We asked the writers and pundits who contribute to creativepro.com to review 2001 from the perspective of product releases and news events for creative professionals. The events of September 11 cast a shadow on all of us. We cannot think about the past year without replaying the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and […]
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Forget the Hatfields and the McCoys, or other famous blood feuds. Or the weekly rumble in the ring. The most bitter grudge match in the computing arena is still to be found between Mac and PC fanatics who advocate their platform over all others. Long ago, I participated in this pastime. But my status has […]
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With less than a week to the major gift-giving holiday of the year, it’s time to switch into high gear. This column is for the digital photographer’s spouse, significant whatever, loved one, and person with a worried frown on his or her face. It’s the annual PlanetPhotoshop Holiday Gift List for Digital Photographers. There’s not […]
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Shooting to bolster the lower end of its digital-camera line, Nikon released the Coolpix 885, an update to its earlier 880 model that includes many design elements of the less-expensive, lower-resolution Coolpix 775. Aimed at users who want a high-resolution camera in a small package, the 885 packs a lot of features — many borrowed […]
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it,” said Alan Kay, the inventor of Smalltalk (which became the inspiration and technical basis for the Macintosh and subsequent windowing-based systems). The quote is particularly apt at year’s end when we have a tendency to wax poetic about the wonderful opportunity of starting anew. […]
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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 […]
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I learned the hard way; you don’t have to. This year, determined to use the technology I so regularly write about, I decided to send out digitally printed Christmas cards to friends and family. But I leapt headfirst into an online printing service only to find that hindsight is indeed 20/20. The final card, featuring […]
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If you’ve been contemplating buying yourself, or someone else, a digital camera this holiday season then you’ve probably already discovered that there’s a huge array of cameras out there. With seemingly every camera and electronics company in the world making digital cameras, trying to figure out which one is right for you can be maddening. […]
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Soon after graduating art school I found myself a respectable job at a service bureau. There I got my first taste of Adobe Illustrator 88. Although its feature set would be laughable by today’s standards, at the time it was a revolutionary application. It’s amazing to see how this modest application that was created to […]
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