September, 2002 | CreativePro Network

QuarkXPress How-To: Transform Text into Art

This story is taken from “Inside QuarkX-Press” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Previously, many of us have shied away from trying to be crafty with text in QuarkXPress, but maybe it’s time to break out of that mindset. With QuarkXPress’ improved […]

Photoshop Tips: Make Text on the Web Look Sharper

There are a few little tricks you can do in Adobe Photoshop to make your text look a bit sharper on your Web pages, especially at smaller sizes. Resizing When resampling blocks of text, there is an option you may not have noticed that will help you achieve sharper results. This is particularly useful when […]

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Art from the Ashes

Welcome to Creative Thinking — the new creativepro.com column dedicated to the nonlinear way digital artists really work. As author of “The Illustrator Wow! Books” I appreciate the value of following exacting software recipes to replicate specific effects, but as an artist I’m also keenly aware that we rarely create by simply following a linear […]

dot-font: Faux Pas, or Things Not to Do When Using Type

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 […]

GoLive How-To: Managing Web Workflow and Tracking File Revisions

Adobe GoLive 6 includes a very nifty feature called the Web Workgroup Server. With this handy little module you can check files in to and out of a Web project, track revisions, and prevent other users from tampering with files. And you can access the server via such applications as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver […]

Under the Desktop: Running with the Big Cat, Apple’s Jaguar OS X

Along with many other Mac users (reportedly more than 100K strong), I spent much of last month, counting the hours before the release of Mac OS X 10.2, a.k.a. Jaguar. Despite the hype surrounding the update — mostly over its many new consumer applications designated as a part of the company’s “digital lifestyle” — Apple […]

Plug-Ins and XTensions: The Spices of Software

Each month Design Tools Monthly will review some of the best plug-ins and XTensions on the market. To kick things off, Jay Nelson, editor of Design Tools Monthly, provides an overview, followed by this month’s reviewed products. Most of the mentioned products can be purchased through The PowerXChange. Do you cook? Do you use herbs […]

Great Sites: What Makes Sun’s Site Shine Brightly

What makes a Web site successful is the melding of information and presentation. In this occasional series, “Great Sites,” Clay Andres investigates the design side of things — architecture, graphics, color, and flow. This week’s Web site: Sun Microsystems. As you might expect, Sun Microsystems, the self-proclaimed “leading provider of equipment and services that make […]