July 2008 - Graphics Feeds - English

2nd Costa Rica Tour Date Announced

I am pleased to announce that I will be guiding on a second expedition to Costa Rica in the Spring of 2009. The original tour date of February 17-24, 2009 is still on and will be a full blown photographic tour. Worldesigns Tours has added a second tour...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 10:41 by Fleeting Glimpse Images : Visions in words ~ Sagas in light: Blog

Filed under: Travel

Thursday Tip: Cut, Copy and Paste

Some of you may say this tip is extremely basic. If it is basic to you, great, you've already shaved some serious time off of your work week. For the rest of you, this is the way to save yourself a bunch of time. How often do you use the Cut, Copy...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: thursday-tip, copy, cut, paste

Adobe Announces Lightroom 2

One of the topics we've covered in-depth in CorelDRAW Unleashed magazine is the processing of RAW photos. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 added the ability to process RAW images in the Camera Raw Lab. This certainly makes it very convenient to process...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 18:39 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: adobe, raw, processing, lightroom

Hump Day Hardware: The Original iPhone

If I were to tell you that I've been using an iPhone for almost a year and a half, some of you might not believe me. Well, it's true. But this iPhone is not made by Apple, costs much less than Apple's products and carries a monthly fee only...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: hump-day-hardware, voip, linksys, iPhone, skype

Tutorial Tuesday: Custom Buttons and Toolbars

If you want to take your productivity in CorelDRAW to a new level, one of the best ways is to customize the program to work exactly as you want. You can do this by customizing the buttons, shortcut keys, menus and much more. Combine this with macros and...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: tutorial-tuesday, custom, workspace, toolbars, buttons

11 Months - 13 Days

Well Vista naysayers, it finally happened. I actually crashed Vista Home Premium 32 Bit OS. I know many of you are afraid of Vista. I used to be. Now that 11 Months and 13 days have lapsed and I finally crashed the OS, I am no longer afraid. A laptop...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 12:59 by Fleeting Glimpse Images : Visions in words ~ Sagas in light: Blog

Filed under: Software

Macro Monday: Oberon Curveworks

If you regularly work with files loaded with lots of curve object and nodes, you should definitely check out the Oberon Curveworks macro . It contains a number of different functions that you might find useful. Remove Overlap and Remove Intersections...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: macro-monday, curveworks, oberon

Sunday Stock: iStockphoto Image of the Week

You may already be familiar with the folks at iStockphoto . They supplied 1000 high-resolution images for inclusion with CorelDRAW X4. And when you registered, they gave you credits towards the purchase of more images. I know users are hesitant to create...

Published Sun, Jul 27 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: istockphoto, photo, illustration, vector, sunday-stock

Weekend Widget: Xobni

You're probably saying that Xobni sure does have a weird name. At first glance, it sure does. Now look more closely and reverse the order of the letters. Got it yet? It is inbox spelled backwards. Once you have the name figured out, you can guess...

Published Sat, Jul 26 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: e-mail, xobni, outlook, inbox, weekend-widget, management

Font Friday: Roadgeek Fonts

When I drew up the plans for my daily topic, today was supposed to be Font Friday. That means one font. I decided we should start with a bang and I'll direct you to a bunch of fonts today. Roadgeek fonts were created to duplicate the fonts used on...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: fonts, roadgeek, recreation, symbols, font-friday

PowerPoint Live Approaches

It is time to shift gears and look forward to PowerPoint Live , the premier event for presentation professionals across the country, indeed, around the world. This year's conference takes place in San Diego during September. Between the 21st through...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 8:23 by Fleeting Glimpse Images : Visions in words ~ Sagas in light: Blog

Filed under: Presenting

Thursday Tip: A Quick Bounding Box

When you learn about a time saving feature that has been in CorelDRAW for several versions, do you whack yourself upside the head? I certainly do. I just think about how much time I could have saved had I known about the tip earlier. That's the focus...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: rectangle, round, thursday-tip, corner

CorelDRAW X4 Unleashed Premium Bonus Content Edition Nearing Completion

For us, it seems like a good news and a bad news situation. The vast majority of orders we have received for CorelDRAW X4 Unleashed are for the Premium Bonus Content Edition. That's awesome and we think you've made the right choice. The bad news...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 17:30 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: ebook, coreldraw, unleashed, x4

Hump Day Hardware: nVidia Graphics Cards

We are graphics professionals and we use graphics software on a non-stop basis. Thus it is important for us to get a display that gives us a high-quality image. Yes, a good monitor is very important. Regardless of your monitor, it is very important to...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 2:00 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: graphics, nvidia, card, hump-day-hardware

CorelDRAW Developers Explain Custom Add-Ons

Behind any major software project are numerous talented engineers. Most of the time they remain behind the scenes. Recently one of the engineers from the CorelDRAW team posted information about one of the coolest features in CorelDRAW X4. Go ahead and...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2008 11:47 by Graphics Unleashed

Filed under: coreldraw, add-on, docker, custom