One of the most time-consuming tasks that graphic designers encounter is creating clean, accurate selection masks of complex subjects. Details like hair and objects with transparent edges are almost impossible to select with the marquee tools and the magic wand. For quite a while, the best masking tools for Photoshop were found in third-party products […]
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It is time to get back to the basics. How can we become more complete print production professionals? What can we do to enhance our customer’s projects and make them better, more noticeable, and, hopefully, increase their ROI? It always begins at the beginning — that is, the input meeting to give the creative team […]
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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 […]
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