September, 2003 | CreativePro Network

Acrobat Tips: Commenting on PDF Comments

I have a love-hate relationship with Adobe Acrobat’s commenting capabilities. Adobe likes to tout electronic commenting as a huge time-saver that makes the review process significantly more efficient. To be sure, electronic commenting does speed things up. But as a writer who is typically on the receiving end of marked-up Adobe PDF files, it seems […]

The Art of Business: Thriving through Unconventional Collaboration

One of the joys of my job is keeping in contact with designers and design firm owners and seeing how their companies grow (or shrink) with the times. Back in the dot-com heyday everyone seemed to be a brilliant success, but in the last few years, as we’re all painfully aware, even the talented have […]

Paper Tips: Fit the Design to the Sheet

This story courtesy of PaperSpecs.com). Debbie was the meanest art director I ever knew. She was a tough-talking blonde with two tattoos who played rugby for a local Chicago team. When she lost her temper, she would narrow her eyes to slits and begin waving her X-acto knife suggestively. Everybody cleared out on those occasions, […]

Under the Desktop: Backup and Archive Down

Data archive and backup were on my mind at this month’s Seybold San Francisco 2003 conference and expo. But that was natural, since I was part of a panel on the topic. But I was surprised to find that other content creation professionals were also dealing with the issues. Unhappily, my session, Archives for the […]

InDesign Tips: Creating and Displaying Transparencies

The import, creation, and display of transparent objects in InDesign continue to be the page-layout programs heads-above-the-rest feature. But do you know all the ways in which transparency appears in InDesign? Drop shadows, feathered effects, and knockouts are all considered transparencies in addition to opacity controls and blend modes. Not understanding all of InDesign’s transparency […]

Bit by Bit: Adding New Plug-ins to the Photoshop Kit

Over the years I have developed a methodology for working with Photoshop images. I have color correction under control. I have cast removal pretty well in hand. I have sharpening honed to a razor’s edge. I have the duotone function mastered. I am fluid with Photoshop’s tools, as much as anyone would be who uses […]

dot-font: Finding Fonts

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 […]

Digital Photography: A Marvelous World In The Round

This is me hard at work at MacWorld CreativePro Expo a couple months ago. I was shooting a picture of Jook Leung, a master of VR photography. I was surprised to return home in early August and visit Jook’s website where I found myself in the round, 360 degrees worth. At a time when QuickTime […]

Heavy Metal Madness: Life and Printing Go On

Author’s warning: The following column is a self-indulgent, teary-eyed, “closure” piece about a fallen co-worker. I am justifying it on several flimsy levels, and counting that creativepro’s editor-in-chief is an emotional wreck when it comes to the subject. (Editor’s note: She is.) I found a statistic that showed cats are favored by “creative” people almost […]

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