May, 2008 | CreativePro Network

Photojojo Offers Keyboard Shortcut Skins for Macs

You know that Photoshop whiz kid friend of yours? The one that plays his keyboard like a Steinway as he dodges and burns his way to photographic perfection? That could be you. Be the pinball wizard. But for Photoshop (or Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, After Effects, or Logic Pro)! You wouldn’t learn how […]

Xerox Unveils Prepress Workflow Software Designed and Priced Specifically for Entry-Level Production Printing

Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) is bringing powerful workflow software to entry-level production print environments with FreeFlow™ Express to Print, the latest addition to its industry-leading portfolio of workflow tools. With a highly visual graphical user interface, FreeFlow Express to Print helps perform job ticketing and prepress functions with a simple click, drag and drop method. […]

Adobe Releases Three New Public Betas

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today gave a sneak peek at three applications from the next release of Adobe Creative Suite, its award-winning collection of graphic design, Web development and video editing applications. The company released public beta of new versions of Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Soundbooth as free downloads on Adobe labs. Once […]

Non-Rectangular Text Wrap Around Drop Caps

Someone recently asked me about making non-rectangular wraps around drop caps — you know, like a diagonal wrap along the right side of a “V”. InDesign can’t do this automatically; instead, it wraps to the character’s always-vertical right side bearing. You can, however, force the diagonal (or any other shape) pretty easily: Place a text […]

Educating Designers in a Connected World

The Social Studies conference is a project of AIGA, sponsored by Adobe Systems. The conference is hosted by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). This AIGA design educators’ conference addresses the social life of design. Graphic designers work with clients, institutions, users, and communities to make things happen in the world. Yet education often […]

HP Makes it Easy to Make Smart Environmental Choices with Unrivaled Portfolio of Printing Solutions

HP unveiled a broad effort to help make it easy for customers to reduce the environmental impact of their imaging and printing. Targeting customers spanning individual consumers to large businesses, the wide-ranging initiative includes elements such as: * an enterprise printing assessment service and a carbon calculator that together comprehensively address energy and paper use, […]

New Xerox Printers and Multifunction Products

With the launch of five printers and multifunction products, Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) makes it easier and more affordable for small and mid-sized businesses to get more work done on even the tightest of budgets. The new offerings range from the $279 Xerox Phaser™ 3100MFP multifunction printer that prints, copies and scans, to the $1,999 […]

Zevrix Releases Updates to InPreflight and LinkOptimizer

InPreflight 2.5 Released The new version of InPreflight, version 2.5, is released, adding the following new capabilities and bug fixes: -NEW: Graphic Preflight Reports. Preflight results can now be printed and saved to PDF – and they look just the way you see them in InPreflight. –When you save report as PDF on Leopard, the […]