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Saturday, November 1, 2008

Imagenomic Portraiture ver. 1.0

Imagenomic Portraiture

Portraiture is a Photoshop plugin that eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by- pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.

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Imagenomic Noiseware

Imagenomic Noiseware

Noiseware is the highly-acclaimed, award-winning software tool from Imagenomic that is setting the standard for digital image noise reduction. Noiseware leads the field for speed, quality and ease-of-use in restoring image fidelity by eliminating digital noise and unwanted artifacts introduced by high ISO photography and less than optimal environmental conditions.

8 MPIXEL IN UNDER 4 SECONDS

Inimitable Performance: Continuing its ever-increasing performance tradition, the new NoisewareTM 4 boasts an additional 25% speed increase, plus dual-processor support enabling a further 2X performance improvement over its predecessor. Now you can process 8 MPixel files in under 4 seconds in 16-bit mode.

COLOR AND TONAL RANGE | FREQUENCY | DETAILGUARD

New Unique Features: NoisewareTM includes three new control sets to enable a wide range of fine-tuning and superior output quality. Now you can adjust detected noise levels as well as noise suppression levels by tonal and color ranges. Noiseware's new DetailGuardTM preserves image details based on tonality range and processing degree, safeguarding picture details from excessive alteration.

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Mosaic Creator ver. 2.95

Mosaic Creator

Mosaic Creator is a program for creating image montages (photo mosaics, mixed mosaics, random mosaics), that are images which consist of a small pictures called cell images. When viewed from a distance, you see source image. Other names for image montage are photo mosaic or photo-tiled image. Unique for Mosaic Creator are nonrectangular cell shapes.

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MasRizal Image Compressor 2008 Pro Edition

MasRizal Image Compressor 2008 Pro Edition

The perfect post-production software, Image Compressor 2008 provides everything you need for storing, viewing, retouching and sharing your photos. Using its comprehensive set of tools, you can easily import, capture, scan, retouch, compare, share and compress your images more efficiently than ever before.

State Of The Art Image Compression

Compress more than 50 major image types, including DSLR RAW files, and even recompress your JPEG files up to 90% ratio! That means extra storage space and faster image upload and download.

Creates industry standard JPEG file. Compressed image can be viewed with any application. 100% compatible.

Automatically maintain photo quality. Reduce file size but not compromise on the quality.

Fix JPEG Problems. Reduce Unwanted Blocks, Dots, Fringes And All Artifacts
Image Compressor is powered by Digital Eye. A revolutionary technology that uses up to 8x automatic snapshots, object detection, optimization and filtering technique to ensure the highest quality compressed photo.

Other features

Best In Class Image Resizing Engine

Photo Protection And More

Batch Process Multiple Photos At Once

FREE Photography Utilities

Web Gallery Creation

Animated GIF Generator

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Xara 3D ver. 6 PRO

Number 1 for 3D text and graphics...

Xara3D is so simple to use, literally anyone can produce high quality 3D graphics in minutes.

Both professional web designers and home users choose Xara3D to make still and animated 3D text and graphics, such as logos, titles, headings and buttons.

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Redfield Sketch Master

This is a manipulation tool for the creation of realistic looking hand-drawings derived from photos. You can simulate various tools such as lead pencil, ink-pencil, crayon, charcoal, airbrush, etc. Three layers with separate settings allow one to produce some effects of stylized fine-arts on all sorts of surfaces (water paper, squared paper, laid paper, canvas, leather, crepe, rag paper or any other kind of surface you wish).

A smart random settings generator helps you to create your artwork by simply clicking on the Dice.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

TOP 40 Fonts from MyFonts.com Professionals Designers

Content:
Univers™ Ultra Condensed Thin 39
Univers™ Ultra Condensed
Univers™ Ultra Condensed Thin xxx all parts
01. Adobe-Garamond
02. Avenir
03. Bank-Gothic
04. Boycott
05. Carpenter
06. Cezanne-Regular
07. Chato-Band
08. Engravers-Gothic
09. Eurostile
10. Frutiger
11. Futura
12. Gill-Sans
13. Grilled-Cheese-Btn
14. Helvetica
15. Interstate
16. Itc-Avant-Garde-Gothic
17. Itc-Franklin-Gothic
18. Lamar-Pen
19. Lassigue-Dmato
20. Machia
21. Mrs-Eaves
22. Myriad
23. Nat-Vignette
24. Neue-Helvetica
25. Optima
26. P22-Corinthia
27. P22-Zaner.Jpg
28. Passions-Conflict
29. Satisfaction
30. Shelley-Script
31. Sloop
32. Swan-Song
33. Swiss-721
34. The-Nauti-Gal
35. Trade-Gothic
36. Trajan
37. Univers
38. Water-Brush
39. Yevida
40. Zafino

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Letterhead & Logo Design No. 7

Letterhead & Logo Design No. 7

PDF | English | 200 Full Color Pages | 7 Mb

Designing corporate logos and letterheads is the foundation of any graphic design business. The latest edition in the annual Letterhead & Logo Design series features the most innovative work in the field from well-known design leaders and cutting edge new artists. From logos to labels, business cards to envelopes, the creative techniques and fullcolor images portrayed in this broad range of work will inspire new approaches and design solutions for both design firms and their clients.

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LLD7

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Letterhead & Logo Design No. 6

Letterhead & Logo Design No. 6

PDF | English | 200 Full Color Pages | 70 mb

Fresh work, new design firms, established design gurus, and more than 300 innovative letterhead and logo designs. This volume is a terrific, creative addition to the very popular series.

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LLD6

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Art of Calligraphy

David Harris “Art of Calligraphy"
1998-05-01 | 128 pages | PDF | 43.1 MB

Here is a comprehensive guide explaining everything you need to know to master the skills and techniques of beautiful writing. Beginning with a review of Western calligraphy from antiquity to today's electronic age, The Art of Calligraphy helps the reader choose equipment ---- brushes, pens, pencils, papers, and inks ---- and then shows exactly how to hold and angle the pen to produce every letter of the alphabet in a number of different scripts. Key elements of letter anatomy are explained in detail ---- step--by--step constructions show each essential step in creating the distinctive characteristics of 26 styles. All the major Latin--based scripts are included ---- from Roman Imperial and Caroline to Gothic, Renaissance, and Copperplate scripts. The Art of Calligraphy features the very best historical and contemporary examples of each style, offering guidance and inspiration in this age of computer--generated type. Soon you will be ready to use your exquisite penmanship to personalize stationery or enhance other special gifts and objects. Combining instructional diagrams with outstanding examples from Western masters, The Art of Calligraphy is a unique introduction to hand lettering. It is an authoritative reference as well as a source of inspiration for any artist.

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Film Posters Exploitation

Sex, drugs, delinquency, Black power, alternative culture and, of course, rock and roll: these are just some of the themes, which have attracted the attention of the cinema's bottom-feeders over the past eighty years. A few of the resulting films have become cult classics, but most were simply tacky - few would probably now want to sit through two hours of "High School Hellcats" (1958) or "Hot Rod Rumble" (1957). The posters produced to promote them, on the other hand, are wonderful period pieces that vividly evoke the social fears, temptations and taboos of bygone eras. Up until the introduction of the Hayes Code in 1934 Hollywood had few inhibitions; the poster for "Girl Without A Room" (1933), for example, left audiences in little doubt as to how the young lady planned to find accommodation. Later in the decade, it became necessary to adopt the old tabloid trick of pretending that titillating content had a redeeming social message - thus the producers of "Marihuana" (1936) were obliged to present it as a warning about the dangers of drug addiction. In the 1950s, it was the Beats and juvenile delinquents who put a chill into middle-class hearts - and, of course, attracted middle-class kids to the drive-in screens. Then, in the 60s and 70s, came 'Blaxploitation' movies like "Shaft", Russ Meyer's mammary-obsessed epics like "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill", and even an animated sexploitation story, "Fritz The Cat". The posters for these films, from Alberto Vargas' artwork for "Ladies They Talk About" (1933) to Alan Aldridge's photomontage for Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" (1966), are masterpieces of visual innuendo, offering, in most cases, far more that the movies actually delivered.

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Color Management: A Comprehensive Guide for Graphic Designer

* Publisher: RotoVision
* Number Of Pages: 224
* Publication Date: 2005-08-01
* Sales Rank: 159724
* ISBN / ASIN: 2880468191
* EAN: 9782880468194
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: RotoVision
* Studio: RotoVision
* Average Rating: 4.5
* Total Reviews: 3

Color Management shows how to implement color as a practical form of problem solving. It is a consolidated resource, arming designers with an understanding of how to communicate with and manage color in all its aspects and applications: subtractive and additive; pigment, CMYK and RGB; 2-D and 3-D; still and motion. Sensitivity of pigments to light and air and the stability of inks is also detailed, as is the human factor, through issues of color legibility and the physical and psychological effects of color. There are step-by-step systems for achieving accurate color and successful process builds for prepress operations, color sinking, and overprinting, while technical issues of color-printing order, color mixing, dot gain, and color removal are also analyzed.

Accompanying the book comes a CD, which contains a 10,000 hue color swatch book and application software for determining legibility of type and color combinations at a distance. Color Management features visually stimulating and engaging examples of dynamic professional graphic design work. In its depth and breadth, this is a unique body of information... a one-stop color resource for designers working across all fields of visual

Excellent design book for graphic desingers

This is a well-designed book showcasing some students work as well as more known designers like Ahn San Soo, and Art Chatry-in a word, many design examples in this book aren't the ones you seen in hundreds of other graphic design books out there. The work shown in the book aren't placed there randomly like a catalog display. They all effectively accompany a particular topic in discussion-about color.
There are seven chapters in the book:
1. Intro
2. The Terminology of color
3. Basic Color Theories
4. The Creation of Color Wheels
5. Color Calibration and Overprinting
6. Color Prepress and Printing
7. Behavioral Effects of Color
Note that the book for graphic designers. Those who want to study color theories and psychology of color may want to look else where. What l really like about this book is the discussion of prepress work and explaning step-by-step how to manange and correct colors. Like what you can find in the book, "Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color", there are also 19 pages of "color associations" which package designers may find useful. This book also blows away "Color Index." The book comes with a CD containing PDF files of "hue swatch system."

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Graphically Speaking

Graphically Speaking: A Visual Lexicon for Achieving Better Designer-Client Communication
Graphic Design
Author: Lisa Buchanan
Language: English
How Design Books | ISBN: 1581802919 | November 2002
PDF | 208 pages | 63 Mb

It's all too often that designers leave a meeting with clients feeling as if they've been speaking an entirely different language. Graphically Speaking solves such communication problems by breaking down client-designer dialogue into something both parties can understand. It visually "defines" more than 30 of the most common words that clients use to describe what they want in a design. Vague, possibly confusing terms - words like "elegant" or "powerful" or "warm" - are made specific as they relate to actual design style.
Entries provide visual reference materials including color combinations, fonts and final designs, so that terms are defined both literally and visually. Because of the structure of the book, it's really three "must-have" books in one - a client communication guide, a designer reference and an inspiring collection of top design projects.

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Layout: Making It Fit

Layout: Making It Fit Finding the Right Balance Between Content and Space (Creative Solutions)

PDF | 192 pages | 38 Mb
Authors: Carolyn Knight, Jessica Glaser
Language: English
Rockport Publishers | ISBN: 1592530052 | 2003-11-01

Finding the right balance between content and space is a challenge every graphic designer faces. The cookie-cutter templates most layout books offer donÆt help, because every project has a different content-to-space ratio.

Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of challenging layout design. It offers general techniques for working with varying quantities of content and shows how designers can apply these techniques in their own work. The book focuses on the two most difficult layout issues: compacting a high volume of content onto a small area while maintaining beauty and readability; and applying a small volume of content to a large space without making it look "bare." From posters to logos and magazines to book covers, two veteran design consultants examine more than 150 projects and illustrate the methodologies and solutions that made each work.

This invaluable resource reveals how to make content shine in any space.

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LMF

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Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design

Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design
By Steven Heller, Teresa Fernandes
PDF | English | 368 Pag | 2005 Nov 11 | 61.4 Mb

Becoming a Graphic Designer provides a comprehensive survey of the graphic design market, including complete coverage of print and electronic media and the evolving digital design disciplines that offer today's most sought-after jobs. Featuring 65 interviews with today's leading designers, this visual guide has more than 600 illustrations and covers everything from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job. The book offers profiles of major industries and key design disciplines, including all-new coverage of careers in exhibition design and illustration.

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Advertising Graphics with Impact

Advertising Graphics with Impact
PDF | 163 pages | 75 Mb
Language: English
P.I.E. Books | ISBN: 4894442876

Laughter-provoking comical works; attention-getting shocking works; unconventional works that take the viewers by surprise. A collection of primarily poster and magazine ad graphics from around the world that appeal to the five senses, demonstrating a wide range of ways to have impact.

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AGI

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

VanDerLee Halftone

Create the perfect Halftone™ effect.

The largest feature-set of any halftone dithering effect in the market ensures you can do things never seen before. Make creative design and artistic works with the Halftone plug-in or process images for the printing press quickly and painlessly. Halftone uses complex mathematical formulas and specifically designed and optimized algorithms to provide the best possible quality for any image.

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Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition

52 filters With over 250 effects and styles in 52 easy-to-use filters, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Edition is the most comprehensive set of filters for color correction, retouching and creative enhancements available today.

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Auto FX Mystical Tint Tone and Color

Mystical Tint Tone and Color is a suite of 38 color effects that are both easy to use and provide you with professional results in seconds. The effects are applied by brushing on or removing the effect from the desired area. Mystical Tint Tone and Color has an efficient workflow for combining multiple editing steps into a simple dynamic interface with unlimited undo and redo, stackable effect layers and hundreds of instant one-click effects.

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Monday, August 25, 2008

Bickham Script Pro

Richard Lipton’s Bickham Script is a flowing, formal script typeface based on the lettering of 18th century writing masters, as rendered in the unparalleled engravings of George Bickham. This ornate script lends a signature flourish to invitations, menus, annual reports, restaurant logos, and packaging. With dozens of alternate letterforms in addition to its range of weights, Bickham Script’s personality can range from poised to extravagant. It is intended primarily for display settings.

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Bickham Script Pro

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Warnock Pro

Designed by Robert Slimbach, Warnock Pro is a new Adobe Originals type composition family named after John Warnock, the co-founder of Adobe Systems, whose visionary spirit has led to major advances in desktop publishing and graphic arts software. A full-featured, state-of-the-art OpenType family - with Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek character sets in a variety of weights and optical size ranges-Warnock Pro is a classic yet contemporary composition family that performs a wide variety of typographic tasks with elegance.

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Brioso Pro

Brioso® Pro is a typeface family designed in the calligraphic tradition of our Latin alphabet, evoking a finely penned roman and italic script — retaining the immediacy of hand lettering while having the scope and functionality of a contemporary composition family. Brioso blends the humanity of written forms with the clarity of digital design, allowing type users to set pages of refined elegance. Designed by Robert Slimbach, this energetic type family is modeled on his own formal roman and italic script. In the modern calligrapher's repertoire of lettering styles, roman script is the hand that most closely mirrors the oldstyle types that we commonly use today; it is also among the most challenging styles to master. Named after the Italian word for "lively," words set in Brioso moves rhythmically across the page with an energy that is tempered by an ordered structure and lucid form. An extended type family, Brioso Pro is available in five weights — Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, and Bold — with companion italic fonts. The type family also features four specially-designed "Opticals" variations for setting captions, text, subheads and display headlines.

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Brioso Pro

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Brioso Pro PDF

Adobe Typography Primer

Ideal for your design course, this 20-page typography primer is an example of some of the great in-box materials included with Adobe Type Classics for Learning.

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Typography Primer

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Vector Magic

Vector Magic's flagship service is the online auto tracer available on this website. It converts bitmap (aka raster) images into vector images through an easy-to-use web interface - just upload your image and it will guide you through the process.

The conversion process as such is called tracing or vectorization and is something that has historically been done mostly by hand. An automated tool like the Vector Magic web service can make this otherwise tedious task quick and painless.

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Redfield Face Control

Face Control plug-in allows you to change facial expressions of people in the digital photos. It is very easy-to-use freeware program. Human, animal, alien, or any other faces are welcomed.

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Lokas 3D Shadow

This handy tool easily creates various types of 3D shadows from objects such as letters, numbers, shapes and so on. All settings are present in a single window - transparency level, perspective, shadow color and position, X/Y/Z angles, and some others. Even the seasoned designers are surprised by the simplicity of the plug-in and excellent results it generates. The text, processed with this tool immediately grabs the attention of the viewers.

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Lokas Software

Adobe Kuler

Explore, create, and share color themes

Discover Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. Whether you're creating websites, interior designs, scrapbooks, graphic identities, or any other visual, experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community. Kuler uses Adobe Flash® technology and works both as a standalone tool and with Adobe Creative Suite® software.

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Desktop Version
Kuler Desktop

To run the Kuler Desktop, you'll need to download the Adobe AIR™ runtime first.

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Picnik: Photo Editing Made Fun

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and fun.

Fix your photos in just one click
Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
No download required, nothing to install

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Diavlo Light

Diavlo is a free font that is a bit square and sharp. Great attention has been given to detail, spacing and kerning. It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs.

Features:

Extended language support*

+ Improved glyph shapes (such as S, s, W, w, f, t, diactitics, fractions and many more ... )
+ Numeral widths are now old style (via OpenType tabular widths can be accessed)
+ Extended and improved kerning (now over 3.200 kerning pairs)

*Languages now (fully) supported:

Latin / Central European / Croatian / Romanian / Icelandic / Turkish / Esperanto

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Exljbris Font Foundry

The Rasterbator

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.

The Rasterbator is very easy to use. You can either upload a file from your computer or use any file that is publicly available in the Internet. After you have cropped the image and selected a desired size, the rasterbated image will be sent to you as an easily printable pdf file.
Using The Rasterbator requires that you have Adobe Flash Player 7 and Adobe Reader (or other pdf viewer).

The standalone version is the same as the web version, except that downloading images from the web and image cropping are not supported, and you have to set the output size numerically (number of pages wide/high) rather than using a fancy drag handle. The results are exactly the same.

Online Version
Rasterbate Online

Standalone Version
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Homokaasu

Virtual Photographer

Virtual Photographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images, with just one click. Virtual Photographer includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing. Get results in seconds!

Compatible with Photoshop^®, Photoshop^® Elements, Paint Shop™ Pro^®, Photo-Paint and other popular imaging applications.

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OptikVerve Labs

Monday, August 18, 2008

ABR Viewer - Photoshop Brush Viewer

There are lots of wonderful brush sets for photoshop in the web... too many to install them, all just to see what they look like! now you can have the preview of a set without having to install it... without having to run photoshop! You can even adjust thumbnails size and you can have the preview of the actual size of the brush. This software can generate images for every single brush and can also generate the general image from the panel of the thumbnails you have visualized.

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AMP Font Viewer 3.82

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Supports Type1 fonts.
Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
Deletion of installed fonts.
List of all installed fonts with several display options.
List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.
It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.
Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
Dual English/Spanish version.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Artzmania Super Ezine

The best media artwork showcase for design inspiration collections from global designers all around the world. This super e-zine has attracted international designers in their quest to showcase their superb creativity through design and arts and is distributed on worldwide platform for all walks of life to enjoy. It is widely recognized as one of the most successful free e-zine in the web.