July, 2000 | CreativePro Network

The Little Shop of Colors

The first color-measurement device I tested was the Colortron. That clever instrument was my trusty companion for several years, as I dragged it around the world, demonstrating it to people who attended my seminars. What is a Colortron, you ask? The Colortron is a spectrophotometer used to gather color information about a reflective or transmissive […]

Eye on the Web: Microsoft Weaves a New Web

I’m all for technology. Since I was a kid, I’ve imagined a way cool future where we replicate our meals, a la “Star Trek;” zip to work in a hovercraft like George Jetson; and speak to our kitchen appliances like the castaways in “Lost in Space.” I know videophones are but a blip away, and […]

Picture-Perfect Printing: The Epson Stylus Photo 870 and 875DC

Epson’s Stylus Photo 875DC printer comes on the heels of the recently released Stylus Photo 870. The printers are identical in all major printing specifications and are essentially narrow-carriage versions of the Epson 1270, but the 875DC adds a PC card slot and an adapter for CompactFlash (CF) memory cards. This feature is designed to […]

dot-font: A Dialogue with the Typographic Past

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

The Creative Toolbox: InDesign Gets Real

As early adopters of Adobe InDesign can attest, the initial release of Adobe’s “Quark killer” was a little rough around the edges. Despite requiring huge amounts of RAM and a speedy computer, version 1.0 omitted a few significant features that QuarkXpress users were accustomed to having. With version 1.5, Adobe addresses a good many of […]

Managing Your Images

Version: 4 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Picture management is an important part of every project. Since the images inside your QuarkXPress documents are just low-resolution placeholders, as illustrated in Figure A, knowing the location of the real images is crucial to getting good output. When it’s time to print the document, QuarkXPress locates the original […]

Epson Stylus Photo 2000P Promises Archival-Quality Prints

Inkjet printers have made amazing leaps in image quality over the past few years, to the point that you can print photographic images of stunning quality with models by Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark and Canon. As impressive as these images can be, however, a harsh reality remains: Most photos printed with desktop inkjet printers will fade […]

Epson’s PhotoPC 3000Z Vies for Top Image-Quality Honors

Competing head-to-head with venerable favorites from Nikon and Olympus, the $999 Epson PhotoPC 3000Z stands out as Epson America’s most ambitious digital camera to date. In image quality, this 3-megapixel model rivals the best that Nikon and Olympus have to offer for the price, and the camera packs enough features to satisfy even serious shutterbugs. […]

Eye on the Web: PC, Browser, Action!

There’s no better panacea than a good movie. A fast-paced adventure film can make light of a rainy day, a tear-jerker romance can make a dateless night more bearable, and a screwball comedy can make troubles seem further away. Americans make no bones about their love of movies. We flock to theaters on weekends, idolize […]