This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine. Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to “Before & After” at a discount. Click here to learn more. Who doesn’t want a million colors at your disposal? Think how much fun it would be to design with as many inks as your computer can simulate! But if your […]
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Opening and saving native Adobe Illustrator files (.ai) practically becomes rote to anyone who spends quality time with Illustrator. But if you’re new to Illustrator CS or thinking of upgrading, you should know that some changes have taken place that may leave you a bit bewildered. The simple act of opening an older Illustrator document […]
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There are plenty of graphic arts business books out there, and most contribute a great deal to the understanding of the business of graphic arts. But like Elvis, there’s only one king, and that perennial bestseller in the category is Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook of Pricing & Ethical Guidelines. It scored an Amazon sales rank […]
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Tweaking performance could be called a job-related hobby for creative professionals. Many of us spend time and hard cash to eke out a bit more speed from our systems and applications. Yet as with so many things in life, the challenge is to think outside the box. As I’ve pointed out there are many obvious […]
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This story is taken from “The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow! Book.” Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount. Click here to learn more. One of digital artist Sharon Steuer’s favorite tools are the custom calligraphic brushes in Adobe Illustrator. And one of her favorite ways to use them is to apply areas of […]
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Even if you’ve never shot with a digital camera, it’s not hard to see the advantages over shooting with film. Instant feedback, no film processing, speedy transfer to your computer for instant editing, cool new camera designs – all of these factors are obvious to even the most die-hard film fanatic. No, for years now, […]
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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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Perhaps it’s the voyeur in me, or maybe it’s a desire to live in the past, but one of my favorite sources of pleasure is looking through other people’s old scrapbooks. These collections of ephemera from a person’s life, or from a period of particular importance in their lives, serve as great historical documents and […]
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This story is taken from “The 100 Best Adobe Acrobat Tips & Tricks.” If you routinely make PDF files for onscreen viewing or presentations, it’s important to put your best face forward. And that means controlling how your readers view the document when it first opens. You can set parameters such as whether or not […]
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