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Company pulls the latest versions of PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive and Acrobat into one integrated package. Adobe announced today that it has significantly integrated its main Web design packages in an effort to speed performance, enhance...

Adobe Systems has released another component of its much-touted Network Publishing strategy--the Adobe Studio Web site, a design network for the creative community. The Adobe Studio site offers designers tools and services to inspire the creative process,...

Brain surgery, rocket science, color management. In the early years–way back in 1996 or 1997–color management was complicated and inaccessible. If you weren’t a color guru, you hired expensive consultants to solve your color problems. You went to se...

Proofing can be a costly expense for graphic design professionals and their customers. However, advancements in laser printing have enabled print quality and color consistency that rivals production-level presses, allowing designers to create proofs quickly...

You’ve heard people say it: That design isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. But sometimes the paper makes all the difference in the quality and impact of a graphical element or design. Banta Corp., a paper and printing company, offers these guidelines for c...

Design Tips and Techniques are among the most helpful resouces available to graphic and Web designers. The design tips on Graphics IQ offer helpful hints on a variety of design practices, and are aimed at making designers more skilled and effective...

10 advices 1. Start with an open mind. Assume nothing. Study your intended Web site visitors, identify their information needs and then present the information in the language and order they expect it.Test, test, test. 2. Chunk the content. Assume...

The CIP3, formed in 1995, was formally known as the International Cooperation for Integration of Prepress, Press, and Postpress. Based in Switzerland, the CIP3 initiative was set up by the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in conjunction with...

AOL has reached 20 million subscribers and, this past holiday season, AOL members spent $2.5 billion shopping online. In early January 2000, AOL announced a $350 billion merger with publishing giant Time Warner—the largest such deal in U.S. history. T...

Optical media, such as CD-ROMs, are a more reliable option for archiving digital photos than magnetic media, such as Zip disks. So here are some tips for archiving on CD-ROM: Archiving Digital Photos Which ones to buy: Be sure to use CD-R, which...

1) Check the licensing agreements for all the parts of your image that are taken from stock sources. You cannot copyright an image if someone else already holds a copyright to it. This can get tricky, so be careful. Avoid Watermarking Woes 2) Use a...

Shadows are important in graphic design for two key reasons. First, they create dimensionality, giving your images a deeper, richer look and feel. Second, they create the illusion of layers, helping the reader or viewer prioritize and organize content....

It’s tempting to just slap TV commercials up on the Internet and call it streaming media, but it doesn’t work very well. Instead of the more passive armchair mode of viewing of TV, online consumers are in usually in active research mode willing – indee...

"Saturation" sounds like what you do to yourself with a bag of Cheetos and an X-Files marathon on cable but, in Photoshop or a similar application, saturation can be described as the "pureness" of a color, where a highly saturated image looks full of...

It should come as no surprise that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the most-used browser on the Internet, and the statistics bear out the perception. In fact, a recent study by Janco Associates, Inc. found that nearly 70% of the browsers out there a...

Research has shown that reaction to color is immediate and emotional, and it can have a direct effect on a customers choices when they are shopping at a Web site, for example. With that in mind, your color choices could make or break your company's plans....

According to Forrester Research, 32% of North American firms plan to purchase an enterprise content management system this year. Here are six factors they should consider first: Content Management System 1. Platform capabilities. Key features to...

Five steps to a more creative you Try these five tips the next time you’re having trouble coming up with your next creative idea. Creative You By Joanne Cummings The best ideas come when we’re not looking, and sometimes no ideas come Creative You...

Estimates are that fewer than 10% of all screen printers currently use Densitometer , or gauges designed to help measure film or print quality prior to printing. Many just don’t see the need, trusting their own eyes over a gauge. But Densitometer are o...

Color isn’t rocket science, but knowing the basics can save you some money when it comes to printing the results of your designs. Designing for Color There are two kinds of color when it comes to printing: spot and process. Spot colors are individual c...

You can’t give a presentation these days without PowerPoint slides to support your ideas. Plus, research has shown that people remember nearly 90% of the information from presentations that use visuals. So here are some tips for optimizing your use o...

Flash receives a great deal of criticism from usability and Web standards advocates, but what most critics fail to understand is that the tool is not the problem. Flash can be (and has been) used to create usable sites, if the designer or developer follows...

One of the main complaints about Flash has been the fact that it is a plug-in – that is, a piece of software that allows a browser to view special files, such as sound or animation. Most of the more recent browsers already have the most popular plug-ins, b...

Macromedia Flash continues to be one of the most heavily used rich media platforms for Web site development on the Internet. However, Flash’s reputation has seen its ups and downs. Its very name has often been accused of saying it all: glitz, speed, a...

Interlaced GIF files download in passes; the graphic first displays at a lower resolution, which can be blurry, before the higher-resolution graphic arrives. Noninterlaced GIF Files images appear in chunks, starting from the top, once each chunk is...

Everyone of your site visitors has a different computer, a different size monitor, different settings and preferences for everything from text size to screen resolution, different modem speed (bandwidth) and more. The myriad possible combination of variables...

Eolas Technologies won its patent infringement case against Microsoft, and in response, Microsoft has had to alter the way its IE Browser handles interactive content, such as that provided by Macromedia Flash, Apple QuickTime and RealNetworks. IE...

As intellectual property issues arise more and more often in cyberspace, we all need to better understand the terminology involved. Here are some basic definitions: Intellectual Property Intellectual property: any product of the human mind which the...

Managing Knowledge 1) Map out the current Managing Knowledge requirements of your company. When information is collected, what happens to it? How do people share it? How does your company currently index and catalog information and data in your organization 2)...

Moving data-intensive processes such as loan or credit card applications online can save your company a lot of money, if it's done right. But once you get a prospect to begin filling out your online forms and start an online application process, how can...

Most Web sites have some kind of form for visitors to fill out -- registration forms, contact forms, feedback forms, order forms and more. But forms are time consuming and often perceived as an interruption or annoyance by the user. That’s why your f...

The National Retail Federation predicts that online holiday spending will be up 5.7% this year. With that in mind, Art Technology Group (ATG) offers these four strategies for online retailers to ensure a successful online sales season. Online Holiday...

Are your online customers balking at providing their personal information in order to purchase products online? The problem could be your privacy policy. P3P Primer While most organizations have a privacy policy in place stipulating how they deal...

Ever been looking at a company's Web site (or printed brochure or product box) and wondered "How can that company afford these pricey models and professional photography?" Hey—we've been fooled too. Most likely, particularly with smaller companies, w...

Surveys indicate that pop up windows are at the top of the list when it comes to users’ online frustrations. The uproar, however, is not about all pop up windows, but actually about advertisements that automatically Pop Ups over and under the screen a...

Scrolling news ticker…Spinning logos…Frames…Beveled Buttons…Pictures…Splash page…Music…Banner ads…3D elements. None of these things is inherently bad. The problem arises when they are used just because they can be, rather than because they should be....

I am using Quark 5 and Acrobat 5 on an XP machine. What is the difference between the traditional way of printing a Quark file to postscript and letting Distiller make the PDF and/or saving the Quark file as an EPS and using Distiller to make a PDF from...

Companies that don’t have a full-featured enterprise content management (ECM) system in place had better get one and fast, according to Forrester Research. The consultancy says the advent of new rules – such as Sarbanes-Oxley -- are pushing the need for...

Rich media encompasses a wide range of advertising vehicles, with new ones being introduced regularly. Here are just a few of the options available under the banner of rich media advertising. Rich Media 1. HTML-enhanced banners incorporate Web-style...

Forrester Research, a Cambridge, Mass., consultancy, recently published a report looking at the best – and worst – of Web site design. Here are seven best practices it recommends for today’s Web site designers: Seven Steps for Site Design 1. More ...

In general, there are two types of printing presses: sheetfed and web (also called roll-fed). Each has its pros and cons, depending on the print job at hand. Here are some general rules of thumb for choosing which is best for your print job. Sheetfed...

Forrester Research has compiled three common mistakes many companies make when they look to design or redesign their Web site. These include: Site Design Pitfalls 1. Poorly defined objectives. Forrester says the best site designs begin with real,...

Site Flaws redesigns get bogged down when all flaws are treated equally. These tips help you identify and remove the flaws that hurt the site, and your bottom line, the most. By Joanne Cummings Site Flaws When it comes to site redesigns, not all...

In a recent study looking at the best and worst of Web site design, Forrester Research also examined the best and worst of site navigation. Of the 20 sites studied, nine buried essential content more than four steps away from the homepage, making it difficult...

How do users interact with the Web? This fundamental question has given rise to an entire field of study created to support the aims of Web site usability. Research organizations have been founded, studies commissioned, and test after test performed...

Web Design 1. Consistency. To prevent confusion and anxiety, a site should be graphically and interactively consistent from page to page, section to section, web design even sub-site to sub-site (for larger sites). Pages should share the same basic...

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Mounting, Laminating Services Online Proper mounting can give your photographic work a clean, finished look for presentations or displays, and can also provide extra durability for repeated usage. Our mounting press permits extra large prints to be...

Adaptive Path, a user-experience firm that helps businesses build better online services, is planning on holding a number of 2003 research and design methodology workshops. Past workshop clients include Visa, Boeing, The Washington Post, the United Nations,...

Five things that you can do to make sure that you aren’t losing any valuable data. Online Forms Problems No matter how much testing has gone into a Web site, customers will encounter problems. That’s when you need good contingency design. According to ...

LAMINATION Lamination & Mounting usually goes hand in hand with large format printing. Since most papers are delicate and not waterproof (We offer waterproof papers as well as standard papers), lamination is a great way to finish your project....

According to Mike Dahlstrom, photographer for the Web, designers need to know that preparing images for the Web has 3 components. Color space, contrast range and file size. Preparing Images for the Web Of paramount concern is the quality of the viewing...

Prints 62 inches wide Indoor & Outdoor signs & banners Murals, displays & backlit Posters 12 colour printing Near photographic quality - 1200dpi Indoor & outdoor inks Matches 90% of Pantone Colours ...

Introduction Of course, in the modern world of business, the internet is a huge marketplace. Every company must be a part of it; whether it be a small company creating their place on the web, or a larger business. Even personal interest and hobbies...