December, 2000 | CreativePro Network

Digital Video on a Shoestring

There’s little question that digital video is revolutionizing the movie- making process. But what are the limits of digital video? Can you make a movie with consumer-grade equipment on a budget that would hardly fund a single day on a traditional Hollywood shoot? That’s the challenge director Thom Steinhoff and his editor brother John set […]

Great Sites: Holocaust Memories Live in Media-Rich Site

This site doesn’t sell or advertise anything. It doesn’t ask you to register or fill out a survey. It will probably never be updated, and yet it will never be outdated. It is a site that exists solely for the presentation of its content. What a concept. The site is entitled Do You Remember When, […]

Add Form and Texture with the Lighting Effects Filter

Versions: 5, 5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows One of Photoshop’s most useful design filters is Lighting Effects. It allows you to apply a variety of lighting scenarios to your graphics as well as to textures. For such a useful filter, it’s not covered well in any Adobe literature or even the Help section. To pick […]

dot-font: “It’s [Still] Alive!”

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 […]

For Position Only: Got Your Provisions?

If you’re like me, you lost track of dot-com closures and cancelled IPOs back in June, and the preannouncements of lower-than-expected tech earnings began to blur sometime in November. The flood of this negative news, coupled with reports of power-supply shortages and the painfully prolonged presidential election, is enough to make any level-headed worker bee […]

Sony DSC-F505v: Would You Like Some Camera with that Lens?

The DSC-F505v marks Sony’s entrance into the 3.3-megapixel digital camera fray… sort of. The camera does, in fact, build on a 3.3-megapixel CCD, but with a maximum, uninterpolated resolution of only 1,856 by 1,392, the F505v is technically only a 2.6-megapixel camera. In an effort to get a camera with a 3.3-megapixel product to market […]

Image Grabber: Stock Photo Search Done Right (and Fast)

Graphic arts professionals are constantly on the lookout for productivity-enhancing tools that can cut down on the overhead of a design business, leaving them more time for their creative pursuits. The current release of Image Grabber from Random Eye Technologies is a nifty Web-based utility that can streamline the picture-research process. Image Grabber lets you […]

Turn a QuarkXPress Document into a Web Page with BeyondPress

Version: 4.1 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows If you’re pulling double duty as a desktop publisher and a Webmaster, you may be laying out pages for print in QuarkXPress and then re-creating them in an entirely different Web authoring application. If that’s the case, you’re also probably mumbling under your breath, “There’s got to be an […]

Notes From the Epicenter: Left Behind No More

The splash screen on the news before Al Gore’s concession speech last week read “Election 2000: The Final Chapter.” Besides sounding like one more bad sequel in a played-out horror movie franchise, the blurb is an eerily accurate and timely assessment of the state of the San Francisco political scene. Meet the New Boss Our […]