July, 2002 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Not Your Father’s Sans Serif

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 […]

Photoshop How-To: Making High-Tech Effects

This story is taken from “Inside Photoshop” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. In the last few years, a technical look to graphics has developed that has really dominated Web sites and many technology startup companies. Then the style spilled out to […]

For Position Only: The Potential of Personalized Printing

“Personalized Print Markup Language”, or PPML: If you’re like me, the thought of one more “ML” acronym might be enough to send you running for a hill so high and so remote that publishing technology will never find you. PPML is becoming an accepted standard that allows variable-data digital short-run printing-another technology that may also […]

Flash MX How-To: Testing the Size of your Flash Files

This story excerpted from Digital Media Training’s “Inside Flash MX: Production Essentials“. The biggest challenge for all of us who create in Flash has been and always will be the process of optimizing our files for use on the Web. There are two, somewhat hidden aspects to Flash that help us to quickly determine where […]

The Art of Business: Learn to Love Negotiating

Like a first date, negotiating is thrilling and frightening all at once. But if you have confidence in yourself, prepare well, and know what you want, things will turn out great. Here are a few tips: Research, research, research. Information is power. Collect as much information as you can before you start any negotiation. Your […]

PageMaker How-To: Merging Data Records into Layouts

Delivering customized content is all the rage, but producing it can put you in a rage. You don’t have to spend all your time cutting and pasting names into fields nor do you have to spend a lot of money on a high-end database-publishing solution when you can accomplish the objective in PageMaker 7. This […]

Under the Desktop: Another Look at Mobile Creativity

Should creative pros consider a notebook as their primary machine for content creation and image evaluation? That was the question posed in my previous column. And from your feedback, the answer is — cue the drum roll — a qualified maybe. In my book, notebook computers are designed first and foremost for mobility, while desktop […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Modifying Tables

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: One-Celled Tables Have you ever wanted to draw a text box with different line thicknesses on each side? Or a box that only has a border on three sides? Try this […]

Plasma Gives Web Graphics 3D Transfusion

Web producers working in Macromedia’s Flash and Shockwave have had to work through some limitations. Although Flash and Shockwave are widely accepted as file formats for highly interactive and animation-intensive Web site graphics, creating compelling 3D content to work with those formats has, until now, required a cobbled-together collection of unrelated design tools. To fill […]