April, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Fonts on Friday: Food Fonts

What better time to round up new typefaces than on Friday. Not only is “Fonts on Friday” alliterative, but showcasing new fonts also seems like a good way to end the week. Looking around for fonts to feature this week, I came across the Pancake Font” by Dutch foundry DTM. The font is crafted, as […]

TypeTalk: Copy Editing and Proofreading

Q. What is the difference between proofreading and copy editing? A. Any copy that is to be published, whether it be for print, the web, or even your own blog, should be carefully reviewed beforehand. Copy editing and proofreading refer to two distinctive kinds of review that are commonly confused or misunderstood. While there is […]

Use the Photoshop CS6 Beta and Get Noticed

Have 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? If so, the Photoshop team wants you! Here’s the deal: Create something exciting, compelling, extraordinary &38212; or just dang good — and your image could […]

How to See the Hexadecimal Value for a Given Color or Swatch

There is one location in InDesign CS5.5 or later that shows you the hexadecimal values for a color… can you guess what it is?

Add Gradients to Strokes in Illustrator CS6

Strokes are one of the essential building blocks of graphics created in Adobe Illustrator. Creating certain effects, however, required building stroke upon stroke upon stroke, thus resulting in complex files. Now a new feature has been added to Illustrator CS6 that allows you to add color gradients to strokes. This capability lets you create sophisticated […]

Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud Launch Event Set for April 23

We’ve known for quite some time that CS6 would be coming in the second quarter of 2012 but now we know the date. Adobe will be holding a special launch event on Monday, April 23 at 10:00 AM PDT. If this is anything like past events there will be demos of the various products and […]

New Mohawk Logo Designed by Pentagram

The 81-year-old paper company Mohawk unveiled a new logo that it says will let it “thrive in today’s digital world.” Pentagram partner Michael Bierut, who designed the logo, described it: “The logo is a monogram for the name Mohawk. It’s based on the letter M, but it’s also constructed to evoke the papermaking process and […]

Photoshop CS6 Beta: Welcome to the Dark Side

Excerpted from Photoshop CS6 Beta Preview on lynda.com. The most obvious change to Adobe Photoshop CS6 is its darkened interface. If you work in Lightroom, then you are already familiar with a dark gray workspace. If not, this Lynda.com video by Deke McClelland is a good introduction. Why did Adobe decide to do an about-face? […]