May, 2002 | CreativePro Network

Surrealistic Illo: Adding Infrared Imaging Effects

This story is taken from “Digital Photo Pro” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Very often infrared images can make the ordinary look mysterious and interesting. In Figure A, you can see an image of a park shot in infrared. In regular […]

The Creative Toolbox: Is LiveMotion 2.0 a Flash in the Pan?

LiveMotion 2.0 has been a long time in coming. It’s been nearly two years since Adobe introduced version 1.0 as a Web-animation application to compete with Macromedia Flash. Was it worth the wait? LiveMotion’s new features are impressive, to be sure, but the long gap between versions only means that Flash has had plenty of […]

dot-font: Emigre Migrates to a New Format

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 […]

Flash Physics: Velocity and Acceleration

Excerpted from “Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Flash, by definition, brings 2D drawing to life. But it lets you do even more: To give your Flash animations a sense of realistic movement, you can apply the laws of physics […]

Under the Desktop: Impure Thoughts about Color

I wager that many of us gaze all day long at our monitors, working on images. A side bet — and one no doubt that I’d win — would be that for all the time spent tweaking the image’s colors, few of us spend even a moment to improve the colors available from that display. […]

Thinking Outside the (Picture) Box in QuarkXPress

This story is taken from “Inside QuarkXPress” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Although it’s true that graphics are contained within picture boxes in QuarkXPress, you have the ability to release them. All graphics can be liberated from their confines with the […]

The Creative Toolbox: Upgrade to Photoshop 7.0?

Whenever a new version of Photoshop comes around, I look forward to exploring and uncovering the newly added features and to figuring out how I can exploit them in my day-to-day work. Unfortunately, with the release of Photoshop 7, there’s not a lot to write home about. Although there are some noteworthy features that will […]

The Art of Business: Battling the Deadline Demons

Sometimes columns mirror real life. Take this column for example. It’s a gorgeous Northern California day and my mind is drifting like a dinghy on the Bay. But I’m inside my office watching the clock tick away, hoping to pull together this article before my deadline arrives. If you’re like me, deadlines drive you crazy, […]

For Position Only: Publishing’s New Starship Enterprise

It’s subtle, so if you haven’t been looking for it you might not have noticed. But the word keeps popping up: on the company’s Web site, in its press and marketing materials, and this week, the word was all over the company’s intra-quarter update to Wall Street analysts. The company is Adobe. The word is […]