Creative Tip: Quick Skin Tone Retouching in Photoshop.

Here is a quick Photoshop retouching tip that came up this month with a Seattle design studio. While working on a piece for a local non-profit, one digital photo was suffering from color problems in the skin tone highlights.

This particular image turned out to be a great example of a common photo retouching technique. Simply create a new layer and cover up the problem area with a patch of your desired skin tone. Then set that new layer to a blending mode of "Color" and voila, the skin tone is corrected.

Full Tip: Quick Skin Tone Retouching in Photoshop.

Source: Tip inspired by a recent phone support call from Hansen Design Company. We've been fielding an increasing number of Photoshop retouching questions in the last month.

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Tech Tip: Top 10 Font Tips over the Years.

Font-related tips have been a staple of this weekly tips newsletter. In honor of Craig Swanson's upcoming font management class, we thought we'd publish a list of the 10 most popular font tips from the last couple years.

#1: Garbled Fonts Troubleshooting Guide (12-11-2006)

#2: Font Manager Shootout (04-24-2006)

#3: Fonts & Mac OS X 2007 Update (01-15-2007)

#4: Microsoft Office complaining about corrupt fonts? (01-23-2006)

#5: WhatTheFont?! The font matching website (01-08-2007)

#6: PopChar X 3.0 helps find special characters (10-09-2006)

#7: The Fix for Garbled Text in Entourage Email! (11-21-2005)

#8: Explore alternate glyphs in OpenType fonts (11-27-2006)

#9: Make Suitcase play nice with InDesign fonts (01-08-2007)

#10: Two Type Specimen Book Utilities (10-23-2006)

The rank order is determined by the actual web traffic each tip has received over the last 12 months.

Source: CreativeTechs' font guru, Craig Swanson has spent the last month polishing his new full-day workshop Font Management for Designers and Art Directors that is debuting at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts this Thursday, April 19. Click here to register.

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Xtra Tip: Mac OS X Leopard delayed until October.

A quick update: Apple issued a statement last week that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has been delayed until October.

TUAW.com — Apple announces Leopard delays due to the iPhone

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