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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: Harvest These Freebies

Summer has offi­cially given way to fall, and in the north­ern hemi­sphere, that means it’s har­vest time. Fill your bas­ket with this delec­table sam­pling of free tools, fonts, and services.

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Free For All: Halloween Edition

Halloween in August? It’s not too early to start think­ing spooky, espe­cially if you’ll be send­ing out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.

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Free For All: Just What You're Looking For

Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame tex­tures and back­grounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy sched­uled emails; and a ser­vice that dis­plays a Web design in 90 dif­fer­ent browsers.

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InDesign How-to: Fill Type with Artwork

Last week, we showed you how to fill text with images in QuarkXPress. This week, it’s InDesign’s turn.

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Photoshop and InDesign: So Happy Together

InDesign CS2 lets you turn lay­ers and layer comps in a Photoshop image on and off. So what? So plenty! Here’s how to use this capa­bil­ity to increase your pro­duc­tion, lay­out, proof­ing, and file-management efficiency.

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Quark How-To: Fill Type with Artwork in QuarkXPress

How would you fill type with art­work or imagery? Would you do it in Photoshop or Illustrator? If the artwork-filled type is going to end up in a QuarkXPress lay­out, why worry about trans­parency, clip­ping path, or image pre­view issues? Instead, you can fill the type directly within XPress.

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Gift Guide 2005, Part II

Still search­ing for that per­fect gift? Then check out this, the sec­ond install­ment of our annual parade of presents.

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Gift Guide 2005

Ah, the hol­i­days. Time for love, laugh­ter, friends, fam­ily, and the fran­tic search for a present that pleases the recip­i­ent while it shows how cool you are. Relax! In this, part 1 of our annual gift guide, we rec­om­mend gifts every cre­ative pro (even you!) will love.

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Get Your Photoshop On -- Inside InDesign!

InDesign CS3’s new Effects panel gives you unprece­dented artis­tic options. Find out how to make the most of them, and get a spe­cial dis­count on InDesign Magazine.

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Git Along, Li'l PDF: How to Stamp Proofs with Your Own Brand

Acrobat’s Stamp tool can pre­vent a lot of con­fu­sion if you use it for things like explain­ing Lorem Ipsum place­holder text and FPO images on client proofs. But rather than set­tling for Acrobat’s generic stamps, you can cre­ate your own. Yeehaw!

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Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know

These free resources help you man­age your busi­ness, store files, find stock images that aren’t copy­righted, explore color, and more.

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Use Any Font in a Web Site Design

There have always been two cer­tain­ties in Web design: You can never have enough band­width, and all Web design must rely entirely on fonts installed on the viewer’s com­puter. But thanks to sIFR, at least one of these so-called inescapable cer­tain­ties is wrong.

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Create Web Animations in Photoshop CS3

Animate ban­ner ad and graphic objects; trans­form their shape, size, color; or replace them entirely.

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Ten (More!) Free Online Tools for Designers

Ten more free resources help you find and land clients; set your hourly rate; man­age project proof­ing and sig­noff; find com­pany logos; and more.

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Free For All: And So It Begins

Take your pick of Photoshop brushes and fonts you’ll love, t-shirt design tem­plates, and a portable pass­word man­ager. They’re all free!

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Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies

In this month’s roundup of online bar­gains, we high­light Photoshop brushes, back-up soft­ware, an hourly rate esti­ma­tor, a Photoshop plug-in to cre­ate fav­i­cons, and a seven-font type fam­ily. And of course, they’re all free!

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Create Dynamic Cast Shadows in InDesign

Follow the lead of a hard-boiled pri­vate design inves­ti­ga­tor as he solves the mys­tery of InDesign’s miss­ing cast shadow.

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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: 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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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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