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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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Written by Judith

March 20, 2008 at 6:18 am

Start a DTP or Graphic Design Business 2. Skills Assessment

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Lesson Two
The Design Side of Freelance Design

It’s not unreasonable to believe that a person thinking of starting a desktop publishing business is doing so because they already do some kind of design work (either as part of their job or for personal projects) and want to make money doing something they enjoy. But that’s not always the case so let’s assess your current design and desktop publishing expertise with these quizzes.
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/freelance/a/design_skills.htm

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