Design Criticism and the Creative Process 8:08 AM

This an interesting article that i came across.Hope it is useful in your career.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/design-criticism-creative-process/

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web 7:25 AM

I'm a designer . I don't do any coding, just design. I work in InDesign, Illustrator, occasionally photoshop. I then hand off my Illustrator/PSD design files to the developer who applies the code. Sometimes i run into trouble and endless QA with my friend web designer over the mock up sites i design

In my opinion, there's two sides to this:

1) as a Graphic designer i should know the limitations that exist when designing for the web.
2) the developer should be able to match my design perfectly as long as my requirements are realistic for a web design (hence point #1) such as using a 960 Grid System template and using a 10px grid with snap to to grid turned on in photoshop/illustrator. That way all my layout elements will be 10px/20px/30px/etc apart and easier to work out, code wise.

Here's a website that lists a set of guidelines for communicating your designs to the developer:
The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
photoshopetiquette dot com



Hope it's useful for the designers who mostly do print collateral.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Is the Creative Professional's Dream Package 10:16 AM

The hype surrounding's Adobe's new Creative Suite 5 (CS5) was huge. The software was touted as being a game-changing new package that would enable creative professionals to work more efficiently, and in some truly amazing ways. For the most part, CS5 does just that.

Adobe CS5, available for both Mac and Windows, takes the company's killer apps and infuses them with new polish and features, making the package one of the most extensive updates we've seen in the suite's history.

Creative Suite 5's scope is so huge, that we not only did a full review of the overall package, but drilled down into each individual application: Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, and Adobe Photoshop CS5

Sort Paragraphs Alphabetically in indesign 12:28 AM

For basic alphabetical sorting of paragraph text -- bulleted lists, numbered lists, or just plain paragraphs -- use SortParagraphs.jsx, a script that comes with InDesign.

In InDesign CS3 and CS4, go to Window > Automation > Scripts to open the Script panel, click the spinning arrow beside the Application folder to see its contents, then Samples, and finally JavaScript. That's where you’ll find SortParagraphs.jsx. In InDesign CS2, first grab the script from the Adobe Web site, then drop it into the Presets/Scripts folder under your InDesign CS2 installation folder.

To sort your list, highlight a selection of paragraphs and double-click SortParagraphs.jsx on the Scripts panel.