Here’s something perfect for a Friday, or any day when productivity isn’t paramount and you’re looking for something aimlessly creative and fun: do-it-yourself glitch art courtesy of German multimedia designer Georg Fischer. Just head to the glitch images page at github where you can upload a jpg image and proceed to wreck it (in the […]
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Dateline: Eastern Kazakhstan The weather has cleared and we’re making good time across the seemingly endless rolling grasslands that cover this half of the ninth largest country in the world. We’re still spending a lot of time dodging potholes that would be considered mappable geographic features in any other country, but this road from Astana […]
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From time to time we proudly feature free fonts, free patterns, and other goodies here at CreativePro, because really, who doesn’t like free stuff? But when it comes to pointing you to cool freebies we’re practically amateurs compared to the folks at The Public Domain Review. The site features curated collections of images, text, audio, […]
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I love Myriad Pro from Adobe, but jeez… I’m getting tired of it. It’s an Adobe Original, first released back in 1992, though it didn’t really bubble up to my consciousness until it started shipping with InDesign and the Creative Suite. Before that it was just “look at that cool font that Apple started using!” […]
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[Note: This guest post was written by Peter Gold, who has been using and training both FrameMaker and InDesign for a number of years.] Levi wrote: Could someone explain to me the key differences between InDesign and FrameMaker and when I would use one or the other for technical writing? This is such an easy […]
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Adobe has announced a new version of the PDF Print Engine, the platform used to render print outuput in digital presses, large format printers, and platesetters. The top new features of Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 include the following: Mercury RIP Architecture, which can manage multiple instances of the Print Engine for faster throughput in […]
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Don’t miss part 1 and part 2 of this series on how to create beautiful tables! In the final installment of this three-part series, we’ll look at the most common form of table content: numbers. Text entries in tables follow most of the same conventions as text in other contexts, although hanging indents are used […]
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Recently, Sony introduced the Cyber-shot DSC-QX100 and DSC-QX10, two “lens-style” cameras that can attach to smartphones and give them the look, feel, and functionality of premium compact cameras. Even though they look like lenses, these are actually whole cameras (minus a viewfinder), that offer 18–20 megapixel sensors, 3x–10x zoom, multiple shooting modes, image stabilization, and manual […]
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Take control of the look of your lists with these tips on formatting them with paragraph and character styles.
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