July, 2011 | CreativePro Network

Match Colors on Android and iOS Devices with Pantone Apps

Version 1 of the myPantone color-matching app debuted back in September 2009. At last, Pantone has updated the app, which runs on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. myPantone 2.0 adds the ability to print color palettes from your iOS device, CMYK support for Pantone PLUS SERIES Colors, and access to ICC color-managed values. Pantone […]

Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny

Draw Your Own Font Under the heading of quirky but useful is FontStruct, a Web app for drawing fonts from font retailer FontShop. Using familiar drawing tools and geometric shapes on a grid, you build a font character by character. When you finish, FontStruct generates a TrueType font usable on Windows and Mac OSX. Note […]

Creating Two Kinds of Page Breaks in EPUB with CS5.5

You might want to set page breaks in an EPUB using two different paragraph styles in InDesign CS5.5. Here’s how.

Temporary Tattoos Go Designer

Tina Roth Eisenberg, the designer and entrepreneur more commonly known as swissmiss, has launched a new venture. Tattly is an online shop for temporary tattoos that are hipper than your average skull or dragon and sure to appeal to designers, photographers, and typographers. Each tattoo come as a set of two and costs $5; you […]

Extensis Portfolio Server Updates to Version 10

There are many paths you can take to give people in a company remote access to the company’s files. You can cobble together something using, say, Dropbox, or you build your own software program to manage the assets, or you can buy an existing data asset manager. Portfolio Server falls into the third camp. The […]