April, 2002 | CreativePro Network

Macromedia MX: An “Office” Suite for the Web?

"What the Web can be." Macromedia seems to be taking its slogan very seriously with its recent announcement of the Macromedia MX product family, which encompasses all the major tools in its belt: Flash, Dreamweaver, FreeHand, Fireworks, and Cold Fusion. The MX moniker across the product line symbolizes Macromedia’s aim toward creating a complete family […]

Making a DVD Video Portfolio: Putting It All Together

In the first article in this series, we talked about DVD basics – how DVDs work and the hardware and software you need to make your own DVD demo reel. In the second article, we showed you how to use Adobe Photoshop to create interface elements – menus and buttons – for your DVD. In […]

dot-font: Language Culture 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 […]

Under the Desktop: Making Time for Color Profiling

Most of us know that color calibration is good for us — like bran. Some of us may have even incorporated profiling into one or more parts of our color workflow. But how often do we need to check its goodness? Is it daily, like the proverbial apple that keeps the doctor away? Once a […]

On the Move to InDesign: Text Selections

It’s hard to find anyone who works with page layout software who doesn’t have to select text. Although InDesign’s default settings make this the same as in QuarkXPress, there are a few differences you should know about. Straight out of the box, InDesign’s text selection techniques are the same as XPress. A double-click selects a […]

Nikon Coolpix 2500: Handy 2-Megapixel Point-and-Shoot with Cool Design

The point-and-shoot digital camera market is awash with me-too competitors, few of which have anything new or unusual to offer. Today’s standard fare includes a 2-megapixel CCD, a 2x- or 3x- optical zoom, and Compact Flash or SmartMedia memory expansion. Almost every camera on the market comes with image cataloging software, and some combination of […]

The Art of Business: Designs on Writing about Design

I’m always of two minds when new books are released for design professionals. The first is: Right on! that publishers still publish books for this market, considering the competition from the all-consuming Web and how few business people actually take the time to read professional books anymore. When a good book hits the market, it […]

Understanding Typography Controls with CSS

This story is taken from “Inside Web Design” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) aren’t a new thing. The CSS standard was finalized by the W3C back in 1996. What’s new is that most of the popular browsers […]

For Position Only: Preserving Transparency in PDF Workflows

Designers love transparency and transparent effects — the digital panache that comes from gradient meshes and blending modes. Transparent effects combine the colors of all the pixels in a stack, instead of just the topmost opaque pixel. But if designers love transparency, I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that your prepress provider doesn’t. In PostScript […]