Resources — Articles
Interested in learning something? We have amassed a number of informative and worthwhile articles for your reading pleasure. These are articles or excerpts of information that I have found helpful and have often recommended to others.
[Some of these articles are from Adobe Magazine and it's predecessor Aldus Magazine. Although they can be quite old, they still contain very relevant and useful information. These are some of the articles which have stuck with me and influenced my ways of working and thinking.]
Downloadable Articles
- Unsharp Masking In Photoshop (PDF, from Real World Scanning and Halftones by David Blatner and Steve Roth, 244K)
- Looking Sharp: Using Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to produce crisp, sharp images (PDF, from Adobe Magazine March/April 1995, by David Blatner and Steve Roth, 8.6M)
- Youth Leadership Convention '88 — Effective Leadership and Meetings (PDF, from Merivale High School Student's Council Leadership Camp 1988, 596K)
- Thirteen Telltale Signs [of Do-it-yourself Desktop Publishing] (PDF, from Adobe Magazine July/August 1995, by Robin Williams, 1.4M)
- Picture Fixes: Correcting tone and colour with Photoshop's Curves and Levels (PDF, from Adobe Magazine July/August 1996, by Bruce Fraser, 2.3M)
- Marks of Excellence: What logos do and how they do it (PDF, from Adobe Magazine July/August 1996, by Anistatia R. Miller and Jared M. Brown, 2.9M)
- The Squeeze Is On: Using the right kind of compression can save you time and space (PDF, from Adobe Magazine Summer 1998, by Glenn Fleishman, 1.4M)
- Roughing It [Considering paper when printing] (PDF, from Adobe Magazine Summer 1998, by Constance J. Sidles, 436K)
- Heightening Focus and Contrast (PDF, From Photoshop 5 for Windows Bible 1998, by Deke McClelland, 3.2M)
