March, 2005 | CreativePro Network

Electric Rain Launches SWIFT 3D Max and Swift 3D LW 3.0

Today Electric Rain, Inc.® announced the release of Swift 3D® MAX and Swift 3D LW 3.0, the next generation plug-ins allowing Discreet® 3ds max®, Autodesk® Viz® and Newtek LightWave 3D® users to render 3D scenes to the SWF file format, as well as AI, EPS, SVG and Toon Boom’s PNT format. “Swift 3D MAX […]

Curious Labs Announces Expected Release Date for Poser 6

Curious Labs, producer of the powerful 3D visualization and figure design product, Poser, announced that the much anticipated Poser 6 for Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS X has the expected release date of March 21, 2005. Poser 6 includes several powerful new features: NEW! A MORE EFFICIENT AND FEATURE RICH USER INTERFACE ~ offers a […]

Adobe Digital Negative Specification Gains Momentum with Hasselblad and Leica Support

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that Hasselblad and Leica Camera AG are among the first camera manufacturers to commit to support the Digital Negative Specification (DNG). Hasselblad will work to allow export to the Digital Negative (.DNG) file format and Leica plans to include native support within their new camera models. Just a few […]

Framed and Exposed: Taking Action

Over the next few months, this column will dive into Photoshop automation. The last couple of versions of Photoshop have introduced a deep level of scriptable control that lets you drive Photoshop from external scripts. Not only can you automate your workflow within Photoshop, you can also easily automate interaction between Photoshop and other Adobe […]

TWGA and A.F. Lewis Monthly Newsletter Takes a Comprehensive Look at the Graphic Communications Industry

TrendWatch Graphic Arts and A.F. Lewis Information Services announce the release of the latest issue of “Graphic Directions,” featuring a comprehensive look at the inroads that digital, on-demand printing has made into the book printing and publishing industry. The latest issue (issue #15, February 2005) looks at book printing and publishing. How is the book […]

'Moroccan Blue' Leads Top Fashion Colors for Fall 2005

Moroccan Blue topped the list of colors at New York Fashion Week’s Fall 2005 collections, according to Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries. Each season, Pantone surveys designers showing at New York Fashion Week and collects feedback on prominent collection colors, color inspiration, color […]

The Creative Suite Conference Launches in Las Vegas, July 20-22nd

The Creative Suite Conference will be the first conference dedicated for Adobe Creative Suite users, focusing on active learning and presentations by technical experts. Organized by Barrycon Productions, the company that produces The InDesign Conference series worldwide, the Creative Suite Conference will take place July 20-22nd at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. The Adobe Creative […]

Web's Biggest Search Engine Takes Pictures of 40 Million Websites

The Web’s Biggest (www.websbiggest.com) search engine now enhances their search results with pictures of more than 40 million websites. The pictures appear whenever users pass their mouse over an icon beside a website’s URL, letting users quickly and easily preview each site. According to a study by VeriTest, website thumbnails reduce the number of clicks […]

Google Helps Emerging Artists Go Global

A new paradigm now exists in the world of art, and the art world will never be the same. Artists are taking their work directly to collectors via the web with the help of companies like Google, moving beyond the traditional gallery relationships that have defined the art market for decades. San Francisco artist John […]