April, 2011 | CreativePro Network

Create a Painterly Portrait with Illustrator’s Bristle Brushes

Excerpted from The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book by Sharon Steuer. Copyright © 2011. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. To receive a 35% discount on this book plus free shipping in the continental U.S., go to the Peachpit Press Online Store and enter the discount code CS5WOW during the checkout […]

When smart guides turn blue…

Smart Guides were introduced in InDesign CS4. By now most of us have probably encountered them, those green and pink smarties that pop-up when we are moving objects around the page or resizing or transforming objects. But have you encountered the blue ones yet?

Patch Day for InDesign and Snow Leopard

April 26 brings patches to InDesign for IDML and PDF export and Snow Leopard for font problems

Sign Up Now for Type Design Workshop in PDX

At the end of this four-day workshop, you will be proficient in the FontLab font-creation software, and have received instruction in contemporary type design from Veronika (“Vik”) Burian and Jose Scaglioné of the TypeTogether type foundry. All that, and it costs just $395 if you register through the Portland Type Foundry by Thursday, April 28, […]

This Logo Design Workshop Will Be Live and Online

On his PagePlane blog, designer and author Chuck Green recently proposed an interesting experiment: a logo design workshop that takes place in real time via Basecamp (sort of a private forum in which you can share images as well as text). Workshop participants will partake in a critique of a new designer’s work; Chuck’s comments […]

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 57

From paper to pixels, ink to electrons, we’ve got you covered when it comes to InDesign information!

Ellen Lupton Leads Free Class on Exploring the Design Process

Brainstorming is a great place to start when you’re trying to come up with new ideas. But there’s a whole world of techniques you can use to extend your thinking and get at the best solutions to design problems. In a free 1-hour webinar, Ellen Lupton and her MFA students at Maryland Institute College of […]

New Tool for HDR Photography

The Oloneo company says that its new PhotoEngine is the only app that gives you full, real-time control over light and exposure in High Dynamic Range (HDR) and RAW files. PhotoEngine runs on Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 PhotoEngine Features * HDR ToneMap * HDR ReLight * HDR DeNoise […]

Extract Vector Logos from PDFs

The other day, I was in the process of extracting a vector logo from a PDF file, but Illustrator refused to launch because I already had more than a dozen programs open. Instead of restarting my computer, I decided to see if I could extract a vector logo from a PDF using only Acrobat. And […]