Magazine

Do you work ”in Adobe?” Good, now there’s a magazine just for you–Layers!

Today, KW Media Group, publishers of Mac Design Magazine, relaunched the magazine as Layers — The “How-To” Magazine for Everything Adobe. Each issue is dedicated to giving readers the latest step-by-step tutorials, tips, and tricks for all of Adobe’s design, video, and photography applications.

What happened to Mac Design Magazine? Why the new name?…Scott Kelby explains…“The magazine has grown, changed, and evolved so much over the past few years that the word “design” doesn’t really explain all that we are anymore. If you’ve read us for any length time, you know we’re also a magazine for digital photographers, with digital photography news, tips, tutorials, and camera and printer reviews in every issue. Plus, from the very beginning, we’ve been the only Mac magazine to have an entire section dedicated to digital video editing. But we found that most photographers and video editors didn’t really know that because they don’t generally reach for a magazine that has the word “Design” in big letters on the cover.”

The first issue of Layers (May/June) will be available on newsstands nationwide on May 10, 2005, and is also available by subscription.

Note:The practice of saying “I work in Adobe” or “My logo is in Adobe” is not recommended unless your work or your logo is actually made from mud. Please specify the actual application name when making such statements. Thank you.

Look out Quark, here comes Adobe InDesign CS2

Adobe announced today the latest version of its layout and design program, Adobe InDesign CS2. This new version improves the speed and efficiency of designers in a variety of workflows from text-intensive book, magazine, and newspaper production to high-end XML-based cross-media workflows. Designers can increase productivity and create more consistent designs by saving graphic, text, and frame-level attributes as Object Styles, which are easy to apply and globally update. Exporting objects with the new InDesign snippets features enables users to easily share or repurpose live InDesign content and layouts from part of a page.

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The new Adobe Bridge feature is a part of InDesign as well and allows multi-view file browsing and smooth cross-product integration across Adobe Creative Suite 2 software.

Adobe InDesign CS2 allows designers to experiment with different design options or use multiple variations of a file layout by selectively displaying layers and layer comps in Adobe Photoshop or layers in Adobe PDF — all while linking to a single file. Using anchored objects, users can associate callouts, pull quotes, margin notes, and graphics with specific text, all with precise control over positioning and other attributes. Drag-and-drop text, within or between frames, makes it easy to quickly reuse text in different locations.

Adobe InDesign CS2 for Mac OS X version 10.2.8 through 10.3.8 will begin shipping in May to customers in the United States and Canada, and will be available through Adobe Authorized Resellers and the Adobe Store. International versions are expected to begin shipping in late May and early June. Estimated street price for the full version will be US$699 and upgrade pricing starts at US$169.
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O’Reilly Launches MAKE Magazine for Tech Do-It-Yourselfers

Hacking never used to be an evil thing. Geeks and wannabes will continue to debate the philosophical differences between “hackers” and “crackers”…”white hat” and “black hat”…but when it comes down to origins, a hacker is just someone who customizes what he’s been given to serve his own purpose. And so for all you who would like to make your own budget Steadicam or build a network cable that can replace the five most commonly used cables or even make a magstripe reader and find out what hidden information is being stored on your credit card–for all you hackers out there–O’Reilly has announced MAKE Magazine.

Available today on Amazon.com and on makezine.com–and at newsstands and bookstores throughout the US in mid-March–MAKE is published quarterly. Single copies are US$14.99 and a yearly subscription is US$34.95.

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