Graphics Software
In the Spotlight
How To Fix Red Eye with Picasa
Picasa is a popular free digital photo organizer from Google. It includes a tool for red eye removal that helps you quickly remove the glowing red pupils from your snapshot photos.
Decorating Easter Eggs in Illustrator
Sara Froehlich shows you how to make Easter eggs in Adobe Illustrator — from drawing and coloring them, to dividing them using the pathfinder palette and using brush strokes and symbols to decorate them.
Graphics Challenge: Think Spring!
Still caught in the clutches of Winter? Can’t wait for Robins to return and the Crocus to poke through the ground? Well then it’s time to Think Spring! This week’s challenge is to create your image of Spring.
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Desktop Publishing: Making Envelopes
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Kreate-a-Lope Envelope Kit
After designing and printing a fabulous greeting card or photo card, why stick it in a generic envelope? This kits makes it easy to create a perfectly sized envelope using all kinds of great papers.
Parts of an Envelope
Did you know that envelopes have throats and shoulders? Learn more about these parts as well as folds, seams, and flaps.
Envelope Styles and Dimensions
Announcement, Baronial, Booklet, Catalog, Commerical, and Square Envelopes come in many standard sizes.
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- No Bitmap Photos, Please
BMP, Perhaps? - Setting Up File for Perfect Bind
Discuss It! - Character Style Problem in QuarkXPress
Can You Help? - Framemaker Bullet Problem
Any FM Experts?
Daily Web Design Class: Fonts
What is a Font?
If you know the five families of fonts on the Web, you can use the one that will get your point across more clearly.
Podcasting
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Review of Audacity Audio Editor
My review of Audacity, the free, cross platform audio editor has been posted. Audacity is great choice for people getting started with podcasting on a budget (or without one!)…read more
The Danger of Doing a Top Software Picks List
Some people have asked me about not having Adobe Audition on the list. Honestly, I haven’t looked at Audition in a while. There is such an array of…read more
Adjusting Audio Levels with The Levelator
The Levelator is an interesting (and free) software that adjusts the audio levels within a podcast for volume differences between the host and guests. You used to have to go into…read more
Free HTML Forms Class: Lesson 3 – CGI Scripted Forms
Use Ready Made CGIs
Guestbooks
Before you start building your own forms, it’s a good idea to learn the basics with something like a guestbook. They are useful, and if you look at the source code of the HTML you can get a better sense of how forms work.
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Cascading Style Sheets Tip of the Day Class Versus ID
Class versus ID
Understanding when to use class and when to use ID is crucial to writing good XHTML documents.
Spending Time With God (7 Days) – Spending Time With God – Part III
Day Three – Lesson
The Requirements of Spending Time With God – Continued
Making time for God and then persevering in your commitment are vital steps to developing a devotional life.
Daily e-Devotions: Day 3 – Lonliness
Day 3 – Loneliness
Loneliness: Toothache of the Soul
Loneliness is one of life’s most miserable experiences. Everyone feels lonely at times, but is there a message for us in loneliness? Is there a way we can turn it into something positive? Never married, Jack Zavada understands how single life can be difficult, especially when dealing with loneliness. He believes that Jesus, who also never married, offers understanding and compassion for the unique feelings of loneliness and frustration that singles often experience. Read more…
The 12 Days of Christmas – Daily Devotionals – Wonderful Impossibilities – Day Three
Day Three
Wonderful Impossibilities
“When God intends to make something wonderful he begins with a difficulty. When he intends to make something very wonderful, he begins with an impossibility.”
– Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Coggan
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