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Scribus

Scribus is an Open Source page layout tool for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that allows designers to lay out documents in a similar manner to QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign. Scribus supports professional publishing features such as CMYK color separations, ICC color management and PDF creation.

See also: desktop publising (DTP)

Style sheets

extend. Stylesheets
Style sheets, as used in page layout software, are used to mark up the appearance of a section of type, or even just one character. For example a style sheet can be set up so that, at the click of a mouse, a paragraph can appear in bold type and in blue. Customized keyboard shortcuts can also be applied to style sheets to make the formatting process even faster.

See also: Casscading style sheets, Keyboard shortcuts

Sponge tool

The Photoshop sponge tool changes the level of saturation of colors for a selected area of a graphic.

3D Studio Max

extend. 3DS Max
3D Studio Max is a Windows only 3D modeling and animation software application. It is used extensively in computer games rendering and modeling.

See also: Reviews of 3D Studio Max, Autodesk and Alias Merger