February, 2001 | CreativePro Network

Canon EOS D30 Delivers SLR Excellence at Bargain Price

Have you been pining for a digital SLR but been too chicken to sell your car or house to finance the purchase? Canon has been thinking about you. The eagerly anticipated Canon EOS D30 targets digital photographers who want the power and flexibility of an SLR with removable lenses, but who don’t have $5,000-$20,000 to […]

The Creative Toolbox: Exploiting GoLive Actions

Imagine receiving a complete toolset as a gift one day. Socket wrenches, wire cutters, drill bits, along with tools you don’t even know the names of, much less how to use. Of course many tools in the set are valuable, but because you’re not quite sure what they’re for, you find yourself never really using […]

Notes From the Epicenter: A Portal Is a Portal Is a Portal

Now that the AOL Time Warner merger has been officially approved (and the pundits’ visions of an Alan Greenspan-helmed mega-corporation ruling the world are about ten steps closer to being realized), it’s time to sit back and see what the new media-technology super-company can do. Or rather, what it can’t do, as it’s the rare […]

Adobe Reveals New Technologies for InDesign

Ordinarily features planned for future versions of software are closely guarded secrets. Just remember the arsenal of lawyers who swooped down on several Web sites last summer when screen shots of Photoshop 6 were posted. However, in a move that has raised eyebrows, the InDesign team has begun revealing technologies that may or may not […]

Inside Photoshop: Enhance Your Images with Photographic Edges

Excerpted with permission from Element K Journals Application: Photoshop 5/5.5 Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows Have you ever wanted to add a unique element to an image, but weren’t exactly sure what it needed? An easy way to add impact to an image is by creating photographic edges. This technique originally stems from photography, but in […]

The Bitmap to Flash Success

Sometimes a line drawing just isn’t enough. Photographic bitmapped images can add depth to the background of a Web site, enhance buttons and other interactive elements, and take the place of video footage. Just ask any advertising exec: Photographs are incredibly efficient at communicating subtle and abstract ideas such as comfort, happiness, experience and reliability, […]

dot-font: The Envelope, Please

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 […]