iStock Tip of The Week
Bigger Font Previews
In Photoshop CS2, Adobe added font previews (where you can see a preview of how each font looks, right in the Font menu itself), but the previews are so small, it's still hard to tell the difference among fonts. Luckily, there is a way to make those previews large enough so they actually are usable—just press Command-K (PC: Control-K) to bring up Photoshop's Preferences, then Command-9 (PC: Control-9) to jump to the Type preferences. In the Font Preview Size pop-up menu, choose Large, and your font previews will be significantly larger.
This Week in Before & After Magazine:

Hot Threads
Impressed by the Forometer
Books that have inspired
Kansas City - Here We Come!!
Adelaide OZalypse
Do our portfolios reflect our personalities?
Cage-Side

sbamara vs. DarklightMedia
See, they're penguins... and they're on television. See?
Voting for the Webby Awards starts in just two weeks. Just be ready for it, is all we're saying.
Photography Credits
Thinking Process by Aaltazar
Bunny boy by molotovcoketail
Super Hero by vinayaprashanth
Clown Blue by RUSSELLTATEdotCOM
The Amazing Cubicle Man by Torbenmedt
no by simonox
Crab Cartoon by KOSON
The Navigator by sdominick
king of the hill by Alija
Forum Juice
We're proud to unleash the new iStock forums on the eager public. See that colored bar underneath the avatar beside each post? That's the remarkable new iStock Forumeter™. It provides a concise scientific measurement of your iStockphoto Forum performance. We use the latest technology tracking tools for meticulous insight into exactly how you're behaving. These methods are far too complicated to explain. The upshot: see how involved a member is in the forums with convienent color-coding. We've also taken the trouble to label the more specific personality types around iStock.
But that's only half of it. Get a load of our built-in rUBBerizer. That's right; add images, links, and text styles, all without square brackets. Best of all, see a preview before you post and never get a broken image again.
Image Manager v0.3.2
Our man lauchenauer has come through with the latest version of his incredible Image Manager program. It's everything you need to make uploading to iStock quick and easy. The latest update has a ton of new features and fixes - read all about them here, and then download the program. Or check out the Pro Version for an even better uploading application.
Site Map
In order to justify putting out a weekly newsletter, we need to constantly add new stuff to iStockphoto. Pages, features, widgets, gadgets - the whole site is crammed full. Which makes it easy to get lost. Maybe you can't find that definition of pixel discoloration, or your Exclusivity Estimator. So we made a map. It's hidden in the bottom corner, next to the legal stuff. Happy hunting.
Meanwhile, In The Cage
What the h*ck is going on in there? New judges, quicker decisions, and some kind of f5-baiting thread that's long on speculation and short on details. Well, if this particular f5-baiting thread is anything like the past, you're all going to have to sweat a little before you find out. In the meantime, we dropped down the number of wins needed to more up through the victory masks. All those new Plata Bigote's look good on you.
Photoshop Seminar Stops
The Photoshop Seminar Tour continues to roll across the continent. If you missed catching David Cross and company in Vancouver, don't panic. The next month sees stops in Orlando, Boston, San Franciso, and Seattle. Check out the complete listings here.
Pimp My Vector Ride
Author: FreeTransform
Category: Design
A professional race car driver doesn't drive their rig straight off the showroom floor. They modify it to suit their own personal and demanding needs. Likewise, you don't need to use use Illustrator's factory presets just because everybody else does. Here are a few mods to get you in the fast lane and let you break away from the pack.
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