September, 2001 | CreativePro Network

Two Views of the Twin Towers

It’s been a week since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Like you, at creativepro.com we found it difficult to focus on anything else as the tragedy unfolded. The images being beamed to us on television and through the Internet were horrible and mesmerizing. While our prayers go out to anyone and […]

Great Sites: A Metaphoric Stroll Through the Shelburne Museum

Situated on the shore of Lake Champlain on 45 acres of Vermont’s verdant Champlain Valley, the Shelburne Museum offers an ideal setting for its collection of New England folk art, paintings, and historical memorabilia. The 37 buildings that make up the museum are best toured in person, but the museum’s Web site does an admirable […]

dot-font: The Zapf Album

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 […]

Nikon Coolpix 775: Small Camera, Big Pix

It doesn’t matter how good your camera is if you don’t have it handy when that great shot presents itself. If you often find yourself thinking, “If only I had brought my camera,” then you may want to take a look at the Nikon Coolpix 775. This $449.95 2-megapixel digital camera competes directly with Canon’s […]

The Creative Toolbox: Off the Beaten Path with Flash and LiveMotion

You have some vector animation skills. You cut your teeth on tweening objects from point A to point B in either Flash or LiveMotion. Scaling your objects, rotating them, and adjusting their transparency all come easy to you now. And if you happened to catch my last article on Animating Masks, you can create subtle […]

The Art of Business: A Little Help from Your Friends

No one needs to tell you that growing a business isn’t easy, particularly if you’re the type that so dearly prefers to stay on the creative side of things. But letting the business side languish can leave you spinning your wheels because of unresolved business issues, unrealized goals, and unfulfilled promises to yourself. One of […]

dot-font: The Other Zapf

Under the Desktop: Take Charge of Your Web Site

Comedians of the 1940s, when faced with a test of courage, would often ask the existential question: Am I a man, or a mouse? The answer was usually the latter. Following last month’s column on the perils of Web hosting, a number of readers shared their own sob stories and posed some additional questions. At […]

Out of Gamut: Setting Up Color Management in Photoshop 6

As somebody who spends much of his time writing about, thinking about, or practicing color management, I often hear one question: “How can I make my prints match what I see on my monitor?” The short answer, though it’s the one that those in the business of selling color-management tools never seem to give, is […]