August, 2011 | CreativePro Network

Epson Introduces New Photo Printers

Epson designed the new Artisan 837 and Artisan 730 wireless all-in-one printers for photographers. You can output to the printers from your computer or from the printers themselves via memory card slots and navigation displays. Both printers come with built-in wireless and Ethernet networking. The company says that the $300 837 and $200 730 are […]

GIF Files Are Photoshop CS5 Security Risk

Adobe’s John Nack has reported on his blog that it’s possible for hackers to crash Photoshop CS5 (and only CS5) with malicious code hidden in GIF files. To prevent this, Adobe recommends that you first update to the most recent version of Photoshop CS5. Go to the Help > Updates menu and apply all of […]

Rag Time Is Perfect Game for Picky Typographers

Fathom, an information design company, has created a game called Rag Time. With the synthesized music of classic computer games as your soundtrack, you race against time to fix the rags of four sample texts. You use arrow keys to navigate through the paragraphs to a line-ending you want to change, then either hyphenate a […]

Photoshop How-to: Give a Horse Wings

Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com. Pegasus (a horse with wings) may be a mythical animal, but you can bring it to life in Photoshop. To begin, you’ll take two photos—one of a normal horse, one of a normal bird—convert them to grayscale, and combine them into the beautiful silhouette of a winged horse. Along […]

TypeTalk: Five Typographic No-Nos

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. Q. You write a lot about good typographic practices. Any advice on what not to do, typographically speaking? A. There are a number of poor typographic practices that can easily slip into your work. Here are […]

Design Salary Survey Reflects Steady Volume But Narrow Margins

The Survey of Design Salaries, conducted by AIGA and Aquent, is eleven years old, a history that gives us a handy way to track designer compensation trends over time. But this year, the organizations decided to temporarily lessen that historical value by revising the survey’s position titles and descriptions, making it more difficult to compare […]

Amazon’s Kindle Publishing Guidelines for InDesign

Amazon’s Kindle Publishing Team released a new help file to help InDesign users publish to the Kindle, and the file itself practices what it preaches: it’s an InDesign document. Neat.

Podcast 154

• Writing in InDesign: why would you write from scratch in a page-layout program?
• Our first-ever What-The-Heck (WTH) feature: Fit Selection to Window

Quark Acquired By Investment Firm

Platinum Equity, an investment firm based in Los Angeles, has acquired Quark, the company behind publishing software QuarkXPress. I asked Quark PR representative Sarah Rector several questions that may be on the minds of Quark users. Her answers are below. CreativePro.com: Will the company keep the name “Quark”? Quark: Yes. CreativePro.com: Will Quark continue to […]