January, 2004 | CreativePro Network

Design How-To: Making Complex Patterns with Simple Lines

This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to “Before & After” at a discount. Click here to learn more. Patterns add bite to an illustration or layout, but scanned images and other pixel-based backgrounds can add lots of bytes to your project as well. Vector textures are more efficient […]

Heavy Metal Madness: Macintosh, Mackintosh, or McIntosh?

1984 tv commercial for the Macintosh computer by Apple

A look at all things Macintosh, from computers to coats, tartans to typefaces, amplifiers and architects, as well as apples.

Acrobat How-To: Working with Layered PDFs

This story is taken from “Acrobat 6 PDF Bible.” To buy this book click here. PDF files are great, but they are so one-dimensional. Acrobat lets you produce nice flat compact files that contain all the design integrity of your original document, but once you’ve created the PDF, there’s only so much you can do […]

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: More Improvising with Layers

The “Creative Thinking” approach to working in Adobe Photoshop encourages you to start a new layer whenever you get to a stage that you like. Collecting zillions of layers is wonderful for your creative workflow, but some things, like filters, can only be applied to one layer at a time. This project will start with […]

The Art of Business: Consumer Electronics Steal the Show

Can you say “CE”? Comdex used to be the biggest trade show in America, but these days the heavyweight is the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which closed its doors in Las Vegas earlier this month after a record run: 129,328 attendees and 2,491 vendors in 1.38 million square feet of exhibit space. If any […]

QuarkXPress How-To: Creating PDF Files

This story is taken from “Real World QuarkXPress 6.” Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount. Click here to learn more. That PDF is an important format for print production is now an accepted fact. But until recently, QuarkXPress — the dominant page-layout application — had no built-in support for PDF. You had […]

Industry Analysis: The Quiet Revolution in Proprietary File Formats

From The Pfeiffer Report. To learn more about The Pfeiffer Report, click here. One of the most important contributing factors for the success of desktop publishing was the arrival of standard file formats. Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and Tagged Image file format (TIFF) were revolutionary efforts to do away with the limitations and complexities of proprietary […]

Digital Video How-To: Add Special Effects in Final Cut Express

This story is taken from “50 Fast Final Cut Express Techniques.” To buy this book click here. If you think digital video is too hard to learn, think again. Apple’s Final Cut Express is designed to ease your entry into the world of digital-video editing. Similar to its big brother Final Cut Pro but at […]

Canon EOS Digital Rebel: Pro Photo Features at Consumer Price

In the realm of digital cameras, there’s a very simple dividing line between “consumer” and “professional” models: the SLR. Single-Lens Reflex cameras with removable lenses fall heartily on the “professional” side of the digital camera market, thanks to their flexibility, thorough feature sets, and superior image quality. Canon has been steadily moving that dividing line […]