January, 2002 | CreativePro Network

For Position Only: Switch to InDesign or Stick with QuarkXPress?

The time has come. We’ve all seen it coming, we’ve all been waiting. Now we all have to make the choice: What’ll it be, folks? InDesign 2.0 or QuarkXPress 5.0? Me, I’m choosing InDesign 2.0. I learned desktop publishing in PageMaker, but no sooner did I get up to speed than the particular magazine where […]

Extracting Hair in Photoshop with Russell Brown

Through a special arrangement with Adobe, creativepro.com is posting nifty Photoshop tips and techniques by Russell Brown, Adobe’s digital imaging guru and Photoshop maestro. As one of the original contributors to Photoshop, Russell knows the program inside and out. Don’t know who Russell is? Find out! Anyone who’s ever done masking in Photoshop knows how […]

InDesign 2.0: Where Creativity and Productivity Meet

I had expected a brass band to come marching down the middle of New York City with banners waving: InDesign 2.0 Ships! Instead, on Sunday, January 20, 2002, a friend sent a message to the Blueworld InDesign listgroup: A press release, dated the following day, had been spotted on the Adobe Web site that said […]

The Art of Business: Don’t Let Words Fail

As a result of their training, designers tend to be more visual than verbal. So while it’s doubtful a large company would ask you as designer to handle a copy-writing assignment, it’s entirely possible that, in this age of budget cuts, a smaller client might ask you to “write up something” for a display ad, […]

Photoshop’s Shear Mastery

Photoshop 6 gives you an easy way to warp, wrap, and bend text using the aptly named Warp Text feature. But you’re not limited to bending text in Photoshop. Anything can be warped if you know which tool to use. A recent question from Michael Standlee (of Michael Standlee Design) inspired me to experiment more […]

Under the Desktop: The Great Platform Debate Continues

Mac vs. Windows. You gotta love it. The inveterate story always provides a dash of religion, market forces, and Lucha Libre. Given the potential for a no-holds-barred flame war, my recent two-part series on the relative merits of Macs and PCs for content creation drew a lively, well-thought-out response from the creativepro readership. While likely […]

QuarkXPress How-To: Importing Spot Colors with Adobe Photoshop Images

When you import EPS vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator into QuarkXPress, any spot colors used to colorize the art are automatically imported into the document’s Colors palette. It’s not quite as easy to import spot colors from link Photoshop into QuarkXPress, but it can be done. Using the Photoshop image shown in Figure 1 as […]

Creative Analysis: “This Just In: QuarkXPress 5 Is Now Shipping”

No sooner had I finished writing my commentary for this week’s creativeprose newsletter about Adobe InDesign 2.0 shipping than I got an email saying: “Call me.” It was my contact at Quark. I fully expected him to chide me for some smart-aleck thing I’d said about QuarkXPress, such as the headline I’d written for a […]

Deneba Canvas 8: Master of Some

Deneba Software’s Canvas has been around almost 15 years. Although it’s usually overshadowed by products from larger companies Adobe, Corel, and Macromedia, Canvas was the first graphics application to integrate vector-graphics creation and bitmap editing within a single application. Designed for, and used primarily by technical illustrators, Canvas 8 has a little something for everybody: […]