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Pariah Burke
Designer, author, consultant, entrepreneur, guru: InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, QuarkXPress, WordPress, and social media for creatives.
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Pariah S. Burke (www.iamPariah.com) is a design and publishing workflow expert bringing creative efficiency into studios, agencies, and publications around the world as principal of Workflow: Creative (www.WorkflowCreative.com). He is the author of the first InDesign book written for experienced InDesign users, Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production (Sybex, 2007), and other books on Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Creative Suite, and QuarkXPress; author of more than 250 published articles; the former trainer and technical lead for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat to Adobe’s own technical support team; a freelance graphic designer with 20 years experience; a WordPress evangelist; and the publisher of the Websites Quark VS InDesign.com (www.QuarkVSInDesign.com), Designorati (www.Designorati.com), Gurus Unleashed (www.GurusUnleashed.com), Workflow: Freelance (www.WorkflowFreelance.com), and the Creatives Are Community and Toolbar (www.CreativesAre.com). When not traveling, Pariah lives in Portland, Oregon where he writes (a lot) and creates (many) projects and publications to empower, inform, and connect creative professionals.
Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 18, 2009
Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.
Free For All: Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, and Image Tools
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 30, 2009
One free online tool lets you easily extract colors from images and share them. Another resizes, renames, and convert folders full of images. I also have lots of free Photoshop brushes and fonts -- everyone's favorites!
Free For All: An Awesome Assortment
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on October 19, 2009
Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!
Free For All: Textures
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 30, 2009
This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.
Free For All: Harvest These Freebies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on September 23, 2009
Summer has officially given way to fall, and in the northern hemisphere, that means it's harvest time. Fill your basket with this delectable sampling of free tools, fonts, and services.
Free For All: Halloween Edition
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 31, 2009
Halloween in August? It's not too early to start thinking spooky, especially if you'll be sending out Halloween-themed projects to a printer.
Free For All: Just What You're Looking For
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on August 13, 2009
Be free with Web 2.0 Photoshop layer styles; fire and flame textures and backgrounds; an InDesign image library plug-in; easy scheduled emails; and a service that displays a Web design in 90 different browsers.
Free For All: Free for Web Designers
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 30, 2009
In this all-Web installment, you'll get a massive Photoshop Web elements kit; thousands of Twitter, RSS, and UI icons; CSS compression; Website spell checking; analytics; and uptime monitoring -- all free!
Free For All: Twice As Nice
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on July 22, 2009
Two servings of our freebies column in one month? Don't worry, there's no such thing as overindulgence when you're talking about free photos, textures, icons, cheatsheets, or Photoshop brushes. Dig in!
Free For All: The Best Things In Life
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 29, 2009
What do you feel like? Textures? Illustrator brushes? A Photoshop brush viewer? Free faxes? Or how about a utility that never forgets? Why not take 'em all -- they're free!
Free For All: 103 Free Fonts!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on June 15, 2009
Script fonts, modern fonts, grunge fonts, funky fonts -- what's your pleasure? We have them all, and they're all free!
Free For All: Put Away Your Wallet
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on May 14, 2009
Convert files, change your wallpaper, get things done, restore missing Photoshop features, and try fonts. As always, they're all free.
Free For All: This Stuff's Worth Paying For, But You Don't Have To!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on April 13, 2009
There's something for everyone this month: designers of iPhone Web sites or iApps; type lovers; business owners; and people who just want to compress the heck out of online images.
Free For All: I Can't Believe They Give This Away!
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on March 18, 2009
Are you looking for a fast, free way to resize a bunch of images? How about free templates for CDs and DVDs? Or free vector art? Could you use a designer-friendly diagramming and flowcharting application? Then this, my friend, is the article for you.
Free For All: Great Gratis Goodies
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on February 16, 2009
In this month's roundup of online bargains, we highlight Photoshop brushes, back-up software, an hourly rate estimator, a Photoshop plug-in to create favicons, and a seven-font type family. And of course, they're all free!
Free For All: And So It Begins
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on January 19, 2009
Take your pick of Photoshop brushes and fonts you'll love, t-shirt design templates, and a portable password manager. They're all free!
Create Dynamic Cast Shadows in InDesign
How-Tos: Written by Pariah Burke on January 14, 2009
Follow the lead of a hard-boiled private design investigator as he solves the mystery of InDesign’s missing cast shadow.
Ten (More!) Free Online Tools for Designers
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on December 17, 2008
Ten more free resources help you find and land clients; set your hourly rate; manage project proofing and signoff; find company logos; and more.
Ten Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know
Features: Written by Pariah Burke on November 10, 2008
These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren't copyrighted, explore color, and more.
Create Web Animations in Photoshop CS3
How-Tos: Written by Pariah Burke on June 22, 2008
Animate banner ad and graphic objects; transform their shape, size, color; or replace them entirely.