November, 2003 | CreativePro Network

Heavy Metal Madness: You Are What You Eat

After a disastrous experience last year with a Tofurky (yes, it’s a fake turkey made out of tofu), my wife and I decided this year to go the traditional Thanksgiving route. So out came the cookbook collection along with other food-related ephemera, and thus begins another look at graphics from the past. Be sure to […]

Photoshop How-to: Retouching with the Patch and Healing Brush Tools

This story is taken from “Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Studio Techniques.” When Adobe Photoshop 7.0 came out, many people jokingly referred to two of its new features as capable of virtual plastic surgery. The Healing Brush tool is so adept at erasing wrinkles that you’d swear its icon in Photoshop’s toolbar should really be a Botox […]

SmartDisk FlashTrax: Powerful, Portable Storage for Digital Cameras

According to a recent study by UC Berkeley researchers, 800 MB of information is produced for every person on the planet every year. If you’ve got a digital camera, or other data- mongering device, then you might be generating a lot of that 800 MB of data on your own. Though removable media like CompactFlash […]

The Art of Business: The Wrap on Client Gifts

Mark Twain, paraphrased, once said, “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” The same can be said for the holiday gift. But, as you’re probably aware, giving gifts to business associates has become trickier recently due to numerous cultural, gender, religious, […]

Web How-to: Using CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004

I have watched Web designers adopt Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) with interest. While some designers have gleefully adopted CSS as a must-have technology, plenty of developers resist adopting CSS. Yet, I think anyone who finally adjusts wonders why they waited so long. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 makes adjusting to CSS even easier. The new Dreamweaver […]

Under the Desktop: Should Creative Pros Run with Panther?

After running Mac OS X 10.3, or Panther, for a couple of weeks, my first impressions are confirmed: The upgrade is a solid piece of work (and no matter the two maintenance updates in the span of a week or so). However, even with that upbeat experience, still I wonder whether Panther’s mix of 150 […]

Painter How-to: Coloring Woodcuts

This story is taken from “The Painter 8 WOW! Book.” Peachpit Press is offering this book to creativepro.com readers at a special discount. Click here to learn more. Among the many artistic effects in Painter’s bag of tricks is the ability to add subtle coloration to ordinary drawings. One way to do so is shown […]

PitStop Professional 6: Preflighting with Panache

Anyone whose livelihood revolves around PDF needs to have Enfocus’s PitStop — a phenomenal Acrobat plug-in indispensable for inspecting, editing, polishing, and preflighting documents. The newest release of PitStop Professional (version 6) plugs neatly into Acrobat 6, and as a result adds support for Mac OS X, Adobe PDF 1.5, layers, and JPEG 2000. But […]