July, 2000 | CreativePro Network

SmartSaver Pro 3.0: Big Web-Graphics Help for a Small Price

Windows users looking for a one-stop Web-graphics utility should turn their discerning eyes to Ulead SmartSaver Pro 3.0. Though beginning life as a simple optimization utility that could shrink the size of GIF and JPEG images, SmartSaver has evolved to provide nearly every function a person could need to prep graphics for the Web, offering […]

Adobe InDesign Brings OpenType to the Desktop

As discussed in the first part of this series, OpenType is a new font format that promises to bring creative professionals the best of all possible typographic worlds. Not only does it bridge the technical gap between PostScript and TrueType, it also resurrects design elegance through its built-in support for ligatures, through the precise control […]

Eye on the Web: Nabbing the Right Name for Your Domain

What does a name say about who you are? If you’re a flesh-and-blood person, chances are it doesn’t say a lot. My name, for instance, is Andrea. Three syllables that give no clue as to whether I’m nice or mean, garrulous or shy, clever or vapid. My name is not “column-writing-woman,” or “she-who-keeps-cats,” both of […]

dot-font: A Rare Font Specimen

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 […]

There’s a Lot to Love About Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

Being the die-hard Mac fans that we are, it’s sometimes difficult to admit that every so often Microsoft does something right. But, we have to give credit where credit’s due–their recent release of Internet Explorer 5.0 is by far the best browser to hit the Web. In fact, we’re wondering if maybe there’s something about […]

Better Typography Through Automation

Version: 4 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows In the old days, typographers put themselves through a lot of agony in their quest for perfectly spaced type. They’d laboriously insert metal shims between letters or use power saws to cut mitered edges on handset type characters, all to get a better fit between letters that we can […]

Learning to Use Color on Your Web Site

As we go through life, we learn that there are folks who are just natural at some things, while others of us have to work hard just to get by. For instance, some people can pick up a musical instrument in a few days, while it may take others a lifetime to learn. Some of […]

Bringing a Spot Color from Photoshop to QuarkXPress

Version: 5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows In the old days before the introduction of Photoshop 5, one of the fastest ways to start a heated discussion was to ask a group of designers how to print a spot color out of a Photoshop file. If you already knew the answer, it was fun to watch […]

The Creative Toolbox: One Approach to Mastering Flash

As I look back at my ascent of Macromedia Flash’s learning curve, one milestone that stands out as a major achievement was when I fully understood the intricacies of Flash’s Tell Target command, which is used to manage and manipulate nested Movie Clips. I had known for some time that this command holds much of […]