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Create Multimedia Photo and Print Books with Pholium

Ever want to create a high-quality interactive photobook with multimedia features that looks gorgeous in print and on the iPad? Check out the free iPad app Pholium.  Pholium is integrated with Dropbox and Instagram to give you easy means to access your photos. You can craft the look of your pages manually, or use Pholium’s auto-layout feature to […]

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Extensis Updates Universal Type Server

If you need to synchronize font sets and manage font licenses for a team of creative professionals, you know how important that job is—and how much effort it takes. That’s why Extensis offers a solution to take the pain out of group font management, called Universal Type Server 4. And now they have released an […]

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Isolating Layers in Photoshop

In Photoshop, you can isolate layers to work on objects without having to search through dozens of layers, locking, or hiding everything that might get in your way—but beware! The feature works differently depending on whether you are working with a vector layer or an image layer. IsolateLayersCSMenuItem The Isolate Layers command lives in the Select […]

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Stop Hyphenated (Compound) Words from Hyphenating

Cathy wrote: Is there an easy way  to change preferences so that it will not hyphenate a hyphenated word? For instance “over-the-mountain” will break “over-the-moun-”  and bring “tain” on the next line. Our editors do not like even if it breaks at “over-the-” and bring “mountain” on the next line – they consider that a […]

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Create Living Photos With Flixel Cinemagraph Pro

Cinemagraph Pro for Mac allows users to create cinemagraph images, which are a blend of still images and video. When well done well, cinemagraphs have a uniquely haunting quality.  We’ve written about them here at CreativePro a few times, with inspirational examples and links to tutorials. And now for a very short time (through March […]

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X-Rite Launches Free ColorTRUE App

Press Release Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 17, 2014 — X-Rite, Incorporated, the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies, today announced the release of ColorTRUE™ for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. ColorTRUE provides photographers, designers, and prepress professionals the ability to calibrate and profile their tablet and mobile devices for accurate color matching. ColorTRUE […]

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Spring Training: Learn New Design Skills Free Online

I just got back from a trip to Phoenix, Arizona where I was consulting on a new type of digital publication. While there, providing training in the Spring to my client’s team, I took in a spring training MLB baseball game. On the plane home I was struck by the correlation between the two types […]

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