April, 2001 | CreativePro Network

Building Your CD-Based Portfolio

Living the creative life often means looking for new clients, and prospective clients have an annoying habit of wanting to see portfolios before they hire new talent. Of course, merely selecting the content for a portfolio is a gut-wrenching, angst-filled, sadomasochistic process of self-evaluation that few of us want to face. After enduring that, creating […]

Inside QuarkXPress: Producing a CD Jewel Sleeve Insert

Applications: QuarkXPress 4.x, Photoshop 5.0 Operating Systems: Macintosh, Windows Whether designing a CD jewel sleeve insert for personal or professional use, the document setup is the same. The way in which an insert is produced also changes little–the difference being whether you’re printing the insert to a desktop printer or high-end press. Where the creativity […]

Notes from the Epicenter: Six Degrees of Summer Camp

I grew up in Baltimore, and by the time I was 11, Mom decided it would be a good idea for me to go somewhere during the summers (reasoning that the city was stiflingly hot and besides, things like horseback riding and wilderness hiking are good for building character). So for six years I traveled […]

A Postcard from Silicon Valley

Dear kids, Your father and I are having a wonderful vacation in California. Last week we were in L.A. We visited my sister in Santa Monica and got to see Universal Studios and Venice Beach. But nothing was as exciting as when we went up north to San Jose to AdobeLand. I didn’t know what […]

For Position Only: Giving Publishers a Shot in the Arm

If all the recent bad tech news has got you down — and if your company has a few bucks squirreled away for training and travel — you might want to skedaddle to Bean Town next week for the annual spring Seybold Seminars. The week-long event at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston promises to […]

Inside QuarkXPress: Using Contrast to Fake Transparent Text

Application: QuarkXPress 4.x Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows The technique of applying transparent (or screened) text over an image is a useful design approach to enhance a page layout. QuarkXPress can’t actually create transparency, but in this article, we’ll show you how to create the illusion of it, as shown in Figure A. Figure A Creating […]

Out of Gamut: Realizing Good Intentions with Rendering Intents

As tempting as a no-nonsense dismissal of rendering intents might seem — “My intent is simply to get some good-looking output!” — choosing the right rendering intent in Photoshop and other applications is important if you want accurate, predictable color. Many would-be color-management heroes get caught up in the widespread confusion about rendering intents, and […]

Inside Web Design: Creating Animated GIFs with Illustrator 8 and ImageReady 2

While it’s true that ImageReady has a number of the great features that allow you to modify graphics, it just really wasn’t designed to be the end-all be-all for creating graphics. Granted, you can do a few things in it, but it’s really more of a Web support program for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. […]

The Associated Press Takes Preflighting Online

Think you’ve got preflighting headaches? AP AdSEND — the digital advertising delivery service of The Associated Press — handles some 1.6 million printed advertisements yearly. These days the process is moving along more smoothly, however, now that the company has found a preflighting solution that fit its requirements. Pick up any Sunday paper, and chances […]