June, 2009 | CreativePro Network

Webinar Wednesdays for Photographers

Kubota Image Tools is now offering Webinar Wednesdays: free online educational opportunities created with today’s busy digital photographer in mind. Webinar attendees will have a chance to learn tips and tricks for using the Kubota DASHBOARD, Kubota AutoAlbum, Kubota Workflow and much more. Beginning today at 10:00 am PST, 1:00 pm EST, Webinar Wednesdays will […]

TypeTalk: Collect OpenType Fonts in Smart Sets

TypeTalk is a regular blog on typography. Post your questions and comments by clicking on the Comments icon above. If Ilene answers your question in the blog, you’ll receive one Official Creativepro.com T-Shirt! Q. Is there an easy way to identify all OpenType fonts on my computer? A. If you use one of the three […]

Rebus Script Is a Puzzling Font — Literally

Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced its newest OpenType font called Rebus Script to showcase the advanced features available in OpenType fonts for creative applications. Rebus Script is a handwriting style script font that includes a set of pictorial symbols that can automatically replace certain words and syllables. Rebus Script […]

FlightAlert XT for QuarkXPress 8

XChange UK and ThePowerXChange.com are pleased to announce the immediate availability of FlightAlert XT for QuarkXPress 8. FlightAlert XT combines on-the-fly error checking of QuarkXPress documents with one of the most powerful Collect For Output engines available. FlightAlert scans QuarkXPress documents for the key problems that regularly waste time, money and film. It is unique […]

Blurb Introduces PDF to Book

Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, share and sell bookstore-quality books, today announced the release of PDF to Book, available immediately. The new PDF to Book workflow gives creative professionals complete creative control to design books using the application of their choice, save the file as a PDF, […]

iStockphoto Improves Search Technology, Image Quality

iStockphoto’s multi-faceted searching capability has long been a leader in the microstock industry. Now iStock is officially introducing improved image-search algorithms, which the company has dubbed Best Match 2.0, that learn from customer behavior to fine-tune search results and return more relevant content. (The improvements have been in beta on the site for a while.) […]

Add More Images to your Multiplace Queue

Have you ever wanted to place multiple files from more than one folder at a time?

How to Take Inspired Photographs

This article is excerpted from Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs, which will be published by New Riders and Peachpit Press in August 2009. A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language. But how do you create these photographs? It’s not the how that’s important, but the […]

HP’s Web-Connected Printer

HP has unveiled the world’s first web-connected home printer: The HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web. HP is bringing the power of the web directly to the printer and combining it with HP’s TouchSmart technology to give people quick, easy, touchscreen access to popular digital content.(1) Designed for the digital generation and connected households, the […]