About Desktop Publishing: Think Pink & Blue in 2011

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From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing
How's 2011 treating you so far? Are you past the partying? Broken any resolutions yet? Ready to get down to the business (and pleasure) of desktop publishing? Let's start with something pink and something blue, something that pops, and a greatly expanded About.com Readers' Choice Awards programs.

This year, instead of just software and tech goodies, the awards have expanded into cars, music, beer, BBQ, beadwork, board games, religion and more as the Readers' Choice voting covers a wider range of About.com topics. And of course Desktop Publishing is back with 9 categories. The nomination period starts on January 13. You'll hear more about it in our next newsletter (which just happens to come out on January 13). Start thinking about which software and which font/image/template sources you want to nominate.


What Are All The Best Packages Wearing This Year? Think Pink.
Pantone describes it as "reddish pink" and says:
"Honeysuckle is an excellent packaging color for products that speak to something active or festive, or are suggestive of sweet tastes and scents.... Read more

What Color is Cerulean?
Described as sky blue, cerulean represents many shades of the blue skies, sometimes with a hint of green. Read more
See More About:  blue  turquoise  cool colors

Pop! Goes the New Year
Some of you may have been popping open the champagne in celebration of 2011. But for a different sort of pop, make your own pop-up cards and books. I did a... Read more

Apple iWork and Pages
A user review says of Pages, the "learning curve is quite reasonable."

 


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