When the iPad first came out, two photographers I know tried it, didn’t like it, and handed it right back to Apple. But another photographer (Jennifer Wills, also an occasional CreativePro.com author) tried it and fell in love. Not only was the iPad much easier to take anywhere—from the boardroom to the beach—but her photos […]
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It’s hard to imagine when people didn’t take electricity for granted, yet in the beginning electricity was restricted primarily to lighting. And as a utility, it was not well understood. People could wrap their heads around the concept of gas, but electricity remained a mystery. In 1926, Ashton B. Collins was working at the Alabama […]
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• Interview with Russell Viers
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How magazine puts on some killer conferences. I’ll be lucky enough to attend one this year: the HOW Design Conference from June 24 through 27. It’s just one of four HOW events that are taking place at the end of June in Chicago. The manager of these conferences tells me that the early bird rates […]
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Pros: Publishes e-books to three formats; adds helpful new features for producing text-heavy documents regardless of their final destination. Cons: The App Studio for creating iPad apps may not be available until late July; some e-book formatting must occur after the document content is completely finalized. [Editor’s note: CreativePro.com will publish Jay Nelson’s mini-review of […]
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When version 10.6.7 of Mac OS X came out on March 2011, some people who installed it began having printing, display, and PDF troubles with some documents that contained OpenType PostScript fonts. Note the qualifying “some”: In a FontFeed blog post, Kurt Lang noted that “programs like Adobe InDesign are safe” from the bug, which […]
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John Boardley, the man behind the excellent blog I Love Typography, is about to publish a new quarterly print magazine called Codex. The first issue will be 144 full-color pages and have only limited ads—in other words, a whole lot of typographic treats. In addition, Linotype is including its “Fonts in Focus” publication, but only […]
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While the general public may be wowed by the look of big lenses, savvy photographers know that the seemingly modest 50mm lens is often the best choice. They’re usually great in low light, with a small size that means they’re easy to fit in a bag (and makes you less conspicuous), and they often deliver […]
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If you have InDesign CS5, get thee to the Adobe website and download the InDesign CS5 7.0.4 update. Adobe says that installing the patch will resolve several technical problems and improve text, graphics, and overall performance in InDesign CS5. For an exhaustive list of what’s in the update, check out the release notes. You can […]
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