October, 2009 | CreativePro Network

Spark! Ignites Team Concept Reviews

Press release MetaCommunications announced the November 2nd launch and availability of Spark!, a new browser-based tool designed to facilitate collaboration between content creators and their clients. Spark! enables simple-to-use creative concept review workspaces where document content, including PDFs and graphic files, can be collaboratively discussed, revised, and routed for final approvals. Spark! is specifically designed […]

Prep and Color Scanned Drawings in Photoshop

Since it opened in 1996, design studio The Chopping Block has always done things a bit differently. (Just look at its mission statement: ‘World Domination Through Graphic Design”.) Now Principal/Designer Matthew Richmond is sharing his technique for taking hand-drawn artwork from paper to Photoshop, and yes, it’s a little different. As Matthew notes, the usual […]

Operation Photo Rescue

If you’re proud of your digital image restoration chops, do a good deed and volunteer with Operation Photo Rescue (OPR). Its mission is to “repair photographs damaged by unforeseen circumstances such as house fires and natural disasters at no cost to the people who own them.” Once you fill out the volunteer application form, you’ll […]

Halloween Costume Photography How-To

Just in time for the big day, Instructables has published a handy how-to on photographing Halloween costumes. The tutorial gives you tips on lighting, location, background control, posing, and more. Instructables also has tips for shooting the best Halloween pumpkin pictures.

No-Cost Photoshop Brushes

The Brush King Web site is a rich source of free Photoshop brushes. Here are just three from the Nature category. Little Birdi There are five brushes in the Little Birdi set. Author “The Rusty Leaf” notes that they were made in Photoshop CS3 and Inkscape, and that the brushes are free for personal or […]

Create Depth of Field with FocalPoint 2

Press release onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative, timesaving solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers, today announced FocalPoint 2, an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for simulating depth-of-field and selective focus. With FocalPoint 2 photographers can create realistic selective focus, depth-of-field and vignette effects that help focus attention on an area of an image […]

Photoshop Plug-In PhotoTune 3 Optimizes Images

Press release onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of innovative, timesaving solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers, today announced PhotoTune 3, an Adobe Photoshop plug-in for optimizing digital photos. The improved PhotoTune Wizard walks new users through the optimizing process in as little as two steps with no need to understand color theory or […]

Lensbaby Announces New Step-Up/Shade

Press release Lensbaby announces the addition of the new Step-Up/Shade, a combination 37mm to 52mm step-up ring/lens shade, to the Lensbaby Creative Effects SLR lens system which includes Single Lens-Reflex (SLR) lenses, interchangeable optics, and accessories. On sale now, this small and lightweight step-up ring, featuring 52mm threads on the front, also serves as a […]

Review: CtrlChanges for InDesign

This article is excerpted from the August/September 2009 issue of InDesign Magazine, #31. Subscribe to InDesign Magazine. Pros: If you require text changes to be tracked in your InDesign files, CtrlChanges gets the job done and is simple to use. Cons: Difficult to see the text in tracked deletions. Must buy pricey Pro version to […]