August, 2001 | CreativePro Network

The Creative Toolbox: Photoshop Cosmetology

Many of us cringe when we think back to “picture day” in high school. If only we could have had a few minutes alone with our portrait and Photoshop how much better life would have been. The good news is that despite its “image-editing powerhouse” reputation, Photoshop is a pretty decent makeup artist as well. […]

Importing Photoshop Layers into GoLive

Many Web designers use Adobe Photoshop or ImageReady to compose their Web pages before committing them to HTML. This process can be time-consuming; each layer needs to be exported, named and cataloged individually into your Web directory before you even start piecing it back together. Doesn’t leave much time for you to goof off and […]

Getting It Together with PageMaker 7

When asked to name the best DTP program on the market, most professional designers would likely offer up QuarkXPress, and a growing number would advocate Adobe InDesign. For those looking for an easy, inexpensive way to publish spreadsheet or database content, however, Adobe PageMaker 7.0 may be a better choice. The $499 program ($79 upgrade) […]

Design Doyenne: Branding in Motion

Dear Pamela, Having looked broadly at the range of work from Hornall Anderson Design Works in Seattle in my last letter, I want to focus this missive on the work the company is doing on the Web. What is fascinating here is the paradigm shift from the interviews I had with HADW just two years […]

dot-font: Easing Designers (and Readers) into E-Books

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 […]

FILTERiT4: Everyday Effects for Real Illustrator Users

Adobe Illustrator has never inspired the huge assortment of plug-in effects enjoyed by Adobe Photoshop users, but CValley’s FILTERiT collection has long provided an excellent assortment of Illustrator plug-ins. Version 4 of the $129 ($79 till 10/10/01) collection provides a number of amazing tools and should prove useful for anyone who uses Illustrator. Though plug-in […]

Plug-ins Key to Expanding Universe

3D animation is a fast-changing world, where job requirements morph as fast as the latest effects become recognizable and, therefore, obsolete. It’s virtually impossible for a company focused on refining its own software to deploy new effects as fast as the demand arises. Even simple “effects,” like procedural shaders to create various types of surfaces, […]

Electric Image Universe, the Sequel

The Electric Image Animation System — EIAS — was one of the first desktop 3D animation packages to make it to the cinematic big time, boasting special-effects credits for blockbusters such as “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” The latest release comes not from Play, Inc., where it foundered for several years, but from Electric Image, which […]

The Art of Business: Seven Simple Skills for Creating a Successful Presentation

It’s called a potential client, and every once in a while one walks in the door, or perhaps you’re invited to do the walking. Either way, it’s your chance to don a suit of confidence, spread out your dazzling wares, and with steely verve show the client what breathtaking results lie on the other side […]