Jeff Gamet - who has written 139 posts on Planet Quark.
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X," from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn't writing about the graphic design world, he's talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer's Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.
Problem: corporate communications people don’t know where to get copyright-free or royalty-free images for their presentations and internal printed communications. They also don’t understand copyright rules. Solution: the venerable Copyright Clearance Center now has a pre-licensed stock photography service, named ReadyImages. For one annual fee, all the employees of a company may download any of more [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 29, 2008
Hey, you paid for them already! Get excellent images at: www.archives.gov www.digitalvaults.org www.nsf.gov/news/mmg www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix www.nasa.gov/multimedia http://phil.cdc.gov/Phil/home.asp www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/multimedia.aspx www.usmint.gov/pressroom www.nps.gov/pub_aff/imagebase.html www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary www.photolib.noaa.gov www.nih.gov/about/nihphotos.htm (Note I saw this list in FPO Magazine, a remarkable publication for magazine designers and publishers!) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F12%2F29%2Fpublic-domain-images-from-the-us-government%2F'; addthis_title = 'Public+Domain+Images+from+the+U.S.+Government'; addthis_pub = '';
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Google plans to archive as many as 10 million photos from Life Magazine’s archives dating back to the 1750s ‹ many which have never been published before. The photos will be available on Google Image Search pages after being digitized for the first time from negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. Google claims that about 20% of the [...]
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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