August, 2000 | CreativePro Network

Sidebar: Halftoning and Halftone Cells

Halftones are nothing new, and in fact, have been in use since the late 1800’s. Traditionally, halftones were created via a photomechanical process, which is still sometimes used today: Light passes through a negative image and a halftone screen, exposing a piece of film with a pattern of dots. The dots are evenly spaced but […]

Scanning 101: Setting the Right Resolution

Your first goal as a conscientious print designer is to create the highest quality scanned images for your clients. But too often designers interpret this responsibility as a mandate to scan original artwork at very high resolutions, which produces large files that eat up disk space, are difficult to transfer to a service bureau, and […]

Out of the Digital-Photography Closet

I have switched from film to digital photography, and it happened so subtly — so gradually, so naturally, so effortlessly — that I hardly noticed. I have advocated digital photography for some time, writing about digital cameras, and I have carried a digital camera into battle for several years. But I always had a film […]

Using Curve Control to Enhance Image Quality

Versions: 5, 5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Among the numerous methods of image correction, Photoshop’s Curves feature is still one of the best. By learning to master curves, you’ll be able to improve color casts, enhance image detail, and adjust the contrast of an image, all from a single dialog box. A lot of color […]

Eye on the Web: Steal This Movie!

Recently my two-year-old nephew came for a visit. "Computer," he said, pointing to the decal-adorned monitor on my desk. That got me thinking of all the words children learn these days, as part of their basic lexicon, that didn’t exist when I was learning to speak, at least as far as two-year-olds were concerned. And […]

dot-font: The Visual Language of Letters, Signs, and Symbols

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

For Position Only: Can Print Catalogs Survive E-Commerce?

I love to shop. If I can sneak a few hours to myself on a Saturday afternoon, sans hubby, child, and dog, you’ll find me at Nordstrom, indulging in a new pair of black shoes, maybe a couple of tops, and heck, since I’m alone and in a good mood, I’ll splurge on (yet another) […]