July, 2009 | CreativePro Network

Free For All: Free for Web Designers

Free for All is twice-monthly for the summer, which gives me the opportunity to do more specialized installments. This time around, you’ll get resources and tools especially for Web designers. If that’s not your thing, browse past columns — there’s plenty to please everyone! All-In-One Web Elements Design Kit Do you start your Web design […]

Digitize Your Slides and Prints

It’s time to start using the pictures we took before the advent of digital cameras. Many of us have two lives as photographers: The “slide and negative days” prior to 2000, and the digital age that followed. But what about all of those great images we captured prior to the digital age? Shouldn’t we incorporate […]

Obama’s Looking for a Few Good Designers

His team is taking applications from designers online. Guess which software program they want their designer to have “advanced skills” with.

Delete Images from Multiple InDesign Graphic Frames Quickly

Need to delete a whole bunch of images (or even all the images) in your file at once? This free script makes it snappy!

Stock Photography Conference

Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) is putting the future of the stock photography front and center for its members. With one eye on economic recovery and other on emerging technologies, PACA’s 14th Annual International Conference will take place at Miami’s world-renowned Eden Roc, A Renaissance Beach Resort & Spa, from October 16-18, 2009. The […]

New Book on Photo Composition

Alain Briot, author of Mastering Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style, states that, “The personality of the photographer must be present in the image for an artistic photograph to have value.” And in this book he sets out to teach the things that are essential in achieving this goal. Following his successful first book, Mastering […]

New dekePod: Vector Type in Photoshop

Most everything in Photoshop is made of pixels. Don’t get me wrong, pixels are fantastic. For the present, they’re the only means we have to render a continuous-tone image in the digital realm. But they are ultimately finite. And they don’t respond positively to enlargement. Type is something altogether different. Although Photoshop shows type in […]

TypeTalk: Change Line Spacing in Word

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. If Ilene answers your question in the blog, you’ll receive one Official Creativepro.com T-Shirt! Q. Is there a way to control line spacing in a Microsoft Word document besides the limited single, 1.5, and double options? […]