March, 2004 | CreativePro Network

Under the Desktop: Considering New Phone Services

When it comes to today’s digitally-connected world, professional content creators often call upon many forms of communication. While most content creators rely on e-mail messages to share images with clients and relay day-to-day changes in a job or workflow, almost all of us use our ordinary telephones for important communication. However, some recent changes in […]

Plug-Ins and XTensions: InDesign Style Makers, QuarkXPress Bitmap Exporters, and Layout Croppers

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. InDesign Easier Catalogs in InDesign WoodWing’s Smart Catalog CS (999 euros, or $1,237) lets you create two-way links between a database and text in an InDesign CS layout, […]

Creative Thinking in Photoshop: Using Layer Comps to Create Variations

Layer Comps — new in Adobe Photoshop CS — may well be one of the first great inventions of the 21st century (at least in the digital world). A simple click in the palette to Save New Layer Comp, lets you name and save your current view of layer visibility and editing state as a […]

dot-font: Letterpress in the Digital Age

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 […]