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Print at 100,000 Dots

Per Inch!

Fabulous! Researchers

have created a new print-

ing technology that allows

100,000 dots per inch—the

physical limit of how close

dots can be before the light

waves diﬀract and the ob-

jects blur together.

Mike Rankin explains it at

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e-Book Prices Adjust

in Wake of DOJ Ruling

Immediately aer the U.S.

Department of Justice’s e-

book pricing settlement

was approved, prices for

e-books began shiing—

mostly downward. Titles

from HarperCollins are

available at various pric-

es because the retailers can

now set their own.

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The Executive Summary of Graphic Design News www.design-tools.com Issue #237 October 2012

Tips & TRicks

Create a

Smart Edge Vignette

Here’s a super-quick way

to create a soly darkened

edge (vignette) in Photo-

shop. With an open im-

age, choose

Filter> Convert

for Smart Filters

, and then

choose

Filter> Distort> Lens

Correction

. In the result-

ing dialog box, drag the Vi-

gnette slider all the way le.

To increase the vignette

width, drag the Midpoint

slider slightly to the le.

You can also use the Smart

Filter mask (big white

thumbnail below your im-

age layer) to hide the vi-

gnette from your subject’s

face (just paint within the

mask with black).

To lower the strength of

the vignette, open the ﬁl-

New HaRdwaRe

Affordable

Color Calibration

X-Rite’s new ColorMunki

Smile ($99) is a simple and

aﬀordable monitor-cali-

bration solution. e bun-

dled soware handles cal-

ibration on LED and LCD

displays (without requiring

users to understand color

theory) and can calibrate

multiple displays connect-

ed to a single Mac or PC.

X-Rite says the ColorMun-

ki Smile uses the same

technology as its higher-

end calibration products,

so you can expect high col-

or accuracy without the

high price tag.

www.xrite.com

iOS 6

Boosts Performance

Apple’s new iOS 6 (free) for

the iPhone, iPad, and iPod

touch includes a Do Not

Disturb mode for block-

ing all incoming messages

during your “quiet” times,

Siri voice control for the

Retina display iPad, and

Shared Photo Streams,

which let you share just

the photos you want with

friends or colleagues.

iOS Mail gained improved

support for ﬂagged mes-

sages and the ability to use

Mountain Lion’s VIP mail-

boxes. Our iPhone 4, 4S,

and 5 tests show iOS 6 runs

New sofTwaRe

Easy FTP Uploads

Sohing’s FTP Maker

($30) is a clever program

that lets you build and dis-

tribute mini-applications

to automate uploading ﬁles

to your FTP server. You

provide the server settings,

FTP Maker builds an up-

loader app you can give

away, and then users drag

and drop to send their ﬁles

to your server.

It can compress ﬁles before

uploading, automatically

add preﬁxes and suﬃxes to

ﬁle names, and show how

long an upload will take.

You can even add your

own logo to the uploader

apps you create!

www.softhing.com

Speed Tests:

Windows on Mac

e Mac Observer recently

ran benchmark tests to see

which oﬀers the best per-

formance when running

Windows on a Mac—Par-

allels, Fusion, VirtualBox,

or Boot Camp. e clear

winner was Boot Camp, as

it lets Windows run direct-

…Soware continues on page 2

fered by Apple, Amazon,

Barnes & Noble, Kobo,

Google, and Sony.

She’s updating it regularly

www.tinyurl.com/9zr7sxx.

…News continues on page 2

well, oﬀers an overall per-

formance boost, and can

even improve battery life.

iPhone 5: Bigger

Screen and LTE

Apple’s iPhone 5 has a tall-

er, four-inch Retina display

along with LTE high-speed

wireless data support. e

new model can perform

up to twice as fast as the

iPhone 4S, and it oﬀers

deeper color saturation

and supports 802.11a/b/g/n

…Hardware continues on page 4

…more Tips & Tricks on page 5

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