July, 2002 | CreativePro Network

dot-font: Avant-Garde Page Design

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: Quick-and-Easy Collages

This story is taken from “The Design Authority” (Element K Journals). I’ve been using Photoshop for a while now, but I haven’t found a good technique to use when creating collages. Do you know of a special formula for putting collages together? One of the most powerful features in Photoshop is the ability to create […]

Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Working with 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. Convert Text to Table QuarkXPress lets you turn any selected block of text into a table by choosing Convert Text to Table from the Item menu. This gives you the Convert Text […]

Photoshop: What Color Depth to Use for the Web?

I have always struggled with what color palette to use when working for the Web. Should I use the 216-color Web-safe palette? Or should I just use the colors that I want, and people can deal with it? A few years ago, using color on the Web was a real issue. Because of the differences […]

OS X Goes Hollywood

Even before rolling out Mac OS X, Apple spent considerable time and energy trumpeting the benefits of its new operating system. And while concepts like multithreading, protected memory, and Unix underpinnings sound promising to most Mac users, explaining the real-world benefit of those features can be difficult-unless you happen to work with digital video. To […]

The Art of Business: Is It Time To Kill The Kill Fee?

A while back, at the very end of the dot-com blaze out, I was caught in a precarious situation. I had been hired to structure a Web site, work with a designer on site design, and write all the copy for what was to be a fairly deep site. A few weeks into the project, […]