June, 2002 | CreativePro Network

For Position Only: Digital Printing’s Unfulfilled Promise

Help me out here: Something doesn’t add up. According to recent research by WhatTheyThink.com and CAP Ventures, digital color printing is going to eat away at the offset print market in the next few years. Among the 206 print providers surveyed by CAP, 6.2 percent currently make money from digital color printing, but the percentage […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Working with Layers

Excerpted from “Real World QuarkXPress 5” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. The Default Layer and Master Pages Before I get into the details of creating and manipulating layers, I need to mention two kinds of layers that appear in every document you create. […]

The Creative Toolbox: For Flash, MX Means Most eXcellent

I can’t quite remember exactly when I heard about Macromedia Flash and started to tinker around with it. It was somewhere around the time of Flash 2 and 3. What I do remember is revisiting the documentation and tutorials several times as I struggled to grasp the concepts and learn the proper steps to accomplish […]

Hands On With Adobe InDesign 2.0

I remember vividly the first time I encountered Quark XPress. While attending School of Visual Arts in New York, I found a job listing for a catalog design firm with part time hours. I needed to make money since it turned out that pens, paper, oil paints and piles of new computer equipment were more […]

Hands On With the 10GB iPod

When Apple updated its iPod digital device on March 20, the company doubled the storage capacity to 10GB. In keeping with Apple’s marketing department, you can now store 2,000 songs on your iPod, up from the 1,000 on the original 5GB model. I was very pleased to see the capacity of the iPod hard drive […]

dot-font: The “X” Appeal of James Montalbano

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 […]

The Creative Type: Making Headline Graphics in InDesign

This story is taken from “Inside Adobe InDesign” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Laying out a feature article gives you the opportunity to really get creative with the headline. Rather than just formatting it with an ordinary typeface and sticking it […]

Under the Desktop: Spring (or Summertime) Cleaning Blues

Where computers are concerned, digital content creators are by nature obsessed with performance and reliability. Yet with all that effort spent on speed and creativity, many folks seem to have no time left for small but important tasks, like spring cleaning. By any measure, I’m no neat freak. But during several site visits recently, I […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Boxes and Backgrounds

Excerpted from “Real World QuarkXPress 5” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Tip: Opaque Versus Transparent Backgrounds In the good old days, QuarkXPress always made text and picture boxes opaque when you selected them with the Content tool. For some, this was always annoying […]