July, 2002 | CreativePro Network

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Playing with Color

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: Drag-and-Drop Color Application Sometimes I think the folks at Quark like to toss in features just because they’re cool-for example, drag-and-drop color application. Try it: hold your mouse down on one […]

Hands On with Freeway 3.5

I like simplicity. That’s why I love the new iMac and Apple’s line of digital hub applications. That’s also the reason I like Freeway 3.5, the Web authoring tool from SoftPress Systems. That and the fact that Freeway is Mac-only and once supported Apple’s late, lamented (to me anyway) QuickDraw GX technology. Consider me creative […]

The Creative Toolbox: Share and Share Alike with Illustrator and Photoshop

With Illustrator 9, Adobe introduced some remarkable capabilities for exporting vector files to Photoshop — and brought even more to the table with Illustrator 10. The onslaught of new features in the last two releases of both Illustrator and Photoshop may have obscured these new exporting options so that they snuck right by you. But […]

The Art of Business: Why ‘Goodbye’ Doesn’t Have to Mean Forever

Business relationships have three possible endings and two of them aren’t good. The best ending comes after the completion of a successful project with everyone happy. May all your relationships end this way, or better yet, may you keep the client until your retirement. But sometimes endings simply fizzle out. It’s hard to figure out […]

InDesign How-To: Designing Distinctive Tables

The ability to create tables has been a highy touted feature of both InDesign 2.0 and QuarkXpress 5.0. But tables themselves are rather hum-drum: Make some rows and columns, maybe throw in a tint, import the data, and you’re done, right? Wrong. Learn how to add graphic panache to tables in InDesign 2.0 in this […]

Under the Desktop: Master of your Domain

Content creators are often the mainstay of the brand development process, establishing the details of a print identity or evolving the design and graphics for a corporate site. Yet, very often creators neglect the basics of their own Internet brand strategy, forgetting that like charity, branding should start at home. While some content creators have […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Text Flow and Styles

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: Comparing Two Styles I hate it when I have two styles that are very similar but I can’t remember how they’re different. Fortunately, QuarkXPress lets you compare two style sheets. Select […]

Out of Gamut: Don’t Underestimate Photoshop’s Auto Color

In amongst all the other goodies in Adobe Photoshop 7, you may have missed Auto Color entirely. Or, you may have chosen it from the Image > Adjustments menu, found that it gave you a fairly unattractive, cold, contrasty image and decided it was as useful as all the other auto-adjustments — which is to […]

A Look Inside Adobe Premiere 6.5

Adobe Systems Inc. took the wraps off of Premiere 6.5, the latest iteration of the company’s popular and long-running digital video editing application. The newest version of Premiere is Mac OS X compatible and sports myriad new features and enhancements. Recently MacCentral spoke with Adobe Premiere product manager Bruce Bowman to find out what’s new […]