leading creative professionals.

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X-Rite Completes Acquisition of Pantone
Expands portfolio of hardware, software, services and standards in the color industry

(Press Release)
Friday, October 26, 2007

 X-Rite, Incorporated (Nasdaq: XRIT) a leading provider of color solutions for measuring, formulating, matching, and simulating color, announced today it has completed the purchase of Pantone, Inc. for a purchase price of 180 million dollars. The transaction was funded exclusively with cash, financed through new borrowings.

Pantone, Inc., headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, is the worldwide market leader in color communication and specification standards in the creative design industries. Its flagship product, the PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM®, is the de-facto color standard in the graphic arts, printing, publishing and advertising industries. The company also provides color standards and design tools for the fashion, home furnishings, architecture, paint, interior and industrial design industries. Pantone generated revenues of approximately $42 million in 2006 with adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of approximately 27% of revenues.

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With OS X 10.5 Leopard’s hundreds of new features, we’ll be reading about different tweaks and hidden commands for months to come. Forums will be awash with what’s the most useful, what’s the most useless applications and innovations. I must say that one of the most important updates I see coming is with iChat. Now I know most of us use iChat as a social thing, and the majority of us don’t leverage its instantaneous file transfers and quick response via voice, video or text, as much as I think we should. I use it for soft proofing with almost all of my clients, sending files, working through the comping process with designs, and text process with articles. I’m looking forward to being able to consult freely using my desktop instead of  my image, sharing desktops, changing backgrounds so that I can look like I’m on vacation rather than sitting glumly at my desk. Or perhaps the other way around. iChat, if you haven’t read yet, will add a plethora of new features in itself, that will make it a contender for your computing and business time. Blue screen, sharing desktop, showing videos, all these things that can help save us time as we design, and get approval on work. t will probably generate a whole new level of online adult entertainment as well. And that, as we all know, is what really drives technology.

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Adobe Acrobat 8
Adobe® Acrobat® 8 is the premier PDF (Portable Document Format) creation and authoring tool that enables users and workgroups to easily create, manipulate, and re-purpose intelligent PDF documents for web, print, online collaboration, data collection and more. In this VTC course, Author Eric Butow demonstrates how to use Acrobat 8 by starting with the basic functions such as the getting started wizard, quick tasks, converting an existing file to PDF format, and setting Acrobat preferences. He then moves on to more advanced topics including editing PDF files, distributing PDF files, collaborating with other users within Acrobat, and collecting data from PDF forms. Instruction is applicable to both Acrobat 8 and Acrobat 8 Professional. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the Adobe Acrobat 8 movie links.
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Introduction


About this CD

New in Acrobat 8

Overview of Acrobat 8

Getting Started

Creating a PDF Document from a File

Close an Open PDF File

Viewing the Getting Started Wizard


The Main Wizard Window

Create a PDF File

Combine Files into One PDF File

Export PDF Files

Start a Meeting

Secure Your PDF Files

Sign a PDF Document

Create a PDF Form

Review and Add Comments to a PDF File

Close and Reopen the Wizard

Using Acrobat


The Acrobat Window

The Menu Bar

The Top Toolbar

The Bottom Toolbar

View Navigation Panels

Display and Snap to the Grid and Rulers

Go to a Specific Page

Read Out Loud

Display and Switch Between Open PDF Files

Get Assistance and Support

Check for Updates

Customizing Acrobat


Opening the Preferences Window

Commenting

Documents

Full Screen

Basic Tools

Page Display

3D Settings

Accessibility

Batch Processing

Catalog

Color Management

Convert from PDF

Convert to PDF

Forms

Identity

International

Internet

JavaScript

Measuring (2D)

Measuring (3D)

Meeting

Multimedia

Multimedia Trust

New Document

Online Services

Reading

Reviewing

Search

Security

Spelling

TouchUp

Trust Manager

Units and Guides

Web Capture

Creating a PDF Document


The Creation Process

Create from a File

Create from Multiple Files

Create from a Web Page

Create from a Scanner

Create from a Clipboard Image

Add Files into a PDF Package

Saving Your PDF File

PDF Document Security


Security Overview

Security Properties

Create a Digital ID

Configuring Servers

Manage Security Policies

Edit Security Policies

Create a Security Policy

Create a Security Envelope

Place a Signature

Create a Certified File

Preview the File

Enable Usage Rights in Adobe Reader

Create and Edit a PDF Form


Create a PDF Form from a Template

Save the PDF Form

Open and Edit the Form

Manage Form Data

Compile Forms

Distribute Forms

Track Forms

Edit a PDF File


Open a PDF File

Comment and Markup Tools

Advanced Editing Tools

Editing Text

Use the Typewriter

Add a Watermark

Insert Pages

Extract Pages

Replace Pages

Delete Pages

Crop Pages

Rotate Pages

Create a New Bookmark

Attach a File to the PDF File

Highlight and Stamps

Using the Measuring Toolbar

Add Comments


Add a Comment

Edit and Delete Comments

Show and Hide Comments

Show the Comments List

Summarize Comments

Print Comments Summary

Import and Export Comments

Produce and Track a PDF File


Previewing Your Output

Preflight Check

Check for Accessibility

Enable Commenting in Adobe Reader

Prepare a Batch Sequence

Process Links and Numbering

Set JavaScript Document Actions

Optimize Your PDF File

Examine the PDF File

Print a PDF File

Export a PDF File

Send a PDF File by E-Mail

Use the Review Tracker

Course Wrap Up


Conclusion

About this Author

Award-Winning Duo Joins Esteemed Group of Online Training Library Authors with Five New Training Courses

lynda.com, the leader in self-paced digital media and design training, today announced the publication of five new video training courses. These courses were created and produced by the acclaimed After Effects expert team of Chris and Trish Meyer/CyberMotion, and include: Hot Looks Using Floating Point in After Effects, Learning the After Effects Glow Plug-In, Lighting Tricks in After Effects, Understanding Fields & Interlacing in After Effects, and Working with 3:2 Pulldown in After Effects.

Chris and Trish are principles at CyberMotion, the award-winning motion graphics studio, and the authors of many After Effects books. They have created incredible imagery for NBC, ABC, HBO, Fox, TLC, New Line, and Paramount, plus corporations ranging from Apple to Xerox. The Meyers often speak at events around the country on the subjects of After Effects and motion graphics. They are the authors of the book After Effects Apprentice (Focal Press) and the “Motion Graphics” column for DV magazine.

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