March, 2011 | CreativePro Network

New Illustrator Course

“Illustrator Insider Training: Rethinking the Essentials” is the first installment in a series of courses on lynda.com designed to show experienced Illustrator users to how master core features and build art more efficiently. Mordy Golding leads the course. Adobe Illustrator has evolved dramatically over the years, and many creative professionals may be missing out on […]

Review: Portrait Professional 10, Standard Edition

Pros: Easy to use, elegant program that enhances photographic portraits with skill and sensitivity. Just mark out the position of the features, and the program will do its job. However, there are enough controls there to keep compulsive fiddlers happy for hours. Cons: It’s too easy to get carried away and produce over-smoothed results. But […]

New from Lensbaby: Sweet 35 Optic

Press Release Lensbaby, manufacturer of award-winning Creative Effects SLR camera lenses, announced the addition of the $180 Sweet 35 Optic to its Optic Swap System. The Sweet 35 Optic, a 35mm selective focus optic with an internal 12-blade adjustable aperture, creates a Sweet Spot of sharp focus that photographers can move around the photo by […]

1980s Song Lyrics as Typographic Triumphs

The Neighborhood Studio has released three prints that will win the heart of anyone who listened to top-40 radio in the 1980s. Each print is numbered and signed by the artist and is part of an edition of only 200. All are on 110 lb French Durotone Constuction Paper. “Beat It,” from the Michael Jackson […]

Transform Instagrams into Magnets

Fans of Instagram — a free iPhone app for manipulating and sharing photos — are responsible for a flood of retro-style images on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Here are just two examples: By philcampbell By yto Soon there will be a way to transform those online images into magnets. A company called StickyGrams is in […]

Enterprise Edition of Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite Now Out of Beta

As of today, the Enterprise Edition of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is out of beta and a formally shipping product. Many of publishing’s big guns (Bonnier, Condé Nast, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, etc.) have been using the Enterprise Edition beta for months to produce tablet apps that complement their print magazines. Adobe calls this […]

Webinar for the Self-Employed: Take the Sting Out of Paying Taxes

Press Release Get legal with your taxes, save money on tax preparation, and maximize your self-employed protections and deductions. Attend “Self-Employment: Taking the Sting Out of Paying Taxes”! (Applies to U.S. residents only.) Speaker and long-term self-employed professional Pariah S. Burke lets you in on the facts and secrets of taking the sting out of […]

Easy & Free Way to Prototype iPhone & iPad Apps

Press Release The Realizer lets you create your very own presentation prototypes of iPhone and iPad apps. Hence the name Realizer–because it actually enables you to realize something. With the help of our partners Nascent Digital, we initially designed the Realizer for ourselves–as a way to better communicate our vision when presenting app concepts to […]