What's happening at Fred Showker's Design & Publishing Center for the month of July?

Live on the web at: http://www.graphic-design.com/news/

... and, this month an extended &Else! News section:

July: Digital Photography

This month's theme is "Digital Photography." During June we invited subscribers of the Design Cafe list and DTG readers to write in and relate a comment about their experiences with digital photography.

WOW -- we got some of the best we've ever had -- comments from professionals and amateurs alike with good suggestions and tips, from "Learn your camera" to "shutter lag in the DSLR" to "Shooting RAW" to name a few.

If you use a digital camera this is for you... if not, it's really for you:

Readers Talk about Digital Cameras

Digital Cameras On The Go

We'll follow our last article on "Digital Vacations" with some more tips and tricks for traveling with your digital camera. We'll touch on some position strategies, lighting situations, tripods, and sharing/showing your photos online...

Editors Choice: Digital Photographic Output Guide

AVA's new Digital Photographic Output by Duncan Evans covers digital photography for both beginners and intermediates with clear, succinct writing and thoroughly enjoyable visuals. Some of his tricks are the best we've seen!

Field Trip: Photographing your dreams...

A lucky few are in the right place at the right time to see a princess-warrior -- clad in skins and chain-mail -- emerging from the woods with her companion wolf! Can you photograph such things? With the help of Victor Ciccarelli, you can. On this field trip we'll visit a place where you can actually photograph your dreams...

Adobe CS2: Sharing Palettes

if you're wondering "How can I use colors in a stock photo as a shared palette across Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications?" here's good news -- the Adobe Expert Support staff shows you how to Share Color Palettes Between CS2 Programs

Home Run Baseball Photography Tips

Andrew Malek shares tips and tricks from his Malek Computer Help site for photographing America's Pastime -- Baseball! Follow along for opportunities to capture Home Run Baseball Photography!

Gallery: Beauty out of Adversity

Ryan Forshaw has an incredible story that takes him from devastating adversity to award winning digital imaging. Be sure to see the "rollover" examples of Ryan's retouching -- fantastic!

ForGiftable doesn't mean Forgetable

This month reviewer Mike Swoop of Swoop Design digs into the ForGiftable.com site

New: Photoshop Madness

Since so much is going on in the Photoshop world we're going to start a potpourri column that will cover a broad array of "stuff" for Photoshop users It's Madness

Guest Tutorial for Photoshop

Features a Photoshop w/Image Ready tutorial for converting color images to good black and white

Kudos to Jana from Geniosity.com

Jan writes: "we really enjoy reading your graphic design articles and today we decided to support your website with a donation." BRAVO... meet our latest friend Geniosity

To become a friend of the Design Center and be recognized here as well as a link on the front page and the &Else News page see: http://www.graphic-design.com/gift.html

August: ELECTRIC WEB

It's BACK! The Web Design free-for-all, no holds barred search for the most exciting, most electric sites on the WEB! Suggest your pick for the most bizarre, most unique, most visually striking MOST ELECTRIC web sites ...
or, throw in the WORST if you like....

Hats off to YOU... DTG readers:

I don't know about you, but it seems like this issue is a particularly good one. I'm always really pleased when so much good participation rolls in from readers. You've got to admit it does get boring seeing my name on the articles all the time. Enjoy all the reader and industry articles in the Design Center this month.

It's great to find so much talent willing to share with DTG readers. Keep up the good work!

Gone to the beach?

If you are headed out on vacation, be careful and take it easy. We want you back in the reader's chair when you get back! Hopefully you'll take your digital camera and you'll share some of the shots with the rest of us when you get back.

See'ya in August, when we'll have TWO themes: "Back to School" and the "ELECTRIC WEB" where we'll be looking at the the most bizarre, unique, and striking web sites on the web!

That's it for the 175th issue of DTG.
Stay cool and have a great July!
Go forth and be creative...

Fred

Fred Showker, Editor

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Parting words...

"Let go of your attachment to being right,
and suddenly your mind is more open.
You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others,
without being crippled by your own judgment."

Albert Einstein said that, and you know he was right