July, 2004 | CreativePro Network

Photoshop How-To: Making a DVD Menu

With DVD recorders becoming faster and more affordable, more creative professionals are using DVD technology to create interactive portfolios for work and personal videos for home. Along with many other companies, Adobe recognized this trend and created Encore DVD, a Windows design and production environment for DVDs. But where Adobe’s efforts differ from competitive products […]

Talk Back to Quark: The Scoop on Mobile Licensing

In my article on the Quark Summit in Breckenridge, I reported that Quark announced it was changing its mobile licensing policy to allow customers to install QuarkXPress on two machines — due in no small part to the emails you sent into this site decrying the old policy of charging for the privilege. Within milliseconds […]

The Art of Business: Banking on Accounts Receivable

About the only thing worse than having to nag a client for payment is not getting paid at all. But if you don’t collect what’s owed to you sooner when than later, your chances of ever seeing payment diminish with every passing day; after three months, the probability of collecting a delinquent account drops to […]

Creative Fuel: Pentagram's Kit Hinrichs Talks about Good Design

In last month’s column I told you about the design awards pilot program that was part of this year’s North American Sappi Printer of the Year awards. Now let’s talk to some of the people behind the scenes of the awards. My search lead me to the renowned international design firm Pentagram and to Kit […]

Plug-Ins and XTensions: InDesign Oversets, XPress Spreads, Photoshop Brushes, Color Adjusters

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 Math Expressions in InDesign i.t.i.p.’s InMath 1.3 ($249–$595) is a plug-in for InDesign or InCopy that creates mathematical expressions using your input and InDesign’s Styles palette. You […]

Framed and Exposed: Making Sense of Camera Sensors

Good film photographers often have a very thorough understanding of the nature and properties of particular film chemistries — often going so far as to make their own paper and emulsions. Though digital photographers can’t sit around forging their own image sensors, they can still benefit from understanding some of the rudiments of the image […]

dot-font: Burning Down the House

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 […]

Heavy Metal Madness: Sheena is a Punk Printer

The humiliation and embarrassment of having yet to actually print anything in my home letterpress shop culminated in my nephew’s plea to “get rid of that stupid printing stuff” in order to make room for a pool table. Teenagers have a way of cutting to the chase and stating the obvious, and Marc was right, […]