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MAGAZINE ARTICLES booklets and guides	tips and techniques
	Making a Few Points About Beziers by Lidka Schuch The Bézier pen tool - probably the most difficult digital graphics tool in precision drawing to learn, it is also the most important one.
	Bitmap Images — Embed or Link? by Lidka Schuch As print and the web converge and applications add more tools and tricks, the question of how to place bitmaps in a page layout becomes more confusing. Use old rules if you want a peace of mind.
	Clipping Paths — Follow the Right Paths by Lidka Schuch Clipping paths... those who have travelled them know that they are full of booby traps.
	PPI, DPI, LPI and Color Depth Unravelled by Lidka Schuch Understanding color scanning isn't difficult - this comprehensive primer offers terminology and general techniques for performing desktop scans with Photoshop.
	How to Scan for the Web by Lidka Schuch There are many factors to consider when preparing images for websites. Here's an introduction to techniques for making your Web pictures load faster and look better.
	Adobe InDesign — Can You Really Do It All in InDesign? by Lidka Schuch Is there any question that Adobe InDesign can run rings around QuarkXPress? If there is, here are ten quick pointers on what InDesign can do that Quark can't.
	Laying Out The Groundwork by Lidka Schuch and Dan Brill For designers used to the comforts of Quark, the prospect of switching to Adobe InDesign may sound traumatic, but the payoff is faster workflows, smoother colour management, and fewer incompatibilities. Here are a few key points about making the migration.
	Ten Things InDesign/QuarkXPress Can't Do by Lidka Schuch Last year's release of Adobe InDesign was heralded - prematurely - as the end of Quark. Now it looks like the real showdown will happen next year, with Quark 5 facing off against InDesign 2.
	Ten Sure Ways to Make Quark Pages That Won't Print Right by Lidka Schuch Ten most common prepress problems and how to avoid them.
	Twelve Tips to Building Better Pages by Lidka Schuch Twelve most important things to remember for laying out pages for printing.
	PDF to the Rescue by Lidka Schuch The file format for a divine future that is here now...
	Pecking Your Way Through Painter by Lidka Schuch Corel Painter hasn't received much attention of late, yet it still offers the kind of tools, features and ease of use that even Photoshop doesn't have.
	Ten Ways to Keep Your Systems Running Clean by Lidka Schuch & James Belardo Look after your systems properly and your productivity will improve. Here are a few fundamentals for Mac and PC users.
	Ten Ways to Make Web Pages That Don't Work by Lidka Schuch Sure, you've learned how to design a web page. But can you make one that works — for anyone? Here's a basic checklist for any web page designer.
	Tips, Tricks and Workarounds for Adobe Illustrator by Lidka Schuch No matter what version of Illustrator you are using, some techniques always work.
	Tracing — Just an Outline? Still No Sign of the Perfect Tracing Tool by Lidka Schuch & Mona Idriss Tracing logos and other artwork is a mundane challenge facing graphic designers every day but which hasn't received much support from software developers.
	Font Management — How To Pack a Suitcase by Lidka Schuch Fifteen years after the introduction of the Macintosh and fourteen years after the introduction of PostScript, fonts still still float like UFOs over the land of digital design.
	reviews and general
	The Page Has Turned by Dan Brill, Lidka Schuch & Ron Giddings The page of the past will not be the page of the future, as new application suites and the migration of audiences to the screen expand its shape, content and workflow.
	A New Medium in Traditional Fine Art Graphics by Lidka Schuch & Zenon Burdy Contemporary fine art is a never-ending search for new meaning, new materials, and new media.
	Adobe Illustrator 10 by Lidka Schuch Big, bold and beautiful to the web and back.
	Adobe Illustrator 9 by Lidka Schuch (Graphic Exchange Magazine, June 2000) A step closer to perfection.
	Adobe PageMaker 7 by Lidka Schuch & Lerrick Starr Graphic design evolves into a business app.
	BBEdit — Bare Bones? Hardly! by Lidka Schuch Don't kid yourself, there is definitely more to BBEdit than just bare bones.
	Corel Painter 8 by Lidka Schuch A new face to go with a new home.
	Corel Procreate Painter 7 by Lidka Schuch Corel comes through with major upgrade.
	Wacom Cintiq 18sx Interactive Pen Display by Lidka Schuch A change of style.