Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition

First Place Prizes

As the first place win­ner in the “Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition,” Kimberly Smith of the United States will receive cour­tesy of their man­u­fac­tur­ers and Quark VS InDesign​.com the fol­low­ing prizes, a com­bined val­ue of more than US$4,000.

Click here to see Kimberly’s win­ning icon designs and down­load them to your computer.

1 of UtilityBelt 3
Courtesy of Andromeda Software, Inc. 

UtilityBelt is Andromeda’s most ver­sa­tile plug-in col­lec­tion for InDesign. Andromeda is ded­i­cat­ed to mak­ing InDesign quick­er and eas­i­er to use than ever before. With the three UtilityBelt plug-ins: CTBar, TypeEffects, and the lat­est addi­tion, ChartMaker, you can spend more time on the stuff that matters.

1 of Total Training’s Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium Bundle 2.3
Courtesy of Total Training

Photoshop’s Hall of Famer, Deke McClelland, will demon­strate tech­niques for the most feature-rich ver­sions of Photoshop® CS2 and Illustrator® CS2 yet. Adobe cer­ti­fied expert, Steve Holmes, will walk you through all the fea­tures of InDesign CS2 includ­ing design, typog­ra­phy, and lay­out skills. Plus, best sell­ing author Janine Warner will show you how to add video and oth­er multi-media into your web­site using Dreamweaver 8 and indus­try pro, Tim Plumer Jr. will show you the secrets of Adobe’s newest ver­sion of Acrobat 8. 102 hours of amaz­ing video training!

Included in the bun­dle:
Total Training for Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS2
Total Training for Adobe InDesign CS2
Total Training for Adobe GoLive CS2
Total Training for Adobe Photoshop CS2
Total Training for Dreamweaver 8
Total Training Presents: Adobe Creative Suite 2 â€” From Design to Delivery

1 of The Design Box Brochure Design Cards
Courtesy of StockLayouts LLC

The Design Box Brochure Design Cards is a handy, first-of-a-kind card deck of 50 professionally-designed brochure lay­outs. It pro­vides hun­dreds of ideas for design­ing mar­ket­ing pieces for a diverse vari­ety of busi­ness types. Beautifully pre­sent­ed in a slide-out box, these at-a-glance cards can be used to help dial in client pref­er­ences, or as a design resource for the office or stu­dio. Intended to serve as inspi­ra­tion for devel­op­ing prac­ti­cal, real-world mar­ket­ing pieces, the full-color designs are cre­at­ed in tra­di­tion­al page sizes. With attention-grabbing copy, com­pelling col­or palettes, mas­ter­ful use of typog­ra­phy, and numer­ous orig­i­nal design styles to choose from, this card deck is an afford­able source of new design ideas.

1 of Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign)
Courtesy of Markzware

Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign) offers users a quick and easy way to con­vert QuarkXPress con­tent into a new Adobe InDesign doc­u­ment. Conversion is enabled with a sin­gle click using InDesign’s File > Open. The major­i­ty of the intri­cate details of the doc­u­ment are instant­ly re-created with­in InDesign.

1 of PrintPro 2.0
Courtesy of HumanEyes Technologies
HumanEyes PrintPro 2.0 is a high-quality, easy-to-use 3D cre­ation and pro­duc­tion appli­ca­tion devel­oped for design­ers, pho­tog­ra­phers, ad agen­cies, brand own­ers and print­ers. The fastest and eas­i­est 2D to 3D con­ver­sion avail­able is the chief fea­ture addi­tion to PrintPro 2.0. New Timeline allows users to pre­cise­ly con­trol the com­po­si­tion of their cre­ation. They get real time feed­back, view progress and changes in each frame, and then choose the views they wish to have in their final output.

1 of Power Retouche Photoshop Plugins 7.0
Courtesy of Power Retouche

Power Retouche is a com­pre­hen­sive pack of Photoshop Plugins for retouch­ing, that speed up pro­duc­tiv­i­ty as well as add more func­tions and give high­er qual­i­ty than exist­ing technology

1 of Portfolio 8
Courtesy of Extensis

Your cre­ative assets are too valu­able to be dis­pos­able. Preserve your work with Portfolio 8. Surprisingly afford­able, Portfolio quick­ly han­dles the tasks of locat­ing, orga­niz­ing, archiv­ing and pub­lish­ing your dig­i­tal work. From Web to print, from comps to fin­ished work—Portfolio’s database-backed cat­a­logs equip you with the pow­er to effort­less­ly find, pre­view, and repur­pose files both online and off-line

1 of PageControl for InDesign CS/CS2 1.0
Courtesy of Quark VS InDesign​.com

Introducing Page Control for InDesign CS and InDesign CS2, the first col­lab­o­ra­tion between DTP Tools and Pariah S. Burke. With Page Control, your InDesign doc­u­ments are no longer lim­it­ed to a sin­gle page size. Inserts and fold­outs can be cre­at­ed with­out kludgy workarounds involv­ing mul­ti­ple doc­u­ments, the book palette, or extra impo­si­tion work. 

Resize an entire spread or the left and right pages inde­pen­dent­ly. Build and apply mas­ter pages of dif­fer­ent sizes. Expand the paste­board for more work­ing room. All from InDesign’s own Pages palette. And, the free read­er plug-in means nev­er wor­ry­ing about com­pat­i­bil­i­ty with ser­vice providers. Take con­trol of your pages with Page Control for InDesign CS and CS2

1 of Magma Effects 1
Courtesy of RogueSheep

Magma Effects allows you to apply a vari­ety of image-enhancement and styl­iz­ing effects direct­ly to any bitmap image placed in Adobe InDesign. Enhance pho­tos with col­or adjust­ments, sharp­en­ing or white point adjust­ment. Apply spe­cial effects such as star-shines and zoom-blurs or glass dis­tor­tion. Make your images stand out with style by apply­ing spot­light, bloom or shad­ed mate­r­i­al effects. All with­out leav­ing Adobe InDesign for anoth­er application.

1 of LinkOptimizer 2.0
Courtesy of Zevrix Solutions

LinkOptimizer will help you save valu­able stor­age space, time and reduce pro­duc­tion costs by reduc­ing the size of images linked to your InDesign doc­u­ments. It auto­mat­i­cal­ly reduces the image res­o­lu­tion, scales and crops images in Photoshop accord­ing to their dimen­sions in the InDesign doc­u­ment and the tar­get res­o­lu­tion spec­i­fied, and reim­ports them to InDesign at 100%. LinkOptimizer also allows to con­vert image col­ors, adjust sharp­ness, spec­i­fy image safe­ty bleed and more.

1 of InPreflight 1.5
Courtesy of Zevrix Solutions

InPreflight is a com­pre­hen­sive qual­i­ty con­trol solu­tion for Adobe InDesign that lets you quick­ly and eas­i­ly locate poten­tial prob­lems and pro­duce error-free documents.

InPreflight pro­vides a robust, fast, user-friendly and afford­able pre­flight solu­tion for ser­vice providers, print­ers, ad agen­cies, design­ers and pub­lish­ing hous­es. It gives exten­sive infor­ma­tion about all doc­u­men­t’s fonts, col­ors and links and allows to quick­ly spot poten­tial prob­lems accord­ing to user defined pre­flight settings.

InPreflight saves you hours of check­ing their doc­u­ments man­u­al­ly and deal­ing with con­se­quences of cost­ly mistakes.

1 of InEventScript 1.0.3
Courtesy of RogueSheep

InEventScript allows you to auto­mate com­plex or repet­i­tive process­es in Adobe InDesign or Adobe InCopy by assign­ing scripts to the every­day actions users take in InDesign. Anything you can script can be asso­ci­at­ed to user actions in InDesign. InEventScript allows you to stream­line your work­flow with ease.

1 of Real World Print Production by Claudia McCue (Peachpit/Adobe Press)
Courtesy of Practicalia, LLC

Signed by the Author

Written by a pre­press and print­ing pro­fes­sion­al, this book well help you pre­pare files that actu­al­ly print correctly–without those annoy­ing 3:00AM phone calls from your printer!

1 of Real World InDesign CS2 by Olav Martin Kvern & David Blatner (Peachpit/Adobe Press)
Courtesy of Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner

You’ve mas­tered page design and can eas­i­ly work your Quark mag­ic. Now you are ready to take the plunge and switch to Adobe InDesign CS2 and you need to learn and start suc­cess­ful­ly using the award-winning soft­ware, imme­di­ate­ly! Real World Adobe InDesign CS2 has all the industrial-strength tech­niques and time-saving tips you need to start lay­ing out, proof­ing, and print­ing pages with InDesign CS2, with­out miss­ing a beat or a dead­line! You’ll find every­thing you need here to mas­ter InDesign’s advanced page lay­out tools, man­age col­or, snip­pets, use the Bridge effec­tive­ly, and more. You’ll also find com­plete cov­er­age of InDesign CS2’s new fea­tures: Object Styles, Photoshop and Adobe PDF lay­er sup­port, using InCopy, Smarter text han­dling, flex­i­ble XML sup­port, and much more. Written by pros for design pros, this book has all the real-world, industrial-strength InDesign CS2 tech­niques that will make all the dif­fer­ence in your fast-paced pro­duc­tion environment!

1 of Illustrator CS2 and Flash 8 Integration by Mordy Golding (Lynda​.com)
Courtesy of Mordy Golding

Working with Adobe’s two most pow­er­ful vec­tor appli­ca­tions does­n’t need to be dif­fi­cult, espe­cial­ly when using them togeth­er effec­tive­ly. Instructor Mordy Golding shows how to set up Illustrator with Flash in mind, how to work with groups, lay­ers and styles, and explains 3D effects and art­work map­ping. Golding also demon­strates how to work with type, how to cre­ate and use sym­bols, and pro­vides insid­er hints and guide­lines. Emphasis is on cre­at­ing Illustrator files that will work most effi­cient­ly and smooth­ly in Flash using Live Paint, Live Trace, and Live Effects. Exercise files accom­pa­ny the train­ing, allow­ing you to fol­low along and learn at your own pace.

1 of Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs by David Blatner & Anne-Marie Concepcion (Peachpit/Adobe Press)
Courtesy of David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion

Adobe InDesign is tak­ing the pub­lish­ing world by storm and users are hun­gry for break­through solu­tions to their myr­i­ad concerns—from how best to man­age the pro­gram’s some­times unwieldy inter­face to how to pro­duce qual­i­ty PDF files. Page-layout guru David Blatner and vet­er­an train­er Anne-Marie “HerGeekness” Concepción have scoured the online forums, inter­viewed Adobe engi­neers, and gath­ered togeth­er answers to over 200 of the most-commonly asked ques­tions. Written in a sassy, fun-to-read style, this book tack­les every major InDesign prob­lem with a lay-it-on-the-line solu­tion. Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs is for any­one who has been using InDesign long enough to real­ize that the solu­tion to their prob­lems isn’t always as obvi­ous as one would expect.

1 of Adobe Illustrator CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job by Pariah S. Burke (SAMS Publishing)
Courtesy of Pariah S. Burke

Signed by the Author

There are plen­ty of books avail­able to teach you how to use the dif­fer­ent tools that are a part of Adobe Illustrator CS2. But how many will actu­al­ly show you how to work with the tools and tech­niques and apply them to real-world, rel­e­vant projects that you encounter every day at work? This one will. Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job is a project-based guide that will help you com­plete work­place projects while you learn how to use Illustrator CS2. Detailed, well-explained instruc­tions will help you accom­plish job-related tasks and real world projects.

1 of EasyCatalog Lite CS2
Courtesy of 65BIT SOFTWARE
Designed for users with a sim­ple link-and-update require­ment, EasyCatalog Lite com­bines pow­er­ful data link­ing with our trade­mark ease of use. EasyCatalog Lite is an entry-level ver­sion of our flag­ship prod­uct EasyCatalog and offers the same link­ing tech­nol­o­gy that is now being used in over twen­ty coun­tries worldwide.

1 of Corporate Identity Print Package
Courtesy of PrintingForLess​.com

Everything you need to get a new busi­ness on its feet: free print­ing of 500 busi­ness cards, 500 let­ter­head sheets, and 500 envelopes.

1 of BatchOutput 2.2
Courtesy of Zevrix Solutions

BatchOutput is a pow­er­ful pro­fes­sion­al solu­tion to auto­mate print­ing and export to PDF and PostScript of mul­ti­ple InDesign doc­u­ments. You can also out­put mul­ti­page doc­u­ments as sin­gle pages with vari­able file names. Just select the doc­u­ments, adjust the set­tings and BatchOutput will auto­mat­i­cal­ly open and out­put each doc­u­ment using InDesign’s pre­sets. And because BatchOutput can run in the back­ground, you can still keep work­ing on your com­put­er thus using your pro­duc­tion time even more efficiently.

1 of 1‑Year Subscription to InDesign Magazine
Courtesy of InDesign Magazine

InDesign Magazine deliv­ers the best tricks, tips, how-to’s, and reviews from the biggest names in the InDesign field (includ­ing Quark VS InDesign​.com’s own Pariah Burke!).

Download a free tri­al issue.

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