Designers to present their visions of Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications in competition for an extensive prize chest. All entries to be compiled into a free library of alternate CS3 icons.

To unthread text frames without deleting the frames themselves, double-click the out port on the first frame (or the last frame you want to remain threaded in the story). The story will roll back into that frame (most likely oversetting the text), while all subsequent frames will unthread, leaving them empty and ready to receive…

Graphic Designers! Illustrators! Interface Designers! Fans of creative software! Now that Adobe has shown how it sees Adobe applications, Quark VS InDesign.com is asking you to show how you see your favorite tools, to communicate your vision in the unique and challenging art form of icon canvases. The best three sets of CS3 application icons…

Just need to quickly create a new document using the default options? Press CMD+OPT+N/CTRL+ALT+N. Start typing. New document, no dialog.

Extensis improves Windows-based font management and adds Microsoft Vista compatibility.

In Photoshop, Select > Color Range allows you to create a selection based on sampled colors. In the Color Range window you see a greyscale preview indicating the level of selection–which is fully selected, black not selected, and tones betwee partially selected. Below the small preview are radio buttons to toggle between the selection and…