Creative Community Bulletin 24 September 2013

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • 54 Portrait Ideas: free down­load­able pos­ing guide

    Are you stuck for por­trait ideas? Sometimes we’ve found that you can over-think these things. When you put so much thought into back­drops and colour schemes and fol­low­ing oth­ers’ por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy tips, you can over­look some of the fun­da­men­tals of por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy, such as your subject’s pose. We believe our pos­ing guide below should help!”

  • Commenting on Videos Embedded in PDFs in Acrobat
    “This video shows you how to add com­ments and markups direct­ly on to embed­ded video with­in PDF”

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  • Five Ways to Save Serious Money on Car Repairs
    “If you dri­ve, there’s prob­a­bly lit­tle you hate more than get­ting your car repaired. It’s usu­al­ly an expen­sive, time-consuming has­sle no one looks for­ward to. Even so, it does­n’t have to be so bad. Here are some sol­id ways to save as much money…
  • How Delta Airlines Is Cheating Some of Its Loyal Customers

    Earlier this year, Delta, “the world’s largest air­line,” proud­ly announced a part­ner­ship with the Canadian air­line WestJet. Its press release tout­ed the ben­e­fits that this new pair­ing would deliv­er to cus­tomers trav­el­ling between the United States and Canada. The union would offer more flights to more des­ti­na­tions across both countries.”

  • Adobe’s John Nack: Flash is Out, HTML5 Is In for Exending Creative Cloud Apps

    Flash will be out & HTML5 is in as the cross-app, cross-platform foun­da­tion for extend­ing Creative Cloud apps: ”

  • Writing Microcopy to Improve Your Interface #UX #UI
    “The fastest way to improve your inter­face is to improve your copy-writing.”
  • The 3 Future Waves In Design, And How To Ride Them
    “TODAY’S DESIGNERS HAVE TO BE MORE THAN SURFACE DECORATORS, WRITES MARK ROLSTON. THEY NEED TO BECOME SYSTEMS DESIGNERS.”
  • Top 10 Secret Features of iOS 7
    “Apple released iOS 7 to the pub­lic this week, pro­vid­ing a new design and a hand­ful of cool fea­tures to iPhone- and iPad-lovers every­where, but some of the best stuff lurks beneath the sur­face. Apple failed to adver­tise quite a few awe­some feat…