This story is taken from "Speed Up Your Web Site." New Riders is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. The Web has been around long enough that most of us know the difference between a "good" Web site and a "bad" one. And while we all […]
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On a beautiful day in early June, I arranged 63 park rangers and four horses into a circle around my camera in Yosemite National Park. The occasion was the twelfth anniversary of the last time the rangers got together for a group-in-uniform portrait (see Figure 1). This was also the first time the rangers had […]
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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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A great way to save on your printing costs is to use two inks instead of four. You can also produce some incredibly striking images, and some cool effects, for print, Web, and artistic purposes. But which color mode is right for your project, Duotone or Multichannel? Let’s do a comparison. Duotone color mode takes […]
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This story is taken from & After” Magazine). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to “Before & After” at a discount. Click here to learn more. We’re accustomed to thinking of monograms as a relic of another era, one in which propriety and tradition were of utmost importance. But if you think of a monogram as a […]
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It is nearly impossible to consider the features of QuarkXPress 6.0 and not notice the massive pile of baggage crowding at the front door. The OS X question for Mac users fills a large suitcase, the InDesign vs. XPress smackdown takes up a huge trunk, and the very issue of Quark itself seems to be […]
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Congratulations, you landed the client based on your stellar personality, a few well-turned phrases, and an impressive portfolio. Now it’s time to develop and present your first full-fledged set of project recommendations. How do you go about putting together a set of recommendations detailing potential courses of action? The answer in a nutshell is know […]
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The dust is only now settling in the wake of Apple’s announcement last week of forthcoming high-speed Power Macintosh G5 desktops. A debate now rages online about how fast is fast and the validity of abstract benchmark tests when comparing different families of processors and diverse platforms. “Whatever” will be the response of most creative […]
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Each month Design Tools Monthly reviews some of the best plug-ins and XTensions on the market. Most of the mentioned products can be purchased through The PowerXChange. GoLive PayPal Wizard for GoLive Transmit Media has a free PayPal eCommerce Extension for GoLive that provides a wizard to easily create PayPal payment buttons from within GoLive. […]
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