May, 2000 | CreativePro Network

Creating Synthetic Environments

Versions: 5, 5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Artificially creating scenes can be a challenge and one that’s called for frequently when working with stock photos. In this article, we’ll show you the techniques we used to give our conch shell image, shown in Figure A, a more natural-looking home, as shown on the cover. If […]

Creating a Page-Side Document Header in Word

Hey, just because you’re stuck doing work in Microsoft Word instead of some fancy desktop publishing program doesn’t mean you can’t break the mold every so often. For example, instead of going along with convention and putting the header at the top, the body in the middle, and the footer at the bottom, why not […]

Does Your Site Scream “Rookie”?

We all remember the first Web pages we created. At the time, we thought they were all that and a bag of chips. But looking back, they contained a number of things that just screamed "rookie," "amateur," "newbie." Now, that you’re a professional you’ve surely overcome your newbie ways, right? To make sure you haven’t […]

Souped Up Super Step And Repeat

Version: 4.1 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Super Step And Repeat is a cool new XTension included with the QuarkXPress 4.1 update. While QuarkXPress already has a Step And Repeat command, this new one lets you quickly and easily duplicate items, while simultaneously specifying transformations to them. Used in conjunction with other QuarkXPress features, such as […]

Getting — and Saving — The Picture

If you’re looking to buy a digital camera, you’ll be faced with a raft of decisions regarding features, resolution, price, and more. But there’s one factor in choosing a digital camera that often gets overlooked: the storage media format. Flash memory media has become popular for storing digital images. If you’ve used a digital camera […]

The Creative Toolbox: Back in Time

In the movie “Back to the Future” Doc Brown builds a time machine out of a DeLorean. Of course, calamity ensues and Doc’s friend Marty McFly ends up back in time. Marty’s visit to the past inadvertently ends up having an impact on his future. He then must find a way to put everything back […]

The Convoluted Path to Symmetry

Version: 4 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Creating symmetrical objects is something computers are typically quite good at. If you’ve worked with illustration packages like Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia FreeHand, then you know it’s not a particularly difficult task. There’s usually a tool you can use to reflect or flip the angle of an object. Well, […]

DICOweb Imaging System

DICO™ Imaging Process: The imaging method of the DICO process is based on a widely used thermal transfer technology. The DICOweb transfer technology uses a ribbon to image a surface. The width of this ribbon is close to that of a video tape and, similar to a video tape, the ribbon is housed in a […]

Extraordinary Images of Ordinary Life

Angela Cappetta was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and currently lives and works in New York City. Her work has begun to be acquired by private collections and museums worldwide such as The Victoria and Albert Museum in London and The Center of Photography at Woodstock. Angela’s work is often commissioned for publications such as: […]