June, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Open All or Close All in the Book Panel Menu

If you work with long documents, would you wish the Book panel could open and close all documents? Here’s how to add this!

Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans

Excerpted from Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans: 365 Graphic Design Sins and Virtues: A Designer’s Almanac of Dos and Don’ts by Tony Seddon, Sean Adams, John Foster, and Peter Dawson. Copyright © 2012. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you […]

Insider Software Puts Your Fonts in the Cloud

Insider Software, makers of the font management solution FontAgent Pro, and Web-based font catalog WEBSIWYG, have announced the world’s first commercial cloud-based font server. The new service provides powerful font management for companies on a subscription basis. Subscribers to FontAgent Pro CloudServer™ can: • Maintain a centralized, cloud-based library of verified fonts for users to […]

New Tech for Making Cinemagraphs

By now you’ve probably at least heard of cinemagraphs, those hip, creepy-cool cousins of the animated GIF, where one part of a photo moves in an endless loop while the rest of the image is frozen. If you’ve seen a Harry Potter movie where the photos in a newspaper move, you’ve seen a cinemagraph. If […]

Color Splash Studio comes to the iPhone, iPad

App developer MacPhun LLC has released a mobile version of its highly-rated Color Splash Studio photo editing application. MacPhun is the company behind photo editing apps like PhotoPal, Perfect Photo, and others. Their latest app allows you to use your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad to apply special effects and color adjustments with masking to […]

Review: Adobe Illustrator CS6

Pros: 64-bit support, fun-to-use pattern feature, significantly better performance with certain files, gradients on stroke, and better results with image tracing. Cons: Updated user interface uses more space, making for limited real estate on lower resolution displays. Image tracing still relies on confusing settings. Score: 99 out of 100 It’s hard to believe that 25 […]

Character Underlines, Paragraph Rules… and the State Flag of Texas

Learn the different options available with Paragraph Rules and character Underlines, and use these options to create the state flag of Texas.

Scanning Around With Gene: The Shagadelic Seventies

I have a love hate relationship with the Seventies. Since I turned 14 in 1970, it’s my “coming of age” decade, which is always a bit of a mixed bag. It was a decade that began with the United States still firmly entrenched in the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon in the White House. We […]

Twitter Does Rebranding Right

More tales from the Land of Rebrand. Last week I had fun piling on with the rest of the internet in giving thumbs down to Kraft’s rebranding their snack division as something called Mondelez. But this week, the news is of a company doing rebranding right. Twitter has decided to consolidate its branding into one […]