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If you’re a Creative Cloud (CC) subscriber, you know you have access to a wealth of apps and services. But all those choices can be overwhelming at times. I often find [...]
September 2014
Rethinking the Pixel: It’s All Relative Now
How big is a pixel? It’s widely thought that a pixel is the smallest dot that screen hardware can physically display: One pixel is one pixel. That was safe to assume for [...]
Fast Photoshop: Blending Text With a Photo
OK, I realize this is kind of meta, since it’s a CreativePro article about an image for a CreativePro article, but as I was preparing the slideshow image for Erica [...]
Awesome Autumnal Assets
Fall—or autumn if you prefer—when days get shorter, evening air feels crisper, and everything is pumpkin-spiced. It’s lurking around the corner, can you smell it? [...]
Designer Imagines Beer in Pantone Swatches
Spanish designer Txaber imagines a world where beer lovers choose their brew by Pantone color. Wrapping the suds in cans and bottles with nothing more than a field of color [...]
Creating a Blend Mode Test Layer in Photoshop
Blending Modes use a top layer to change the appearance of the layer, or layers below. This image shows the results of adding a blue fill layer and a blending mode above the [...]
Photoshop Blur Gallery: Tilt Shift
Editor’s Note: Don’t miss the earlier articles in the Photoshop Blur Gallery series: Spin Blur and Path Blur. The tilt-shift effect is a visual style which [...]
Free Webinars on Typography
I’m not a typophile. I don’t have an opinion on Frutiger vs. Helvetica vs. Clearview. I can put two typefaces together and see if they look pleasant, but [...]
TypeTalk: The Five Best (and most underused) Features of OpenType Fonts
OpenType fonts have been the font format of choice for the last decade or so, significantly outperforming the technologically outdated Type1 and TrueType fonts. But in spite [...]
The Origin of the Seattle Seahawks Logo
I’m not a big sports fan—though I’ve enjoyed a summer of AAA baseball in my new hometown—and I don’t really care one way or the other about (American) [...]
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