January, 2001 | CreativePro Network

Out of Gamut: Why Do High-Bit Editing?

Almost everyone who has a scanner does some high-bit editing whether they know it or not. Just about every scanner being made today captures at least 10 bits per channel, and when you use the scanner’s software to make edits, it’s operating on that high-bit data. It’s important to make your big tone and color […]

Notes From the Epicenter: The Webbys Play on

It’s that time of year again, and I don’t mean the holiday buying season: It’s awards-show season. The Golden Globes are just around the corner, and entertainment pundits are already making their Oscar predictions. “For your consideration” ads began appearing in Variety months ago, and awards show geeks like me are busy taking in all […]

dot-font: Room with a View

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 […]

Making Flash Roar

Everyone remembers the music from Jaws, the sound of the light saber fight in Star Wars, the comic sound effects of the Road Runner cartoons. Sounds help tell the story and enhance the mood, letting the audience know whether something is funny, scary, or important. The term “cinematic” gets tossed around a lot when it […]

Design Doyenne: Tracking the Barnbrook Virus

Dear Pamela, Finally had a chat with that world-traveling designer Jonathan Barnbrook, now back in his London office after treks to those diametrically opposed destinations Los Angeles and Denmark. Jonathan and his colleague Jason Beard work out of the Barnbook Studio in London’s Soho (complete with seedy sex shops viewed from the window, if one […]

Inside Photoshop: Adding Natural Textures to Graphics

Versions: 5, 5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows In recent issues, we’ve shown you various ways to create texture for your graphics. Following in that same vein, this month we’ll show you one of the easiest ways to apply texture to your graphics–scanning. This technique has been put to a lot of use to create graphics […]

Notes from the Epicenter: The Art World Comes of Age

I recently heard someone define the “Internet community” as “everyone affected by the Internet — that is, everyone.” That means consumers, designers, writers, deliverers, renters, politicians, corporate heads, financiers, Americans, Africans, Mexicans, artists. All of these kinds of people, and many more, have seen the Internet affect their world view, their reality, their living space, […]

dot-font: ONE for All?

For Position Only: Apple Walks the Tightrope

Apple Computer has always been caught between a rock and a hard place: The rock is the expectations of a dedicated core of professional users, who tend to be passionate about their Macs. The hard place is pressure from pundits, analysts, and shareholders to cut a swath in the broader Wintel market. After all, Wall […]