December, 2008 | CreativePro Network

Ruby on Rails + Merb = Rails 3

In an article posted on Ars Technica, Ryan Paul reported that Rails and Merb programmers will join forces, and Merb will be folded into Rails 3, the upcoming major release of the open-source Web framework. According to the article, Merb is not as widely used as Rails but does share some code with it and […]

HP Introduces Free Photo Printing Application

HP today announced HP iPrint Photo, a free application available on the Apple App store that gives iPhone and iPod touch customers the ability to easily print photos anytime, anywhere. HP iPrint Photo is the first photo printing application of its kind and allows for quick and easy wireless printing of 4 x 6-inch photos […]

Create with Pixel Bender and Win

Pixel Bender, which you can download for free from Adobe Labs, is an engine that enables programmers to create image transformations not currently available in Photoshop CS4 or other Adobe apps. If you have the programming chops, you can enter a Pixel Bender kernel contest and win one of two prizes: an Alienware Area-51 PC […]

Zoom Effect in Photoshop

This zoom effect how-to works in most versions of Photoshop. Step 1 Open a photo in Photoshop and choose the elliptical marquee tool from the toolbox. Make a selection on the photo, as shown in Figure 1. Tip: Hold the space bar to reposition the selection as you are drawing it. Step 2 Now feather […]

Transform the MacBook Trackpad into a Drawing Tablet

Ten One Design, LLC, creators of the Pogo Stylus, the world’s first iPhone and iPod touch compatible stylus, announces its latest invention – the Pogo Sketch. Made specifically for use with the newest MacBook multi-touch trackpad, this unique stylus transforms the notebook into a pen tablet for premium drawing programs and artistic applications. The advanced […]

Putting SWFs into InDesign documents

I can’t tell you what a long and sad story this is. But bear with me. Billions of years ago, (around the time of Acrobat 5) I wrote a book with two friends all about the interactive features in Acrobat PDF files. One of the coolest things we demonstrated was how you could add SWF […]

Good Advice for Bad Times

Shel Perkins recently published the article “Good Advice for Bad Times” as part of AIGA’s Center for Practice Management. In it, he walks through six strategies to help you cope with our slow economy: 1. Get back to basics 2. Pump up new business development 3. Cut labor costs 4. Cut other costs 5. Manage […]

CreativePro.com's Top 10 Articles of 2008: Part II

We went through our site logs to put together a list of the ten most-visited CreativePro.com articles published in 2008. We revealed numbers 10 through 6 here; now it’s time for the final 5. 5. Turn Color Photos into Duotones in Photoshop You can transform one photograph into a wide variety of duotones to use […]