Source: OhGizmo!

Another Creativebits post that caught my eye. This is particularly pertinent as it’s portfolio time for many students. This time, they have a post about making your photoshop stuff look good when it’s printed.

The real challenge in printing is to accurately match your printer colors to the image colors. A print image may not accurately match the color of the image as displayed on your monitor, but it may if you follow the three key steps of Color Management:

1. Calibrate and profile your monitor.
2. Set up an image “Color Space”.
3. Configure your printer driver for the print.

I’ll let you read the rest of the post on their website.

Source: creativebits – mac design community

I just stumbled on to this post from Ivan on a really great blag called Creative Bits.

Last Friday Eric Hebenstreit a lead programmer at Microsoft announced that starting from end of April MS will start offering IE8 as an update for users who are still on IE6 or IE7.

IE6 was a huge pain in back for all of us who ever tried to put a website together. It increased the time and effort required to build a website at least two fold, by requiring web designers to come up with bug fixes and tricks to find a way around IE6′s poor HTML and CSS rendering capabilities.

This resulted in higher costs for clients and sometimes poor user experience for the visitors. Indirectly IE6 wasted a lot of money for end users and companies by increasing the bandwidth required to load websites and thus increasing internet subscription fees. IE6 also managed to hold back the industry several years by not allowing website builders use advanced technologies and forcing them to rely on technology that IE6 supported.

But, all is forgiven, because Microsoft finally turned things around and released IE7 and IE8 in a relative quick succession bringing IE up to speed with modern browsers.

Today IE6′s browser market-share is between 10-20% depending on the statistics you look at and it’s still large enough for companies to require compatibility. This number was dropping by about 1% in the last 6 month. And hopefully with the update to be released in the coming weeks IE6 will drop below 5% within 2-3 month. At that point we can disregard IE6 altogether finally putting an end to the misery.

This is a time for a celebration! Everybody order something, it’s on me!

To which I reply:

Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She’s gone where the goblins go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!

But then, I don’t get out of the house much.

Source: creativebits – mac design community

We all know someone like this don’t we?

Digital Photography School has a post about Bits, Bytes, and even Zettabytes. Now before you say to yourself, “I’m a graphic designer, I don’t need to learn about such nerdy things”, I’m here to tell you that yes, you’d better learn about such nerdy things. This post tells you why you can’t fit 2 gigabytes of artwork on a 2 gigabyte jump drive.

Or, you could ignore such things and spend the rest of your career wondering why you’re unemployed. Up to you, really.

Source: digital-photography-school.com

My employer is looking for qualified Flash designers for a full-time, permanent, on-site contract position in Troy, Michigan. We have a tight-knit, in-house Flash production team of 6-7 people including 3 other full-time Flash designers. We develop award-winning online learning courses using image, audio, and video assets produced by our agency.

If you’re interested or know someone who would be, please read the job posting (linked below) and contact me. Thanks! http://groups.adobe.com/posts/d9f4aa510a

I am also looking for someone to fill a small Flash/Flex contract in Ann Arbor. It’s a full-time, 2-week contract. I don’t have a lot of details, but if you’re interested give me a shout!

Thanks,
Ross

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Ross Smith
evolutioneer@gmail.com

Love Apple or hate them it makes no difference because you have to admit, they know how to brand. A few years ago, Matt Rodbard wrote an article on the invention of the Apple Logo in Sync Magazine. The magazine died, the articles got buried, and Matt was kind enough to let ZLOK re-publish it so that you can enjoy it and it doesn’t get lost.

Read the article on ZLOCK here.

Rob’s Wikipedia entry is here.

Source: ZLOK