February, 2002 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Industrial-Cool Type

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 […]

Creating Basic Reflections

Adding a reflection can change the appearance of a surface dramatically. Rather than a flat, boring surface, you can give the illusion of shine or polish. And it can be as easy as one-two-three. We’ll start with a photo of a real object on top of a fake surface. To give the surface the illusion […]

On the Move to InDesign: Linking Two Text Frames

We start off with a simple lesson on how to link text from one text frame to another — and on the way, discover a pleasant advantage that InDesign has over QuarkXPress. Linking two text frames Linking text between two frames is easy. Unlike XPress, which uses special Link and Unlink tools, InDesign uses either […]

DeBabelizer Pro 5: The Ultimate Image Translator

Equilibrium’s DeBabelizer Pro has occupied a unique niche in graphics since its original release in 1989. For years it was the only program really adept at batch processing large numbers of images and animations with scriptable control over the most obscure qualities and parameters of any image. Its name comes from its ability to translate […]

The Art of Business: Negotiating with Vendors For Fun and Profit

For many graphic designers, particularly those specializing in print, vendor costs can be a huge chunk of every estimate. And in these days of economic malaise, when clients are paying close attention to the bottom line, your chances of winning or losing a job may hinge on the cost of vendor services to you. But […]

Printing the Olympics: The Xerox Olympic Preview

The indomitable energy of the Olympics is about to converge on Salt Lake City, Utah, where the planet’s winter sports elite will compete for gold, glory and endorsements for 17 days in February. The sport, individual achievement, and several thousand dreams that make up the Games will be played out on ice rinks, snow-covered trails […]

Under the Desktop: Hoping Your System’s “Minimum Requirements” Will Get the Job Done?

Are you tired of little white lies? You know the kind: the Enron cover-up or the blurbs featured on sides of software boxes and documentation, called "System Requirements." Certainly, fellow reader Kathleen Kosky is fed up. She works at a government agency as "the new graphics/web person they never had," and ran into trouble when […]

PowerBook vs. the New iBook

Now that Apple has released a 14-inch iBook, some folks are predicting the big screen consumer portable will encroach on sales of Apple’s high-end PowerBook line. To help determine which portable is right for you, MacCentral is doing a head-to-head comparison of the top-of-the-line PowerBook and the new iBook. For several days, I used a […]

Photoshop Layer Styles: “One-Click” Flexibility

Layer Styles can provide an ideal way to get the quality, speed, and flexibility that make for successful Photoshop solutions. With Layer Styles you can design, save, and reapply an almost limitless number of combinations of colors, tones, gradients, strokes, and images (in the form of patterns and textures), plus the dimensionality of bevels, shadows, […]