Archive for June, 2008

Scanners Aren’t Just For Flat Objects

Even though your flatbed scanner is normally used for scanning (you guessed it) flat images, it doesn’t mean you can’t scan images that have more dimension (such as a watch, a ring, a yo-yo, you name it). The only problem is, scanning an image that lifts the lid adds lots of ambient light into your [...]

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Straightening Scans In 10 Seconds (Or Less)

If you’ve scanned an image and it’s crooked when you bring it into Photoshop, you can fix it in about 10 seconds flat. Just switch to the Measure tool (it lives behind the Eyedropper tool in the Toolbox) and drag it along the top edge of the image you want to straighten. That’s the hard [...]

Yahoo! Mail acknowledges spacing issues

We’ve posted about recent changes in paragraph spacing that many people have noticed in Yahoo! Mail. An update on the Yahoo! Mail blog confirms they are aware of some problems.

Just a quick update for those of you concerned about the spacing in HTML emails.  Our engineers have sleuthed out the problem, and a fix will be rolling out in the coming weeks. 

Thanks to the Yahoo! team for being open about these issues and for actively working on them — a model which other email client providers would do well to follow.

Photoshop DVD of the Week

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Correct In CMYK Or RGB?

We’ve been asked the question of whether to correct in CMYK or RGB a hundred times. As a general rule, we try to do as much color correction as possible in RGB mode, and if we’re going to use the image on press, we only convert to CMYK at the end of the correction process. [...]

Spot Color Gradient Film Saver

If you’re creating a gradient using a spot color that fades to white, to make sure your gradient appears just on the spot separation plate, create the gradient to go from the spot color to a 0% tint of the same spot color (for example, go from 100% red to 0% red). Just click on [...]

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Logo Design

Corey recreates a video game logo by building a grid background and circular target using the define pattern

Scan Line Art At The Resolution You Need

If you’re scanning black-and-white line art for reproduction in print, here are two quick tips that’ll help you get better results: 1. Scan the line art image at the dpi you’ll be printing it. This is the one time we break our long-standing “don’t-scan-at-too-high-a-resolution” rule—but only when it comes to line art. If you’re going to [...]

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