About Desktop Publishing: Let's Talk Photos and Photography

Desktop Publishing In the Spotlight | More Topics | Top Picks | Twitter Me |   from Jacci Howard Bear My husband walked into the bedroom and gave me the oddest look. There I was sitting in the middle of the bed throwing my camera in the air. Rather than questioning me he simply raised his eyebrow to the ceiling and said "Don't hit the fan."   In the Spotlight Giving Up On Photography You won't find me doing much camera tossing (unless of course I slip and lose my grip on my camera during the fall) but I had to at least try it out. Got one decent shot.              More Topics How to Create a Clipping Path Edit Out Backgrounds or Something Else Combine a Color and Black & White Image Simple Photo Effect Drop Shadows vs. Cast Shadows Simple to Special Effects Create an Inexpensive Lightbox Photo Studio for Non-Pros JPEG vs. RAW Digital Photo Formats Place, Don't Paste Get Your Text In Place Mystery Link: Write On It! A KODACHROME World No More Don't be blue. And don't turn red from embarrassment either if you have no clue what KODACHROME is... (bonus points if you can at least sing a few lines from the song.)   Your Graphics Software On the software side, some of you have definite opionions about what software to use to edit your photos and other graphics. Check out these graphics software choices from readers and why they use what they do.     Sponsored Links   Top Picks - Forum Discussions  from your  Desktop Publishing  Guide 1) Opening CS Files in CS4 Ryan writes, "Hey, everybody I am looking for someone who knows if you can open Adobe CS (old) files in CS4 creative suite. I just bought a new Mac and dowloaded trial versions to work on some designs and I can't open many of my CS files. Does anybody know what I can do??" How backward compatible is it? 2) Business Name Brainstorming Hillary asks your help. She is "in the midst of creating a business name for a resume creation company. So far I have come up with Resume Reflections, any ideas?" Phoenix mentions making sure to put the "acute on the e (é) so it doesn't read as resume (as in begin again)." What other advice or name ideas do you have? I kinda like the idea of reflections as in your resume is reflecting back on your past experience. 3) Merging Jim is a new forum member that needs some help with a mail merge type of problem. He's creating membership cards and wants to merge data from another file into the cards. Are you a pro with this kind of simple merge project? How about sharing a general walk-through.   Twitter Me A Little Socializing I'm a bit sporadic but I do twitter along a little each day -- sometimes not so much on the weekends. Do you twitter? Let's follow each other. I'm @tweebleone. If you want to direct a twitter message to me, be sure to put @tweebleone in the message so I'll be sure to spot it since I'm off and on at odd times.   Cats Photo Quiz Boy Cat or Girl -- Can You Figure it Out? Think you can tell a boy cat from a girl cat just by looking at a photo? It may not be as easy as you think: even gender-based color patterns can be misleading. Click here to take the quiz. Desktop Publishing Ads Cartoonize a Photo Funny Photo Image Edit Picture Editor Photo Image Advertisement     Visit Related About GuideSites: Graphics Software Graphic Design Web Design / HTML Printers / Scanners Home Business   Search About      Sign up for more free newsletters on favorite topics. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Desktop Publishing newsletter as blogb312@GOOGLEMAIL.COM. If you wish to change or remove your email address, please visit: http://www.about.com/nl/usgs.htm?nl=desktoppub&e=blogb312@GOOGLEMAIL.COM About respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy. Our Contact Information. 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2008 About, Inc.