August, 2009 | CreativePro Network

Scanning Around With Gene: Thirteen Decades of Fine Printing

If you’ve ever received a printed award certificate, bought an actual stock certificate, or been given a gift certificate from a local store, you’ve probably seen the work of Chicago’s Goes Lithographing Company. You could certainly call Goes the kings of certificate printing, but they also do a whole lot more. Goes began in 1879, […]

Two Sony DSLRs Sport In-Camera HDR

Sony introduced two ? (alpha) DSLR cameras with a new generation of Exmor CMOS sensors and Bionz image processors, which make it easy for active shooters to get the best shot and capture clearer images — without missing their favorite moments. The ?550 (14.2 megapixels) and ?500 (12.3 megapixels) cameras provide excellent picture quality, particularly […]

New Full-Frame DSLR from Sony

Aimed at experienced shooters looking for value and sophisticated SLR performance, Sony introduced the full-frame ? (alpha) a850 camera, plus a new 28-75mm F2.8 lens that’s about $800. The ?850 model shares the same 24.6 megapixel sensor and most features of the flagship ?900 camera, introduced last year, but will be available for just under […]

Buy Softpress Freeway, Get Snow Leopard Too

To celebrate the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Softpress will be offering a free copy of Apple’s newest operating system with every full-priced retail copy of Freeway Pro or Freeway Express sold through the Apple Stores, PowerMax or The Mac Store. Famous for its ease-of-use and clean standards-compliant code generation, Freeway is […]

Adobe Publicly Apologizes About its Customer Service

Adobe posted a PDF entitled “Open Letter to Adobe Customers” to its web site this morning, apologizing for recent customer service glitches.

Creating Percentage-based Styles

So you think you have your entire layout finished, but along comes your client and demands that you make the font slightly smaller or larger everywhere. If only you could change one style and have everything update…

Join me during one of my InCopy/InDesign seminars!

September 2009 is Learn InCopy month at InCopySecrets.com! Whether you’re a newbie wondering if InCopy could possibly work at your company; or you’re a veteran InCopy workflow team member in need of higher-level training, tips, tricks and troubleshooting help, I’ve got something for you. Full-day InCopy seminars First, I’m really excited to be able to […]

HTML Editor Taco Updated to Version 2.5

Taco Software released Taco HTML Edit 2.5, the latest edition of its popular HTML and PHP editor. The new Component Library lets you select one of 20 components, customize it, and insert it into an HTML document. From Slideshows to Pie Charts, from Accordion Controls to Scrollable Tables, the Component Library has the widgets that […]

New Version of Tiffen's Photo Fx for iPhone

The Tiffen Company, manufacturer and distributor of award-winning photographic accessories, announced Version 2.0 of its popular Tiffen Photo fx creative effects software for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners. Photo fx is the recipient of the prestigious DV Black Diamond Award for 2009. The definitive set of digital optical filters features simulations of many of […]