January, 2003 | CreativePro Network

Photoshop How-To: Recreating Polaroid Image Transfers

Making Polaroid transfers is typically a photographic process done by transferring an image onto a wet or dry receptor surface. The process offers an endless amount of creative possibilities, often resulting in beautiful, unique artwork. Normally, you’d create a Polaroid transfer using Polaroid film, but with a little help from Photoshop, you can create the […]

Under the Desktop: It’s on Fire(Wire)! Hardware and Software Too Hot to Handle

After reading my previous column about the Macworld Expo held earlier this month in San Francisco, you might think everything new at the show was to be found in Apple’s new PowerBooks. No way. There was plenty of hardware and productivity-related products to interest the professional content creator at the show, for those on the […]

Nikon D100: Everything Old is New Again

The Nikon D100, the latest in Nikon’s line of digital SLR cameras, offers photographers frustrated with the limitations of point-and-shoot digital-picture-taking a new lease on the art of photography. At $2,000 street price, the D100, similar to Canon’s EOS D60 (see “Canon EOS D60: More Pixels, Less Bucks, Great Camera“), is about twice the price […]

dot-font: Type Goes Global

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 […]

InDesign How-To: Creating and Printing Transparencies

It’s been almost a year to the day that Adobe introduced InDesign 2.0. One of the key features of version 2 is InDesign’s ability to create and preserve transparency effects. In honor of that event, we present two stories about transparency. Part one, from Element K Journals, gives an over view of using transparencies, including […]

Design How-To: Cropping Photos for Impact

This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine. Every designer at one point in time has to work with a lackluster image — a headshot of a company CEO, for example. You have to include it in your layout, but how to make it interesting? Instead of using it full frame, try cropping it […]

InDesign How-To: Using PageMaker Templates for a Corporate ID

Creating a corporate identity is hard work. Not only does the logo have to be memorable and instantly recognizable, it must also adapt itself to a variety of media and applications. When it comes to creating your signature look, who wouldn’t like a little help? With the new PageMaker plug-ins for InDesign CS, Adobe asked […]

Bit by Bit: Pirate Software and Educational Ethics

I teach at California Polytechnic State University — known as Cal Poly to most of you– in San Luis Obispo. Over the past four years my course load has steadily increased to more than half time. My schedule now includes classes in typography, color quality control, and image management. Teaching is interesting and fun, and […]

Web How-To: Going Live with GoLive

Excerpted from “Real World GoLive 6” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Picking a program in any field, whether it’s Web publishing, illustration, page layout, or even accounting is akin to joining a political party. People have strong feelings about products that often can’t […]