Cristen Gillespie

Cristen Gillespie is a contributing writer for The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Books, and has coauthored The Photoshop WOW! Book. She has also coauthored articles for Photoshop User magazine. With a decades-long enthusiasm for the digital world of art and multimedia, and an equal interest in digitally preserving and presenting family histories, she enjoys the challenge of teaching others to love the software she loves, broadening her own digital horizons, as well as getting the opportunity to work with files from some of the very best digital artists out there.
  • Features: Written by Cristen Gillespie on May 6, 2013

    With strong enhancements to both creative tools and productivity features, Adobe Illustrator CC (Creative Cloud) will have artists and designers alike looking forward to the upgrade.

  • Features: Written by Cristen Gillespie on April 22, 2013

    When performing a critical review of your images, Review Mode and Slideshow features in Bridge provide productive environments whether handling one image or a thousand.

  • Features: Written by Cristen Gillespie on March 24, 2013

    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 named them, or when they created them in the first place. Adobe Bridge is packed with features designed to help users find their files as quickly and painlessly as possible, but of course, Bridge can only truly help if the user knows how to manage Bridge itself.

  • Features: Written by Cristen Gillespie on January 14, 2013

    We’ve all done it. We’ve all been so involved in the creative process that we don’t realize what a disorganized mess we’re making of our layers, our studio, our dining room table. When we come up for air, the task of organizing seems almost monumental. We try to talk ourselves into skipping it. We’ll do it later or, if think we can get away with it, not at all. But nothing puts the brakes on a creative journey faster than not being able to find quickly what you need to work with.

  • Features: Written by Cristen Gillespie on August 30, 2012
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    In this first of an ongoing series on CreativePro.com,

  • Features: Written by Cristen Gillespie on September 14, 2011

    Excerpted from The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book by Sharon Steuer. Copyright © 2011. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press.

    To receive a 35% discount on this book plus free shipping in the continental U.S., go to the Peachpit Press Online Store and enter the discount code CS5WOW during the checkout process.