January, 2002 | CreativePro Network

The Creative Toolbox: A Designer’s Reflections on the iMac and Mac OS X

Whenever I attend Macworld Expo keynotes, I do my best not to get swept up in the excitement and fervor swimming around the convention hall. It helps to keep my impression of the announcements objective and see them in their true light. But this isn’t always easy when you have Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, presenting […]

Out of Gamut: Canned Profiles, Custom Profiles, and Pretend Profiles

Color management lives and dies by the accuracy of the profiles you use. The generic profiles that scanner, printer, and monitor vendors supply vary quite a bit in their accuracy. Some devices display more unit-to-unit variation than others, and some inks and papers vary more from batch to batch than others. In the case of […]

Out of Gamut: Photoshop, Previsualization, and Print Prediction

In my last column, I addressed the question, “How can I get Photoshop to make my prints match what I see on my monitor?” — and broke the sad news that neither you, I, nor anyone else can actually do that. Monitors can display colors that are either not reproducible in print, or are only […]

Wacom Cintiq: Drawing on Graphic Experience

Wacom Technology has been producing graphics tablets for more than 10 years, and during that time its products have come to dominate the market for artists who just couldn’t get the hang of drawing with a mouse. The feel of pen-on-tablet is much more natural than the utilitarian and distinctly foreign sensation of mouse-on-desktop. With […]

The Art of Business: Staffing Strategies for Troubled Times

If you employ one or more people, these are difficult times, not only because a slowdown means less revenue, but because you may have to flirt with the idea of laying off a talented employee or two — people who have become very good friends, perhaps. But slow times can also be an opportune time […]

dot-font: A New Typographic Glasnost

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 […]

Hands on with Canvas 8

I’m been a big fan of Canvas since the time I had only a half day to cull through 300 digital photos and produce a brochure for my church. I used Deneba’s “one-stop” software package for illustration, bitmap editing and document design for the project and have been an avid supporter of Canvas ever since. […]

Under the Desktop: Platform Pros and Cons, Round 2

Speed is critical, especially for content creators. But is it everything ? The assumption is that performance is the biggest determining factor when purchasing a computer. But when deciding in which platform to invest are there other things to keep in mind? The quick answer is yes, as I broached in my previous column about […]

Web Publishing Secrets:SSIs

The Basics The idea behind Server Side Includes (SSIs) is simple: each include (short for “included item”) is a separate file that another HTML file or template calls (or references) by file name. Every time the HTML code calls the included item, the server storing the Web pages inserts the include into the referencing file. […]