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How-To's Day is a regular feature of the Design Weblog in which we give you five highly useful how-to tutorials—four from around the Web, and one created specifically for you by yours truly. How-To's Day is the first, third, and, if there is one, fifth Tuesday of every month.

It has even spawned a new, all Photoshop tutorial version:  How-To's Day:  Photoshop Edition.

2005-04-05 Special All Creative Suite 2 Edition:

• Illustrator CS2:  Live Trace & Live Paint
  By Dave Cross / NAPP

• Photoshop CS2:  Vanishing Point Tool
  By Deke McClelland / Total Training

• InDesign CS2:  Footnotes
  By Jamie McKee / InDesign Magazine

• GoLive CS2:  Package for GoLive
  By Lynn Grillo / NAPP

• Acrobat 7:  Adding Page Numbers
  By Donna Baker / Planet PDF

2005-03-31:

• Graphic Design: Practical Typeface Selection
  By Cameron Moll

• Illustrator: Creating Customizable Dashed Lines
  By CreativeCow

• Graphic Design: 9 Pain Points of Typesetting
  By Charles Purdy/CreativePro.com

• InDesign: Document History
  By David Blatner/InDesignUpdate

• Photoshop: Working with Levels
  By TutorialWiz

2005-03-22:

• Graphic Design: Picking Perfect Colors
  By Before & After Magazine

• Photoshop: Hot Buttered Text
  By TutorialWiz

• Corel DRAW: Ray Effect
  By Inside Graphics

• Flash: Building Scrollable Text Boxes
  By Metamorphosiz.com

• InDesign: Data Merge
  By Digital Media Designer

2005-03-01:

• Creative Suite:  A Designer's Guide to Transparency for Print Output
  By Adobe

• Illustrator:  SuperHero Type In A Single Bound
  By Before & After Magazine / Adobe Studio

• Freehand:  Using a Blend for Irregular Shapes
  By Mike's Sketchpad

• Photoshop:  Airbrushing Tips And Tricks
  By Tutorial Guide

• After Effects:  Creating Powerful Motion with Simple Expressions
  By Talid Al Khatib / CreativeCow.net

2005-02-15:

• Photoshop: Making Aero Fly
  By Pariah S. Burke

• Quark:  Get On the Web XPress
  By Angus McKelvey

• Painter:  Turning a Photo Into an Oil Painting
  By D Laurent

• Acrobat:  Optimum PDFs
  By Mac Design Magazine

• Photoshop: Traditional Media and Photoshop:  A Fantasy Illustration Come True
  By Nicolas Fructus

2005-02-01:

• Illustrator: Curl, Warp, and Fold Photos
  By David Nagel / Digital Media Designer

• Color Management:  Calibrating Monitors In Windows
  By Jay / Toss the Box

• Photoshop:  Chrome Text
  By 80Four

• Quark:  Creating Print Styles in QuarkXPress 6
  By ISU College of Design

• Corel Painter: Cloning Techniques
  By David Nagel / Digital Media Designer

 2005-01-18:

1. InDesign: Using Character Style Sheets
   By Elisabetta Bruno and About.com

2. Corel Draw:  Create Custom Icons For Your Computer
   By Mormegil and WinCustomize.com

3. Quark:  Synchronize Text Across Multiple Layouts
   By QuarkParticles

4. Photoshop:  Paint The Sun in Photoshop
   By Tutorials.biz