Each month Design Tools Monthly reviews some of the best plug-ins and XTensions on the market. Most of the mentioned products can be purchased through The PowerXChange. Illustrator Advanced Path-Editing in Illustrator CValley’s Xtream Path 1.1 ($139) is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator CS that adds several features: You can click anywhere on a path […]
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Adobe InDesign has developed into a very capable, versatile print-publishing application of its own right. However, InDesign’s publishing feats do not stop at print. Adobe made certain that InDesign CS would meet most cross-media publishing needs as well, such as Acrobat PDFs, eBooks, and the Web. Earlier versions of InDesign included an export command to […]
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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 […]
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This story is taken from “Before & After” Magazine. Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to “Before & After” at a discount. Click here to learn more. When shooting a natural scene that will be used in a travel brochure or magazine layout, you don’t have that much control over the colors that appear in the photograph. […]
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After a year of blissfully few business trips, I’ve suddenly found myself in the travel mode, and have been schlepping across country nearly every week for the past few weeks. And since I’m paying for more and more of my own trips these days, I don’t have the luxury of using carriers with which I […]
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This story is taken from “50 Fast Photoshop 7 Techniques.” To buy this book click here. Long before Photoshop, photographers have played with techniques for adding special effects to their images, whether it be picking up a brush and hand-painting a black-and-white print or applying a texture screen when exposing a negative in the darkroom. […]
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For more information about The Seybold Report, click here. Perhaps the hardest software challenge in the graphic arts today is to invent a workflow-support tool for creative professionals. The obstacles are many: Creative people are notoriously individualistic and resistant any prescriptive approach to managing their daily tasks. The majority of artists and designers work solo […]
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It’s hard to quantify the effectiveness of a few handshakes and phone calls. As a result, marketing has always been regarded as a fuzzy art. But fuzzy as it may be, marketing is also expense, both in terms of time and money, and the consequences of failure can be disastrous. So the more precisely you […]
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This story is taken from “The QuarkXPress 6 Bible.” To buy this book click here. The ability to work with layered files was an important addition to QuarkXPress 5, and with version 6, Quark added some small but significant improvements to this valuable feature. In fact, some publishing pundits assert that the layer functionality of […]
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