Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition

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 Senseâ„¢) 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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