Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition

Third Place Prizes

As the third place win­ner in the “Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition,” Vito Zgonik of the United Kingdom will receive cour­tesy of their man­u­fac­tur­ers and Quark VS InDesign​.com the fol­low­ing prizes, a com­bined val­ue of US$1,050.

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

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 Fusion 12
Courtesy of Extensis

Suitcase Fusion, a Universal Application, is the only industrial-strength, pro­fes­sion­al font man­ag­er with Font Senseâ„¢ tech­nol­o­gy to ensure exact font match­ing and auto-activation. Suitcase Fusion is also equipped with font repair func­tion­al­i­ty and a secure and struc­tured font repository—Font Vault—that elim­i­nates unnec­es­sary dupli­cates and pro­vides easy access to a cen­tral library of clean, opti­mized fonts.

1 of PhotoTilerPro 2
Courtesy of Andromeda Software, Inc. 

An essen­tial plug-in for Adobe InDesign users. PhotoTiler Proâ„¢ can be used to auto­mat­i­cal­ly cre­ate a multi-page InDesignâ„¢ doc­u­ment con­tain­ing entire fold­ers full of dig­i­tal pho­tos. With PhotoTiler Proâ„¢ you can use InDesignâ„¢ to eas­i­ly print high res­o­lu­tion doc­u­ments or pages con­tain­ing many pic­tures arranged in a reg­u­lar row and col­umn for­mat. Perfect for print or web image orga­ni­za­tion, pho­to albums, cat­a­logs, real estate ads, and car ads. 

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 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 Instant PDF
Courtesy of Enfocus Software

Enfocus Instant PDF removes the uncer­tain­ty and tech­ni­cal com­plex­i­ty from the PDF cre­ation process. PDF Queues guide the entire PDF cre­ation and pre­flight process, while the built-in syn­chro­niza­tion fea­ture guar­an­tees PDF Queues remain up-to-date. Instant PDF pro­vides doc­u­ment cre­ators and receivers the func­tion­al­i­ty they need to achieve con­sis­tent PDF out­put and qual­i­ty control.

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 ID2Q (Adobe InDesign to QuarkXPress)
Courtesy of Markzware

ID2Q Offers QuarkXPress users a quick and easy way to con­vert InDesign files into QuarkXPress doc­u­ments with all ele­ments of the InDesign doc­u­ment, includ­ing object posi­tions, col­ors, text, text attrib­ut­es, images, etc. with a sin­gle click.

1 of Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 2 All in One by Mordy Golding (SAMS Publishing)
Courtesy of Mordy Golding

Signed by the Author

If you are faced with the chal­lenge to learn the Adobe Creative Suite, you prob­a­bly also find your­self faced with the chal­lenge of car­ry­ing five big books to help you learn all that you need to know. Why take on more than is nec­es­sary? Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 2 All in One has all the answers to your Adobe Creative Suite ques­tions in one easy-to-use book. You will learn all of the prod­ucts and tech­nolo­gies in a log­i­cal, well-integrated fash­ion. Understand the fun­da­men­tals of how they work sep­a­rate­ly and togeth­er to max­i­mize your poten­tial with:

Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Version Cue CS2, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Stock Photos, Adobe Acrobat 7.0

1 of Real World Illustrator CS2 by Mordy Golding (Peachpit/Adobe Press)
Courtesy of Mordy Golding

Signed by the Author

How do you define a seri­ous Illustrator user? How about one who uses Illustrator to pro­duce robust and professional-looking vec­tor graph­ics but also needs the pro­gram to be flex­i­ble and effi­cient in work­flow and pro­duc­tion cycles. If this describes you or the user you strive to be, then you need this book Filled with the industrial-strength tech­niques and best prac­tices required to get you up to speed fast on Illustrator CS2 with­out miss­ing a beat in your pro­duc­tion work­flow, Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 is the defin­i­tive ref­er­ence for the seri­ous Illustrator user. Thoroughly updat­ed for this ver­sion of the soft­ware, Illustrator pro Mordy Golding offers a com­plete guide to the new fea­tures such as Live Trace, Live Paint, the Control Palette, Custom Workspaces, and expand­ed sup­port for Mobile devices, to name a few. You’ll also find prac­ti­cal insights on cre­at­ing type, sym­bols, graphs, col­or, effects, Web graph­ics, and more.

1 of InDesign CS2 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Sandee Cohen (Peachpit)
Courtesy of Sandee Cohen

Signed by the Author

Using the task-based, visu­al approach that has become the hall­mark of Peachpit’s pop­u­lar Visual QuickStart Guides, this vol­ume pro­vides a fast, easy, com­pre­hen­sive intro­duc­tion to every­thing InDesign. You’ll learn about all aspects of the InDesign inter­face, includ­ing its tools and palettes, as well as how to cre­ate doc­u­ments and mas­ter pages, import and style text and objects, auto­mate your work, man­age long doc­u­ments, use the Bezier pen tools,create inter­ac­tive PDF ele­ments, and work with col­or. You’ll also learn how to use the new Adobe Bridge file brows­er to locate, man­age, and drag and drop assets eas­i­ly into your InDesign lay­outs. You’ll find a new chap­ter on work­ing with InCopy, com­plete cov­er­age of more advanced top­ics (like pre­flight­ing and advanced text con­trol) and a thor­ough intro­duc­tion to all of InDesign’s productivity-enhancing fea­tures and tools.

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 EasyHistory CS2
Courtesy of 65BIT SOFTWARE
Introducing the his­to­ry pan­el for InDesign – view all of the avail­able undo and redo steps in one con­ve­nient palette. EasyHistory will option­al­ly auto­mat­i­cal­ly take snap­shots of the cur­rent spread when the doc­u­ment is saved.

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!).

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