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Illustrator How-To: Designing Print-Friendly Greeting Cards with Sarajo Frieden

This story is taken from “Adobe Master Class: Illustrator Illuminated.” Peachpit Press is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. Sarajo Frieden’s Illustrator work is whimsical, colorful, and full of texture — which in PostScript parlance can mean complicated paths laden with points. But Frieden knows that […]

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Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Stitching Seamless Panoramas without Photoshop

Recently I’ve become intrigued by the creative possibilities inherent in panoramic images. In my book Creative Thinking in Photoshop, I explained a procedure in which I created an image of the 20-foot south wall of my studio. In that case I manually stitched together in Photoshop a series of photos I had taken with a […]

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The Art of Business: Plan It. Bill It. Track It. Make Money.

Ever since the advent of the Internet, software programs for creatives (other than Acrobat, Photoshop, and their ilk) have become the forgotten stepchildren of the industry. But that doesn’t mean software developers haven’t been plugging away, and that includes development in the very non-sexy area of project tracking and billing. Programs like Studio Boss, TimeCache, […]

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Illustrator & Photoshop How-To: Creating Custom Portraits

Creating or acquiring customized artwork has typically been time consuming and expensive. However, by combining Illustrator’s drawing capabilities with Photoshop’s painting tools and color technology, you can make your own professional quality illustrative portraits in no time at all and, better yet, free of charge. Step 1: Set up your document. To begin, select and […]

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Under the Desktop: The Who, What, Where, and Why of System Performance

Evaluating the relative performance between content-creation platforms can be very difficult. Deciding which criteria matters is tough, and sometimes the process can even become socially disturbing (that darn Mac-vs.-Windows thing). Then again, amid all the facts and figures, it’s easy to forget the most important part of the performance equation: you. As expected, I received […]

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Bit by Bit: Why Your Photoshop Color Separations Are Wrong — and How to Fix Them

Recently I got involved in a project studying the gamut of color available printing with CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) inks versus that of several expanded-gamut printing processes. Expanded-gamut processes are those that use more than the typical four ink colors to express color images with brighter greens, reds, and blues. Pantone’s Hexachrome is […]

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dot-font: Wading into the Dutch Type Library

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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InDesign Tips: Controlling Line Breaks with the Hyphenation Slider

It’s a small detail but it reveals a lot about your page-layout skills. Bad line breaks and poor hyphenation can doom a design and interfere with the reader’s enjoyment of the text. Controlling H&Js in many programs involves entering numeric values to set line-break limits and hyphenation stacks — a not terribly intuitive process. InDesign […]

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