March, 2004 | CreativePro Network

Creative Fuel: The Webbys Win Over ‘Net Designers

Every year, after the groundhog gives us his opinion of the season to come, it’s time for awards and awards shows. Maybe it’s a sign of 21st century living, but for me the Academy Awards are more a sign that spring is near than the crocuses in the front yard. This year, as I watched […]

Photoshop How-To: Super-Smooth Skin

Here’s a technique for producing that absolutely, perfectly, flawlessly smooth skin. It’s not appropriate for all images, but when you need perfect skin, give this trick a try. Photoshop’s Healing Brush copies texture. When we want perfect skin, we want smooth skin. What better tool to produce perfectly smooth skin than the Healing Brush? We […]

dot-font: Type for All Cycles

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 […]

Paper Tips: Printing on Uncoated Stock

This story courtesy of PaperSpecs.com. It is essential to keep in mind the physical characteristics of uncoated papers when planning your printing job. Uncoated papers are absorbent, so inks, varnishes and coatings perform differently than on coated papers. New technology in the pressroom and pre-press area has enabled designers to use premium uncoated papers in […]

Heavy Metal Madness: An Era Thrown Into the Dumpster

Editor’s note: Gene Gable served as President of Seybold Publishing and Events for four years, during which he formed strong personal opinions about the role of the Seybold brand in the rapidly changing world of publishing and communications. In the interest of full discloure, creative pro.com is a media and content-development partner with Seybold and […]

Industry Analysis: Even If You’re Not in the Obituary Pages, You Could Still Be Dead

Have you ever heard an older person say, “I read the obits every day and if I don’t see my name I know it’s a good day!”? Yup, that’s a real knee slapper around the Old Printers’ Home. However, there are plenty of printers out there still who died a few years ago and yet […]

Photoshop How-To: Creating Color-Consistent Panoramas with Russell Brown

This story is taken from “The Photoshop Show Starring Russell Brown.” Panoramic photos are all the rage these days. Although some cameras can capture wide scenes in a single take, many cameras require you to create panoramas by taking multiple shots in sequence and then pasting the individual frames together in your imaging application. Photoshop […]

The Art of Business: Employee or Independent Contractor?

Yes, jobs are being shipped overseas, but more importantly they are being impacted here at home. You know the scenario: you’re hired as a contractor but asked to work as an employee without benefits or employee rights. It’s happening more and more in the graphic arts world, both within graphic arts firms and with clients […]

InDesign How-To: Adding Custom Sizes to the Page Menu

Every designer has the need to create a custom page size every once in a while. But if you regularly need custom page sizes, it can be a pain to redefine the specs. InDesign has a nice feature that lets you add custom page sizes to the Page Size pop-up menu. That means what was […]