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In addition to training and consulting, seminar tours and Webinars, I am a prolific author in the creative and production professional spaces. I’ve authored or co-authored quite a few books and written somewhere north of 250 tutorials and articles published in many of the most respected industry magazines and Websites. Below are some of my recent articles

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Free For All: I Can't Believe They Give This Away!

Are you look­ing for a fast, free way to resize a bunch of images? How about free tem­plates for CDs and DVDs? Or free vec­tor art? Could you use a designer-friendly dia­gram­ming and flow­chart­ing appli­ca­tion? Then this, my friend, is the arti­cle for you.

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Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!

There’s some­thing for every­one this month: design­ers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; type lovers; busi­ness own­ers; and peo­ple who just want to com­press the heck out of online images.

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Free For All: The Best Things In Life

What do you feel like? Textures? Illustrator brushes? A Photoshop brush viewer? Free faxes? Or how about a util­ity that never for­gets? Why not take ‘em all — they’re free!

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Free For All: 103 Free Fonts!

Script fonts, mod­ern fonts, grunge fonts, funky fonts — what’s your plea­sure? We have them all, and they’re all free!

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Free For All: Put Away Your Wallet

Convert files, change your wall­pa­per, get things done, restore miss­ing Photoshop fea­tures, and try fonts. As always, they’re all free.

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New Xtension Finally Brings AutoCorrect & Dynamic Spellcheck to QuarkXPress 8

Microsoft Word-like auto­matic under­lin­ing of mis­spelled words and auto­matic replace­ment of typos and user-defined terms finally comes to QuarkXPress with new low-priced xtension.

Adobe InDesign CS4 Family Drives Personalized Publishing for Historic Print on Demand Book, The Obama Time Capsule

Adobe Technology Integrated into HP Print-on-Demand Platform

Free QuarkXPress to InDesign CS4 Conversion Guide

Free 58-page ebook from Adobe helps you plan a migra­tion and smooth your tran­si­tion from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS4.

Quark Applies New Math to Old Problems

Quark Encourages Customers to Make QuarkXPress 3+4+5 Equal 8 Before September 30

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Now Shipping

Milestone Release Radically Improves Creative Workflow Efficiency; Redefines Collaboration Between Designers and Developers

SoftCare has Turned Into vjoon

The Hamburg-based devel­oper showed its pub­lish­ing plat­form K4 6.0, designed for Adobe CS4, at its 4th International User Conference. The first pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tion will take place at IFRA Expo in Amsterdam.

300+ Free Halloween Fonts

In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Quark VS InDesign​.com scoured the globe, peek­ing into every dark cor­ner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free fonts–living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–and…

InDesign CS4: Top 10 New Features

Our favorite new fea­tures in InDesign CS4.

ex EPSCreator

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in…

Smart Speller for InDesign

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in…

New Spring 2009 Colors Debut; Download Exclusive Swatches Palette

As New York Fashion Week begins, Pantone once again releases the 10 hottest col­ors for the upcom­ing sea­son. Download exclu­sive ready-to-use palettes of the Spring 2009 colors.

ProScale ID

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in…

ProScale 7 for QX 6 & 7

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in…

Notice to Public Relations Firms

New Quark VS InDesign​.com pol­icy is fair warn­ing to pub­lic rela­tions firms too igno­rant, lazy, or greedy to do their jobs.

autofillPDF-Labels 1.0, Productivity Shortcut for Printing Labels/Business Cards in seconds

Worldlabel​.com has released autofillPDF-labels, a col­lec­tion of tem­plates for print­ing labels.

Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers DVD (for InDesign Users)

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in…

Photoshop CS3 for Digital Photographers DVD (for Quark Users)

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes—an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in…

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