I got a note from a loyal reader the other day with a page full of high-quality free fonts. When I say loyal, this reader goes all the way back to the mid-90s. Thanks for your continued support Wendy and I’m sure other readers will be thankful for the list of...
Foster D. Coburn III
Foster D. Coburn III built his first Web site in 1995 and he has been working exclusively in WordPress since 2013. He has used the Divi theme exclusively since 2015. Earlier in his career he was the author of 13 best-selling books on CorelDRAW and has been a contributor to numerous technology and graphics-related magazines. Foster has taken many projects, including this Web site, from the early design stage through to a finished piece. He has been a featured speaker at many graphics conferences.
When I mention “The Winding Rule”, you may think it has something to do with The Beatles song The Long and Winding Road. It might make for good listening while I try to explain, but they are completely unrelated.When a curve is drawn as a vector graphic,...
Just a couple weeks ago I walked by the famous Muscle Beach in Venice, California. Luckily I didn’t see anyone suffering from Roid Rage. Maybe it is because the other side of the sidewalk has various doctors offering to write prescriptions for California’s...
I got a note from a loyal reader recently that wanted to brag a bit about his son. It seems his son has designed a font by the name of Dinzy Minzy that is available on MyFonts.com. Go ahead and check out the font and you’ll see it is a commercial font that sells...
It always amazes me when a person using a very old piece of software is shocked that it isn’t working perfectly on a new operating system. There comes a time you need to upgrade and there is no other solution than to upgrade. I’m going to list versions of...
When I think of wagering, Las Vegas immediately comes to mind. Las Vegas is the most popular place in the US to celebrate New Year’s Eve, so it is only appropriate to do a font about wagering today. There are typically three outcomes when wagering. You can win,...
I don’t know how often you refer to our CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Multimedia Training, but I do it quite often. There is just no way I can remember everything included. As I was going over some thing yesterday, I was reminded of the important of converting outlines...
Over the past eighteen months, I have featured almost all of the individual lessons contained in CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed, CorelDRAW X5 Unleashed Advanced Topics and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 Unleashed. The few lessons that haven’t been featured individually are highly...
Hollywood was calling my name today and so it only made sense to choose a font that has Hollywood written all over it. The name and style of the Hollywood Hills fonts is no doubt inspired by the famous Hollywood Sign. It was originally erected to advertise a new...
When I first saw the name of today’s font, I immediately thought of legendary producer Stanley Kubrick. Some of his best-known films include Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut. While I...
I’ve been editing some artwork lately that was very poorly created. As I work through it, I sometimes find a group of a bunch of objects where it should be one object. Luckily there is an easy way to fix these objects….the magic Weld key. Those of you who...
I’ve been lucky enough to visit the Sistine Chapel in person on two different occasions. Standing inside the chapel and experiencing the amazing artwork is truly breathtaking. The biggest downside is that you share with experience with hundreds of other people...
