July, 2011 | CreativePro Network

Creating Instant Charts With Chartwell

You can create charts and graphs on the fly from live text with the ingenious font Chartwell.

Photo & Video Features in Panasonic's Lumix FZ47 Camera Are Worth a "Wow!"

Panasonic has announced a new digital camera, the Lumix DMC-FZ47, that will ship in August 2011 for $399. Some of its specifications are nothing unusual for a modern point-and-shoot: a 12.1-megapixel sensor, automatic and manual controls, HD video capture, etc., etc. But the DMC-FZ47 also has these noteworthy features: * ability to manually change shutter […]

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 63

Scripts, videos, blog posts… oh my, we have a lot of good links for you today!

Workamajig News for iPhone & iPad Users

Version 10.5.4.5 of Workamajig (project management software for ad agencies and others creative professionals) was written with Apple’s iPhone and iPad in mind. Because the new version is written in HTML5, it’s even more compatible with the mobile devices than previous versions of the software. Creative Manager Inc. is continuing its long-standing policy of not […]

Photoshop Plug-In for Color Correction and Editing Updates

iCorrect EditLab Pro, from PictoColor Software, is meant for color-critical Photoshop work. The company claims that the new version 6.0 makes masks, curves, sliders, and even selections obsolete. Furthermore, PictoColor Software says that when you initiate color corrections and edits in iCorrect EditLab Pro (whether those changes are selective or global), one change won’t adversely […]

Photoshop How-To: Merge Two Images for a Custom Collage

Few projects have the budget for a lot of custom photography. Yet if you use too much stock photography, you risk looking like everyone else. The answer is to merge two or more images into something unique, and the best tool for that is Adobe’s Photoshop. In the following tutorial, I’ll show you how to […]

Scanning Around With Gene: Kids and Guns

For reasons best left to psychologists’ speculation, young kids, especially boys, seem predisposed to want to shoot things. I spent a good many hours in my youth playing army, cowboys and Indians, and other games involving play firearms. It wasn’t until I was a teenager that my dad took me to a shooting range and […]

Practical Business Tips for Creative Pros

The Graphic Artists Guild is an advocacy organization working to uphold and improve standards and protect the rights of creatives. It publishes the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook, the benchmark for Pricing and Ethical Guidelines for the art and design industry. Now some of the content of the Handbook is available as a free, downloadable PDF. […]