October, 2000 | CreativePro Network

Design Doyenne: Cool Brittania!

Dear Pamela: As you know, London is a haven for design mavens. The anticipation begins with the flight on Virgin Atlantic where the stewardesses in oh-so-red red uniforms stand against the purple plush interiors and chirpily ask if “Madame would like Baileys Irish Cream.” Virgin also provides in-flight goodies (individual TV screens, soft translucent travel […]

Notes From the Epicenter: Dumped in the Slow Lane by DSL

There was a time in San Francisco when having DSL was even cooler than having one of those Sony robotic dogs. Mentioning your new DSL service was guaranteed to make you the center of any cocktail party conversation. “I wish I had DSL,” envious friends with dial-up connections would whine. People would look at you […]

dot-font: The Type Show Goes On

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 […]

Adding a Search Engine to Your Web Site

Good site navigation is an essential means of making sure your viewers find what they want on your Web site. That’s pretty obvious stuff. The real questions are how much is it going to cost you, or your clients, and how much of your time is it going to take to implement such an arduous […]

Scanning 101: Sharpening Your Images

Today’s scanners — even low-cost models aimed at SOHO users or consumers — do a good job of capturing the subtle tonal gradations in black-and-white or color photographs. But whether as an artifact of the scanning process itself or as the result of an out-of-focus original, digital images created with a desktop scanner are often […]

Not Much Needs To Be Said When You Lay Out A Good Photo Spread

Unless you work for a one-man (or woman) operation, chances are you’ve often been asked to lay out a photo spread for something you know little or nothing about. It all starts innocently enough. An editor comes up with a story idea, which is assigned to a reporter. The reporter brings along a photographer, who’s […]

Digital Video 101: Choosing the Right Camera

If you find yourself in a panic when you hear the words “paper or plastic” or “which dressing would you prefer,” film and video production may keep your mind reeling: The process can often seem all about making choices, whether you’re focusing on pre-production, production, or all the fun that follows the shoot. One of […]

Out of Gamut: Photoshop 6 Gets Smart With Color

I’ve spent the past few columns making the case that when it comes to Photoshop, there’s no perfect RGB working color space that works equally well in every situation. Now that Photoshop 6 is shipping, however, I’m happy to deliver the good news that you’re no longer stuck with only one RGB color space at […]

Great Sites: A Curiously Strong Argument for Using Frames in Web Design

Do you revere or revile frames? You wouldn’t think that the addition of a single tag to the HTML definition could cause so much controversy. And yet there’s little agreement over the usefulness of this now relatively well-established construct. The implementation of frames in HTML had a rocky start, largely because the browsers of the […]