October, 2004 | CreativePro Network

Design How-To: Working with Photos

This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine. Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to “Before & After” at a discount. Click here to learn more. The popularity of digital cameras, coupled with their relative ease of use, makes it easier than ever to incorporate images into documents. But unless you’ve spent some time developing a […]

Heavy Metal Madness: Pet Impersonators

When you don’t have young kids of your own, and you live in a neighborhood where trick-or-treaters are rare, your pets tend to end up having to dress up for Halloween. Ours always do, and in the last few weeks the pet costumes have been arriving in the mail from eBay auctions around the country. […]

Acrobat How-to: Softproofing PDFs with Acrobat's Preflight Tools

While preflight is usually the bailiwick of prepress houses sending files to printers, there are a number of things that can be used for softproofing files. One of the biggest concerns of users of Acrobat for printing is (all together now) transparency. So how do you know if there is transparency in your PDFs at […]

Framed and Exposed: What Film Photographers Already Know

Remember the early days of desktop publishing, when graphic design novices suddenly found themselves (either by choice or assignment) taking on layout and design jobs? Digital technology is having a similar effect on photography. Because of the low cost and extreme convenience of digital photography, many people are being cast in the role of photographer […]

dot-font: Out of the Past, and Over the Top

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: Seeing the Big Pixel

This story is taken from “Design Graphics Photoshop Studio Skills.” To buy this book click here. Those of us who cut our teeth on early painting and image-editing programs may shudder at the revival of pixelated images. We spent years trying to reduce the appearance of pixels in our images in order to get them […]

Photoshop How-To: Making Painted-Paper Illustrations

This story is taken from “Adobe CS Creative Studio.” Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount. Click here to learn more. One of the first art projects we did as kids was to create a picture out of cut-up pieces of paper. The fun was in deciding which color or finish of paper […]

Canon EOS 20D: Noiseless Images, Loud Shutter in 8.2-Megapixel Camera

To be honest, it’s getting tedious having to continually write about how Canon has “pushed the bar higher” or “changed the landscape of the digital camera market.” As a reviewer, it’s not that one wants to trash a product, but it’s difficult having to say the same thing over and over again without sounding foolish. […]

The Art of Business: Artist's Rep or Artist's Rip Off?

By day you create tedious corporate brochures and inane illustrations; by night you wonder if there is an artist representative somewhere who will recognize your talent and introduce you to A-list clients with bulging budgets and glamorous projects. Hey, we’re all human, but before you spend hours chasing down an agent who will, take up […]