April, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Don Quixote, Wilco, Illustrator, Veer — and You

You don’t have to be a fan of the band Wilco to enter Veer’s new design contest, although it helps. But if you like the novel Don Quixote, and if you like to support creative writing programs for kids, then this contest is for you. (It helps some, too, if you use Illustrator.) Veer is […]

First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS6

There are decisive moments in everyone’s life, events that result in profound changes and mark the beginning of new opportunities. For Adobe Illustrator, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2012, CS6 is definitely a milestone. Once you have passed the odd new splash screen, the first thing you will notice is the adoption by Illustrator […]

Pantone Gets 336-Shades More Colorful

Feeling dazzled by color? It’s not just the colors of spring flowers that are distracting. It’s also the introduction of 336 new Pantone colors. The new shades are part of the Pantone Plus Series, the second-generation color guides that replaced the traditional PMS colors in 2010. The original colors were retained, but new shades were […]

Adobe CS6 Downpour Begins

Today Adobe took the wraps off its upcoming Creative Suite 6 applications and, perhaps more significantly, its new Creative Cloud subscription service. Creative Suite 6 In addition to upgrading all individual point products (except Acrobat and Flash Builder that will revved at a later date), the company also unveiled new suite line-ups: Design & Web […]

First Look: Adobe InDesign CS6

Adobe has focused its efforts with InDesign CS6 on solving the problems of designers trying to create and deliver great layouts for multiple outputs. In fact, this is one of the main themes of CS6 and the CreativeCloud. So if you’re the person being asked to produce content that fits anything from a billboard to […]

Go Public with Photoshop CS6 Beta

Go Public with Photoshop CS6 Beta Having you been playing with the Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta? Have you been making cool stuff? More importantly, do you want to make cool stuff with the Photoshop CS6 beta?? The Photoshop team wants your creations! Here’s the deal: Create something exciting, compelling, extraordinary &38212; or just dang good […]

Extensis Updates Suitcase Fusion

A new version of Suitcase Fusion, the font management application from Extensis, came out this week. Suitcase Fusion 4 has a number of features that users of Adobe Creative Suit applications will especially appreciate. The most interesting — and timesaving — feature is the addition of font panels that let you see your font library […]

Scanning Around With Gene: The Era of "Mad" Women

I haven’t had a television for the last couple of years, so I’ve never seen the series “Mad Men,” though from all the media reports I feel like I have. Everywhere I turn these days it seems like there’s some nostalgia (good and bad) for the era of heavy drinking, heavy smoking, racism and sexism, […]