Quark to Open Silicon Valley Office

Quark Inc. announced today that the company is expanding its operations with a new Silicon Valley office. Opening in the third quarter of 2007 in Santa Clara, California, the center will be home to an expanding team of sales, customer support personnel and product developers. By establishing a presence in Santa Clara, Quark aims to […]

Peachpit Releases "Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3"

Today, Peachpit announced Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3 by Mordy Golding (ISBN 0-321-49621-3; https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321496213/creativeprocom/), a thoroughly updated edition of the definitive reference to Adobe’s industry-standard vector graphics software. New features of Adobe Illustrator CS3, such as Live Color, additional drawing tools, Adobe Flash integration, and much more, give designers even more options for producing creative […]

PROOF-it-ONLINE Enhances Reviewer Interface for Online Proofing and Approval Management Solutions

PROOF-it-ONLINE, provider of interactive content approval solutions for creative and media services companies, today announced the release of an enhanced browser-based reviewer application as part of the company’s online proofing application. PROOF-it-ONLINE’s Reviewer Interface adds features and new upgrades to create an enhanced, more intuitive online proof review experience that is easy for first-time users […]

Photoshop Science: The Clone Source Panel

This tutorial is an installment of The Russell Brown Show. With the help of the crazy Dr. Brown (also known as Russell Brown, senior creative director at Adobe), you’ll see how Photoshop CS3’s new Clone Source panel works with the Clone Stamp tool to create amazing effects. Using the five unique settings of the Clone […]

Disappearing Paragraph Rules: A Mystery

Sometimes we learn things when something goes wrong. I had two fascinating InDesign discoveries today while trying to fix other people’s files. I’ll write one up now and one up as soon as I get a chance.

Someone was trying to figure out what was going wrong with a page element — in this case, an object that was created using Rule Above. I love all the clever ways people use Rule Above (or Rule Below) to create cool things that don’t really look like normal lines. For example, here’s a big red circle that floats up and to the left of a paragraph:

This could have been done with an anchored object, but in this case…

Exporting JPG Pictures from InDesign

One of the most amusing aspects of writing (whether it be books or articles or blog posts) is that I can research something, write about it, and then a year later completely forget that the feature existed at all. This happened to me this morning, as I was working on the update to Real World […]

Corbis Launches New Photography Award In Partnership with Golden Drum Festival

Corbis (www.corbis.com), a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, today announced the call for entries for a new award in partnership with the Golden Drum Festival called the “Corbis Award for Creative Photography” to honor the best photography created for advertising and promotions in 2006 and 2007. This is the second consecutive year […]

Animation Pure and Simple with Toon Boom Digital Pro

Emmy Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. today announced the release of Toon Boom Digital Pro, its latest high-performance animation software. Packaged in an easy-to-use interface, Toon Boom Digital Pro is the complete animation software for professionals, offering advanced content creation, animation and compositing capabilities within a single application.   Productivity tools such as state-of-the-art vector […]

Image Trends, Inc. Announces SensorKleen Pro, Plus the Availability of the ShineOff and PearlyWhites Plug-In's for Mac

Image Trends™, the provider of innovative digital imaging tools, today announces SensorKleen Pro™, a software application that allows the user to automatically erase the dust and debris in a set of Digital SLR (DSLR) camera images. The SensorKleen™ SmartBrush™ product (included with SensorKleen Pro) allows you to correct defects on individual images. Initially, SensorKleen Pro, […]