March, 2012 | CreativePro Network

A Do-It-Yourself Manual for the Creative Person

The following is excerpted with permission from 344 Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment by Stefan Bucher. Copyright © 2012. Pearson Education, Inc. and New Riders. Do you know what makes you tick creatively? Most of us don’t. We may know we like certain things or that we gravitate […]

Presses Stop Rolling for Encyclopedia Britannica

Is nothing sacred? First Kodak stopped developing cameras, and now Encyclopedia Britannica has shelved its print version after 244 years of publishing. The publisher of the substantial, gold-embossed tomes says that it cannot compete with the Internet in terms of breadth and timeliness. Whereas the printed Encyclopedia had physical heft and intellectual weight, Wikipedia and […]

Will Online Infographics Replace PowerPoint?

A new service launched that aspires to take the mediocrity and expense out of infographics. Rather than rely on Powerpoint’s ho-hum charts or on pricey custom graphics, people whose task it is to present visual data have an alternative in an online infographic-creation service from Visual.ly. Visual.ly says that in a world of data overload, […]

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Web Design How-To: Get Started with Responsive Web Design

With the introduction and proliferation of smart phones and tablets, the way websites are designed is changing. As more websites are visited by users of tablets and phones, your design has to accommodate a myriad of screen sizes. In more traditional web design workflows, designers and developers target a specific screen width, then let smaller […]

One-click Depth of Field in Photoshop CS6

Adobe has been teasing us for months now with videos of new features in the upcoming Photoshop CS6. Some of the new stuff has been practical and geared toward productivity, for example, migrating presets form one version to another. Others have been pretty jaw-dropping, such as new content-aware features that let you reposition elements seamlessly. […]

What Do Angle Brackets Mean in the Links Panel?

When I opened this file, I saw brackets in the Links panel where the page numbers should be!

Glamour Magazine Limits Photoshop Use

The controversy about retouching photographs isn’t new. In an age where everyone has access to Photoshop, retouching photos is expected. Judging by the covers of many magazines, the world is full of physically perfect people — everyone, that is, except us. But lately questions have arisen about how much Photoshop is too much. Now Glamour […]