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» CSTT Podcast: Create a letterhead in InDesign

It’s a new Sunday and that means a new episode of my podcast is airing. This week on the Creative Suite Tips & Tricks Podcast we are taking a look at how you can easily create a good looking letterhead inside of InDesign using the Master Pages to set it up. This weeks episode is brought to you in part by XLD Studios - Web, Design, Media, providing you with top class web hosting and web design services. 

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» Hot Friday News

I really must call today "Hot Friday" because here, that’s exactly what it is with warm temperatures here. The news and goodies for today are pretty hot for themselves as well so there is no sparing on the hotness

• if you are in the Philadelphia area in the US and you are interested in Photoshop and the Creative Suite  don’t miss out that Matt Kloskowski is coming to the Philadelphia Downtown Marriot on June 3rd with some other cool presenters in a free seminar about the Creative Suite 3. You can view the seminar page for more details and to sign up!
   
• Recent rumours suggest that Apple might be renaming and revamping its .Mac service. If they did it would really be a welcome upgrade since honestly the service isn’t that much to be excited about, at the moment.
   
• If you are looking at starting a photography portfolio website now at the start of the summer and want a unique website with unique design check out the portfolio package from XLD Studios. We have also a special discount code that’ll grant you 15% off the package, just enter the code "BM0806" when you are signing up. The offer is valid through June 30th! (If you are not looking at that level of uniqueness, just wait a couple of days for an exciting package from them )
   
• Some users of Adobe products are reporting file corruption when working on network stored files and blames it on the latest 10.5.3 update to Leopard on the Mac. (PC users are not having the problems). Adobe blames the corruption solely on Apple and the updates they did in 10.4.6.

» Wednesday Newsflash

 It is once again Wednesday and this time it is before a long weekend here in Sweden so I have the entire week off form school at least. There is no time off for blogging (it’s fun) or from web design work. I’m also brought in to work in the camera store on Friday and Saturday. Makes for a pretty good long weekend.

• The guys over at Layers Magazine has got a new issue out today. It’s looking pretty cool and has got some really nice articles in it! If you are not a subscriber, definitely go to the Layers Magazine website and check it all out.
   
• A little self-pimping. XLD Studios has revealed a brand new version of their website and client center which are now all fully integrated into the same look and feel. It’s been a lot of hard work on it and there are still a few more goodies to come online for the big hosting anniversary coming later this month on XLD Studios where there’ll be specials the whole month, starting tomorrow!
   
• If you are a Firefox user and wants to be able to view EXIF data for photos on the web, then check this little plugin out. It is called Firefox exIF and once installed you’ll be able to view EXIF data on photos right in the browser, it’s pretty swell.

Also do check out the post before this with a cool old bleached preset, for free. You’ll be seeing about a new preset per week here on the blog and later collected in a resource center. I’ll be spreading the presets over ACR and Lightroom and sometimes perhaps release for booth.

» Recapping 2007 - What’s happened

Very soon 2007 is past history and we are into the new year of 2008 before I’ve even begun to write this post I’ve already picked half of the categories that I post into because a lot has indeed happened. If you want to read some more what’s happened in ‘07, check out the posts by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski, Scott covers Adobe, Photography and NAPP and Matt covers what’s been happening to Lightroom in 2007. Because there have been two lengthy and I must say great posts from them about that, I’ll not venture into that as much in my post but I will cover on how 2007 has been to me.

For me, 2007 has been a very good year with a lot of things kicking up to speed, especially in the second half. I’ve had the tough periods this year that I very much hope that next year won’t have with a lot of personal things happening although I finally do feel that they are easing off and I’m a more happy person now.

Beginning of 2007…I hardly remember much of it really except that I’d just gotten my Nikon D50 and was shooting a lot and I mean a lot of experimental photos and slowly but securely started to gear into landscape photography. Also my web design business, XLD Studios, started to advance a lot as I got quite a few clients, one that continues to approach me with new and great projects. I think the whole beginning of 2007 was very photo centric especially in march when I got to do work experience in a camera store, the store where I now even get called in when they need someone extra.

I can’t say a lot important for this post happened until after the summer, I mean, life rolled on and school rolled on and it was soon holidays. Now after the holidays things started to happen that is now reflecting me to who I am, I really felt my design business kicking of and especially my photography, mostly during the summer. I got several very nice shoots (if I may say so) that I’m happy with and what’s made my year is the fact that I’ve won four photographic awards, Image of the Week at NAPP, Editors Choice at NAPP, Daily Deviation at deviantART and Photograph of the Month for December at Photography Corner. I want to send a thank you to the NAPP staff for selecting those awards, to the folks at deviantART for their awesome support and especially thanks to Kev Lewis who featured my photograph with a daily deviation, also a big thanks of course goes to the Photography Corner community whom I’d been away from most of the year because I was very busy but now returned to and they are as awesome as ever, thank you for your ongoing support.

Now, there are some people I really must thank extra that I really can’t thank enough for their ongoing support;
First off, Tove, Ellen and Johanna, my three best friends in the world! You are just awesome, I can’t put more words on your awesomeness, because there are none in this world!!!

Secondly and this is where all the other folks come I need to thank extra, because I really do only have two steps, I want to thank Tim L. Walker for his support, trust and everlasting projects, it has been a fun year ; Susanna Cotter for her everlasting support and for being there all the time (and also for her apparently everlasting featured as well ;)) ; Juha M. Kinnunen for his so inspirational work ; my family, for their support and trust in what I do and for allowing me to continue doing it, finally also I want to extend a more general thank you to every viewer of this site whether you read the blog, watch my tutorials or watch my photography, an extra special thanks to those of you that find time to comment on the posts.

Finally I want to end with the current state of my sites and what I plan for them; Starting with XLD Studios, it is progressing very well and I have some great plans for the site that I will not reveal as of now because they are only in the planning stages, you will find out later on though This site, I’ll continue updating it with new stuff, blog posts, tutorials and some other resources that I will launch now in the new year as well, I hope this will be the year of this site, I will also continue to update the CST&T podcast but I do need to find another host site for it since it is currently draining all my bandwidth and thus I can’t update it right now. As some of you might be aware, I recently launched Bernskiold Photography, a new kinda site that is based on Smug Mug, where I won a years pro membership, now it has been awesome these weeks I’ve had it up and I will keep on using it for long so it is there you’ll find my full photo home from now on I’m also going to be continuing to be active on booth deviantART and Photography Corner as well, because I think booth communities are great (oh and Smug Mug as well).

So to all of you reading this and to your friends and families I wish you a very Happy and Prosperous new Year and that you will find nothing but joy this year and if you have any problems as of now, I hope they will solve as we enter another exciting year that will for me at least, be filled with a lot of new (and therfore scary) things but also a lot of wonderful and cool things as well!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

» The Friday News

Alright so here we have the current Friday news with some cool goodies and some things to check out during the weekend as well! Also, tomorrow I’ll be posting a new little list of blogs I visit often so check that out tomorrow

Scott Kelby and Terry White’s giftguides are released!

Past week we saw the release of Terry White’s holiday gift guide only to this week see the release of the guru, Scott Kelby’s annual holiday gift guide which is the feature of the Layers Magazine and luckily of course, there is an online version, so go and check out Scott Kelby’s Holiday Gonzo Gadget Gift Guide over at the Layers Magazine site! My own gift guide will be coming in the next week when I have had a little more time putting all together!

Upcoming contest tip!

Without saying too much I’m just gonna give you a heads up of a big contest arriving very soon on the awesome site Photography Corner! So make sure you register at their forums and get ready for the big contest! (I promise you that it is worth the while and that it will be as large as I’m saying it is ;))

Discount coupon for y’all!

I have a little discount coupon that will give you a great 20% off a web design from XLD Studios! When ordering the design or requesting a quote, make sure to input in the message field also the coupon code, which is: “EB30pc” and 20% will be drawn off from the quote/order total!