Design in-Flight

The well respected digital magazine Design in Flight was cancelled a few weeks ago but now it is back in an online edition. With contributors like Eric Meyer, Jason Santa Maria, Jon Hicks, Mark Boulton, Keith Robinson, Molly Holzschlag, Eris Free and others this is one magazine that should end up in your bookmarks.

Back in April Veerle Blog wrote an article about Color Theory: Choosing color combinations that you now can read online for free. So if you ever wondered about the wonderful world of colors maybe it is something for you. Give Design in Flight a try I think you'll love it. Good luck Andy with your online adventure!

Tips for your web site

Illustration by Ron Deviney

Match Colors Between Images in Photoshop
Photoshop's Match Color adjustment is a powerful tool for matching colors between two images. Photoshop Tips

Reinventing the Brand Identity of AG Hair Products
After expanding its line from 4 to 28 products, AG Hair Products turned to Dossier Creative for brand coordination. Graphic Design Tips

Correct Exposures with Shadow/Highlight in Photoshop
The Shadow/Highlight feature, first introduced in Photoshop CS, can reveal shadow detail and enhance highlights. Photoshop Tips

Add Color to Images with Levels and Variations in Photoshop
This black-and-white image becomes hot through the application of a little Photoshop wizardry. Photoshop Tips

Best of Website Design Winners: Step Inside Design

For all your web designers and web designers to be, take a look here for some inspiration on various web site winners, courtesy of Step Inside Design magazine.

DSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows

Drop shadows are cool, but adding them to elements of a web page can be a pain. You can fiddle with background images, tables, pure CSS solutions, Internet Explorer PNG limitations, or fixed single-use shadows tied to an image and a particular background.

The latest release of TypePad has a new popup (or flyout) interface element which presents the user with a set of options or an expanded view of an object when clicked on. The flyouts are similar to the location bubbles used in Google Maps. They have soft alpha-blended drop shadows that scale with the size of the box. The drop shadows are implemented in valid XHTML and CSS, with no CSS hacks or JavaScript. We call it ydnar Drop-Shadow-Fu.

Article is courtesy of Randy 'ydnar' Redding

Search Engine Watch

Here's a great resource for search engines that provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry, and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines.

PCWorld.com - New Version of Firefox Coming in Late Summer

The next version of the Firefox Web browser, which will be called Firefox 1.5, is slated for release later this summer, and development work continues on new features that include an automatic update service.

Background Color Selector

Check out this site for you or aspiring Web artists who want to experiment with a wide variety of text and background color schemes.

Design Project

Here's an interesting web site covering design examples, interviews with leading designers, tutorials and so on.

Usable Web

Usable Web is a stale collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.