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The Best of Macworld/iWorld 2013
A Brief History of MacworldEven for those of us old enough to have lived through it, it’s very hard to imagine life before the modern internet. In those times (from the 1984 launch of the Macintosh to...
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Russell Brown’s Adobe Paper Textures for PhotoshopFrom the wacky brilliance of Doctor Russell Brown and the folks at FlyPaper Textures comes the Adobe Paper Textures panel for Photoshop. The panel lets...
View ArticleWidget Wonderland: Adding Social Media Buttons and Widgets to Your Website or...
Getting the word out has never been something you can do all by yourself: It takes a village. Even Paul Revere, as he galloped from town to town in 1775, needed to enlist the help of influential...
View ArticleBetter Tools for Tones: Why I Don’t Look at the Histogram
The histogram—the graph of tonal levels you see in photo-editing software—helps you evaluate the tone and color characteristics of an image. But when you think about the reasons why we’re taught to use...
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ePublishing with InDesign CS6: Designing for Multiple Devices
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 8 of ePublishing with InDesign CS6 by Pariah Burke. The entire chapter, along with the book’s introduction and full table of contents is available as an...
View ArticleA Celebration of Hand Lettering
The last time I wrote about signage in the developing world (Go on a Type Safari, 4/1/10), I was roasted by some readers for failing to distinguish between setting type and hand lettering.read more
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It Takes More Than Talent
The following is an excerpt from When Talent Isn’t Enough: Business Basics for the Creatively Inclined by Kristen Fischer. You can also download this excerpt as a PDF.Reprinted, with permission of the...
View Article25 Creative CVs and Resumés
If your resume and CV (curriculum vitae, definition) look like the one below, then you’re failing to impress prospective employers, partners, and clients. You’re a creative professional! Look like it!...
View ArticleiPad Photo Workflow
For the traveling photographer—or anyone who shoots in the field—the release of the iPad offered the possibility of a much lighter, easier field kit. Unfortunately, for the first few years of the...
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Illustrator Brush Tips
While searching through my archives for art pieces to show in my new course for lynda.com, Artistic Painting with Illustrator: Natural Media Brushes, I found this “watercolor” image created with...
View ArticleCreative Kickstarter Projects to Back Now
Today you were supposed to read a new installment of Free for All, my column wherein I find all sorts of great design freebies. We preempted Free for All in favor of this article because of the...
View ArticleHerb Lubalin and Expressive Typography
An important aspect in the education of a designer is learning about those who came before. One influential designer not to be overlooked is Herb Lubalin (Loob-a-lin), who was one of the most prominent...
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Using Pattern Brushes in Illustrator
The following content is excerpted from The Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book by Sharon Steuer. Copyright © 2013. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press.read more
View ArticleTake Charge With Adobe Bridge
One of the most frustrating tasks any photographer, artist, or designer faces is trying to find files they know they have somewhere on their drive, but can’t remember where they put them, what they...
View ArticleTen Great "Lost" Text Faces
History is cruel to typefaces—especially text faces—and very few stand the test of time. For every Caslon or Garamond there are a hundred also-rans left along the road for reasons of taste, economics,...
View ArticleAround the World in ePublishing with Pariah Burke: Adobe Illustrator: The...
Each installment of Around the World in ePublishing looks at a different digital publication—sometimes an ebook, sometimes an etextbook, sometimes a digital magazine or catalog. With each publication...
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The Creative Zone: Taking Your Photography to the Next Level
Excerpted from Canon EOS M: From Snapshots to Great Shots by Jeff Carlson. Copyright © 2013. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. In addition to the HTML version of the...
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Bad Fonts
Type “Bad Fonts” into a search engine and you’ll get back a long list of web pages and blogs discussing the authors' most hated fonts. For the most part, these “worst of” lists are good-humored,...
View ArticleCloud Backup Solutions
If you’re a CreativePro reader, by now you (hopefully) back up your computer on a regular basis to safeguard your work. And if you’re a Mac user, you’re using probably using Time Machine for your...
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