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Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 30, 2009

One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!

Flickr Friday: October 30, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on October 30, 2009

This seasonal photo is no trick, and learning how it was shot is a real treat.

A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1

Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009

As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.

Flickr Friday: October 23, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on October 23, 2009

By the light of the iPhone.

Create Better Marketing Postcards

Features: Written by Jared Tanner on October 22, 2009

Postcards are like freeway billboards: You have a very short time to communicate your message. Here's how to create effective postcards that get the response you want.

Free For All: An Awesome Assortment

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 19, 2009

Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!

Flickr Friday: October 9, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on October 9, 2009

Derek Powazek is a Web guru and a lover of print and fine photography. And recently, he became an instant publisher, going from Flickr to a print magazine in 31.5 hours.

Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game

Features: Written by James Felici on October 5, 2009

The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.

Flickr Friday: October 2, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on October 2, 2009

A good eye can be more important than good gear.

Free For All: Textures

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 30, 2009

This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.

Flickr Friday: September 25, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on September 25, 2009

Want to see what an Australian strongman of 1936 looked like?

Free For All: Harvest These Freebies

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 23, 2009

Summer has officially given way to fall, and in the northern hemisphere, that means it's harvest time. Fill your basket with this delectable sampling of free tools, fonts, and services.

Flickr Friday: September 18, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on September 18, 2009

Some fancy software footwork makes this shot of Paris look like a small planet.

Flickr Friday Archives

Features: Written by Terri Stone on September 14, 2009

This page is a compilation of links to all past Flickr Friday photos, illustrations, and videos.

Flickr Friday: September 11, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on September 11, 2009

You might think that this striking image of red smoke on a black background is from a commercial stock photo site. But the photographer is giving it away in exchange for proper attribution.

Flickr Friday: September 4, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on September 4, 2009

Flickr isn't just a place to post and find visually inspiring images. It can also be another way to keep up with current events, as this photo of the still-burning Station Fire shows.

Free For All: Halloween Edition

Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 31, 2009

Halloween in August? It's not too early to start thinking spooky, especially if you'll be sending out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.

Flickr Friday: August 28, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on August 28, 2009

Take a 44-second trip through an eerie tunnel.

To Double-Space or Not to Double-Space...

Features: Written by James Felici on August 24, 2009

A thought-provoking disquisition on the thorny issue of how much space should follow a sentence-ending period.

Flickr Friday: August 21, 2009

Features: Written by Terri Stone on August 21, 2009

Back in 1942, new shoes must have been a really big deal.