June, 2003 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Massin, the Unclassifiable Free Thinker

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 […]

Photoshop How-To: Eliminating Dark Under-Eye Circles

This story is taken from “Secrets of the Photoshop Masters” (Avondale Media). Creativepro.com readers can purchase this DVD at a discount. Click here to learn more. When a photographer takes our likeness, we want to look the best we possibly can. Unfortunately, nature doesn’t always oblige. Blotchy skin, razor stubble, under-eye shadows — all can […]

Heavy Metal Madness: First Day at Letterpress High

The promise of the Web was that it would build communities of like-minded people, expand individual expression and bring vast warehouses of knowledge to otherwise barren desktops. While some of those goals may have been met, I’ve found through my involvement with letterpress printing and other topics, that joining Web communities can also be like […]

Page Layout Tips: InDesign Techniques for QuarkXPress Users

This story is taken from “InDesign for QuarkXPress Users.” Peachpit Press is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. The recent news that QuarkXPress 6 is shipping stirred up a hornet’s nest of interest — not only in that product but also in its rival Adobe InDesign. […]

Acrobat Tips: Applying Custom Distiller Settings

As a person who makes PDF files all day every day, controlling the many settings in Acrobat Distiller can be a real problem. Distiller is the software part of the Adobe Acrobat package that actually creates PDF files. This all-important software is in fact a software RIP, similar to the controller on a PostScript printer, […]

The Art of Business: Print Buying Made Simpler

If you ever get a chance, don’t pass up the opportunity to attend a seminar or talk given by Dick Gorelick, president of Gorelick and Associates. Dick is a 25 year veteran of the industry both as a buyer and seller, and his firm surveys some 25,000 print buyers a year, so he’s got a […]

Digital Camera How-To: Shooting Fireworks

This story is taken from “Exploring Digital Photography” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Digital cameras aren’t known for their low-light exposure ability. In fact, they can be quite troublesome when trying to take nighttime shots, let alone shots of a fireworks […]

Under the Desktop: Hold or Fold Your Photo Flash Cards?

A careless brush of my elbow the other day — a frequent occurrence I admit — sent a bunch of media cards flying around my desk. The deja vu of that moment sparked some concerns about the way creative professionals use their digital-camera memory cards and their expectations for long-term storage of their data. At […]

Business Creativity: Understanding Branding

This story is taken from "The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design." New Riders is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. When building your business, or extending your market reach, it’s important to develop your brand. But a brand is […]