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 transparent calligraphic brushes back in Adobe Illustrator 10, in 2002.
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 iPad’s existence, the software did not exist to facilitate a pro-level workflow. Over the last few months, though, a few new apps have hit the store, and they’ve brought some important new post-production capabilities. Depending on your post needs, you might now be able to get away with taking only your camera and an iPad into the field.
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! Everything you produce with your name on it should sell you and your creative skills. Let accountants and sales people stick with the black on white, block-style resumes and CVs; as a designer you need a CV that stands out.
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 publisher, from WHEN TALENT ISN'T ENOUGH © 2013 Kristen Fischer. Published by Career Press, Pompton Plains, NJ. 800-227-3371. All rights reserved.
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.
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 exclusive download for CreativePro readers here (48 pages, PDF).
The histogram is a classic tool for quickly reading the tones in an image. But other tools can tell you exactly where problematic pixels are for any output, and help you craft better-looking images faster.
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 networkers in each community to make sure his message got to everyone who needed to hear it.
In the social media age, reaching the widest possible audience involves encouraging your audience to assist you in getting the word out — by making it as easy as possible for them to reshare your content with their own friends and followers.
From the wacky brilliance of Doctor Russell Brown and the folks at FlyPaper Textures comes the Adobe Paper Textures panel for Photoshop. The panel lets you choose from an excellent selection of textures by FlyPaper to apply to your artwork in a variety of blend modes. You can load in your own texture images. Looking for a happy accident? Try the panel’s Chaos Randomizer.
The extension is available in two versions: free, as in free for everyone, and Pro, which is free to current Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers.
