September, 2003 | CreativePro Network

The Digital Dish: Going Bi-Platform

With this column I am “coming out of the closet.” (No, it has nothing to do with sexuality, despite the recent popularity of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Boy Meets Boy.”) Rather my coming-out party is the official recognition of my new Gateway 200 XL laptop machine that sits next to my Apple […]

The Art of Business: Thriving in the Corporate Suite

Corporate employees aren’t like you and me. They work under a different set of priorities and demands. So marketing, prospecting, and handshaking with corporate employees is fine, but you may be spinning your wheels if you don’t understand the crazy pressures, unwritten rules, and unspoken insanity that drive the corporate world. Here are a few […]

InDesign Tips: Making the Most of Rulers and Guides

Rulers and guides are essential for positioning objects with precision in your page-layout program. Anyone who uses QuarkXPress, PageMaker or InDesign is familiar with basic ruler operations like changing units of measurement, resetting the zero point, or dragging guides onto pages. But there’s more to rulers and guides than picas and inches. Adobe InDesign offers […]

Under the Desktop: When Your Killer App Quits

My e-mail went out of whack recently but not all the way out. I could receive mail but not send. And of course, it was late at night and I was on a deadline. All in all, a very frustrating situation, one that I bet has happened to you. E-mail has been described as the […]

America 24/7: Shoot-to-Plate in Real Time

For more information about The Seybold Report click here. Rick Smolan is justly famed for his ambitious use of leading-edge technologies in the service of top-notch coffee-table books. His latest adventure was a stress-test of photojournalism workflows, custom book production, and the coordination of thousands of pro and amateur photographers. As I sat down today […]

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Improvising with Layers

If you have a badly exposed photograph lying around — and who doesn’t? — then this project is for you. It doesn’t require any drawing talent, just a sense of adventure. Don’t don’t expect to learn about color correcting here. This Photoshop project challenges you to open yourself up to experimentation and improvisation. You are […]

dot-font: A Few Preconceived Notions about 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 […]

Photoshop Tips: Mastering Photoshop’s Interface

This story is taken from “Secrets of the Photoshop Masters” (Avondale Media). Creativepro.com readers can purchase this DVD at a discount. Click here to learn more. Tools, and palettes, and windows — oh my! If navigating your Photoshop workspace at times seems like pushing through a thick forest crowded with potential perils, then you may […]

Heavy Metal Madness: In Search of Imperfection

A number of designers have contacted me wondering how to achieve the “retro” colors and look of letterpress and other vintage printing methods using modern desktop tools. While theoretically in a program like Photoshop you ought to be able to reproduce all possible colors and effects, the answer is pretty much “you can’t.” A good […]