Second Place Prizes
As the second place winner in the “Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition,” Danny Dioguardi of Canada will receive courtesy of their manufacturers and Quark VS InDesign.com the following prizes, a combined value of more than US$1,800.
Click here to see Danny’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 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 Suitcase for Windows 11
Courtesy of Extensis
Suitcase for Windows provides industrial-strength font management for desktop and workgroup users running Windows. It features intelligent auto-activation plug-ins (powered by Font Sense™) for popular layout applications and a secure font repository—Font Vault—that eliminates unnecessary duplicates and provides easy access and back-up.
1 of StockLayouts Design Collection Volume 5
Courtesy of StockLayouts LLC
StockLayouts’ graphic design templates make it easy to create great looking marketing materials affordably and quickly. The royalty-free templates include pre-designed, customizable layout files, high quality stock photos and illustrations and are produced to exacting technical standards suitable for printing on a commercial press or color printer. The templates work with QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, PageMaker, CorelDRAW, Microsoft Publisher and Word on both Mac and PC.
1 of ProductivityPack CS2
Courtesy of Worker72a
All 7 Worker72a Illustrator CS2 Plug-ins
Includes:
Scoop_CS2 – Collect Support Files
SepPreview_CS2 – Preview and print color separations.
QuickCarton_CS2 – Create corrugated carton dies.
PointControl_CS2 – Handy path and point editing functions in one easy to use floating palette.
Zoom to Selection_CS2 – Adds three new commands to the view menu. Zoom To, Zoom From and Fit Selected.
Select Effects_CS2 – Quickly identify objects that may cause problems when printing or flattening.
WhiteOP2KO – Reset all white text and path object overprints to knock-out.
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 Real World Creative Suite 2 by Sandee Cohen & Steve Werner (Peachpit/Adobe Press)
Courtesy of Sandee Cohen and Steve Werner
Signed by the Authors
Adobe’s Creative Suite offers a powerful unified design environment that includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS 2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2 and Acrobat 7.0. Problem is, you’ve still got to learn the thing, and learn it well: Your job, after all, depends on it. No one understands that better than the authors of this book, who draw on their own real-world professional knowledge to deliver all the industrial-strength production techniques and timesaving tips you need to start creating print and web projects with the Creative Suite 2 in record time. You’ll find everything you need here to successfully master its advanced tools; working with the Adobe Bridge file browser, Stock Photos and more.
1 of Real World Adobe Photoshop CS2 by Bruce Fraser & David Blatner (Peachpit/Adobe Press)
Courtesy of David Blatner
Fooling around with Photoshop to create interesting composite artwork is all well and good. But if you rely on Photoshop to meet tough production challenges in a fast-paced professional environment, fooling around won’t cut it! You need results, and you need them now: This book delivers! In this copiously illustrated volume, best-selling authors David Blatner and Bruce Fraser offer scads of hands-on production techniques as well as clear explanations of the concepts that drive them, so that you can get the best results possible on your own Photoshop CS2 projects. You’ll learn about managing color, getting great scans, correcting tones and colors, and more. You also find complete coverage of all of Photoshop CS2’s newest features: integration with Adobe Bridge; Vanishing Point; super-tight integration with the rest of Adobe’s Creative Suite 2; and more. Throughout, the emphasis is on efficiency: the time-saving tips and professional shortcuts that will allow you to work faster, smarter, and more creatively with Photoshop CS2.
1 of Illustrator CS2 FAQs by Mordy Golding (Lynda.com)
Courtesy of Mordy Golding
As the former product manager for Adobe Illustrator 10 and CS, instructor Mordy Golding knows the challenges that users face when learning and exploring Illustrator CS2. Illustrator CS2 FAQs answers each common question about the program in detail. Mordy covers changing object and preference characteristics, adding security to PDF files, using filters and effects, importing and exporting files, understanding ambiguous terminology, and troubleshooting common issues. Illustrator CS2 FAQs is designed for viewing as a series of tutorials, or on a topic-by-topic basis for handy everyday reference. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.
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 EasyFlow CS2
Courtesy of 65BIT SOFTWARE
EasyFlow brings ‘Automatically Insert Pages’ to InDesign
Ideal for anyone who deals with large runs of text, EasyFlow will automatically insert new pages when a master text frame is overset.
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 Artistic Screening Tools
Courtesy of Andromeda Software, Inc.
Artistic Screening Tools collection contains 3 award winning mezzotint and engraving plug-ins for Photoshop: Series 3 Screens, Cutline, and Etchtone filters. Series 3 creates a wide variety of mezzo and line art. Cutline creates digital engraving and woodcuts with 4 screens exceptionally suited for replicating hand engraved and woodcut effects. Etchtone provides etched continuous tone output that resembles old-age printing for black and white or color images.
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!).
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