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"If they didn't make it, how are the rest of us going to do it?"

That was a thought Twittered by a journalism industry veteran after JPG, the crowdsourced magazine I ran, went under three months ago.

In a time when many magazine business models have hit a dead end, the efficiency of user generated content seemed like a viable solution to many—including the investors who brought JPG back this month.

As an editor who's spent most of her time with community created content, here’s what I think about user generated co More...

Print designers are particular about quality. Paper type, color profiles, kerning, etc.; every detail counts in creating a polished final product. But there's one detail that doesn't make the difference it should.

Generally speaking, designers use TIFFs (containers for high resolution image files) when designing with photographs because the TIFF file format maintains the full quality of the image. JPEG is a file format that was created to compress images into significantly smaller file sizes in order to make them more flexible for things like use on the Internet. The difference in file size is substantial. For example, exporting a raw file taken on my digital camera as a TIFF created a 18 MB file; as a maximum size JPEG it was 2.6 More...