August, 2009 | CreativePro Network

Color Tool Gets Major Update

Version 1 of Petr Stanicek’s free, Web-based palette generator Color Scheme Designer debuted way back in 2002. Now at version 3, it has matured into a tool that’s attractive with lots of features, yet fun to use. You have your choice of monochromatic, complimentary, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic color palettes. You can tweak […]

Using InCopy to Clean Up Word Files

Tom, a journalism professor and InDesign/InCopy user, e-mailed me about his interesting use of InCopy as kind of a “Word cleaner plug-in:” Because I like and understand InDesign and have had quirky problems using Word files, I’ve come up with a new workflow that puts InCopy in the middle. Quickly: I edit in Word then […]

TypeTalk: Does Foundry Size Matter?

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. If Ilene answers your question in the blog, you’ll receive one Official Creativepro.com T-Shirt! Q. There are so many places to buy type. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both large and small font foundries? […]

Time — and Adobe — March On

Adobe already announced that CS5, the next version of its Creative Suite software, will run only on Windows and Macs with Intel processors, leaving PowerPC Macs behind. Now the company reports that it has not and will not test how well CS3 plays with the imminent Mac OS X 10.6 update. Apple is releasing its […]

Safari Books Online Adds 250+ Training Videos

Safari® Books Online, the leading on-demand digital library for technology, creative and business professionals, announced today that it is offering more than 250 new training videos from top training video companies such as Total Training, Talented Pixie, Class On Demand, Skill-Pill, and PeepCode. Many of the videos are available now with the rest coming online […]

Combine Images Quickly in Photoshop

Photoshop is a valuable tool for editing one image, but you can double your creative options when you use the software to merge two images. Photoshop’s Paste Into command gives you a quick and easy way to combine two images into a masked region. Although I’ll demonstrate the feature in CS4, the Paste Into command […]

Mapdiva Launches Ortelius Map Illustration Software

Mapdiva, LLC announced the first release of Ortelius map illustration software ($79 introductory price) for Mac OS X. Ortelius is a vector-based drawing program made especially for (though by no means limited to) map design and presentation. Through its drag-and-drop interface, Ortelius offers a creative solution for floor plans, landscape plans, scaled drawings, and a […]

Camtasia Now Available for Mac

TechSmith Corp., the world’s leading provider of screen capture and screen recording programs, announced that Camtasia for Mac is available immediately for download and purchase. With Camtasia for Mac customers can create professional and engaging presentations, demonstrations, screencasts, training and marketing videos in HD-quality video to reach audiences online, on Apple portable media devices, and […]