Web/Mobile

Last-Second Valentine Gifts

Creative professionals are often expected to come up with thoughtful, unusual, handmade, heartfelt gifts for their valentines. Hopefully you've been too busy with work for all that. These last-second gifts may save your reputation.

Facebook Gives Photographers Better Viewing Experience

New Facebook lightbox feature offers alternative to Google+ and Flickr.

Construct a Color Wheel in Photoshop

The color wheel is a simple yet powerful tool for understanding how colors work and how colors relate to each other. It can also be a gorgeous graphic you can use in print and Web design projects.

Cutting-Edge Conference for Print and Digital Publishing

Whether you're looking for the latest tips on publishing to tablets and ebooks, want details on the upcoming Adobe Creative Suite 6, or just need tips to optimize your print workflow, PEPCON is the place. The conference takes place in San Francisco on May 14-16.

What's That Web Font?

WhatFont is a free tool that works with your Web browser to identify webfonts.

Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive

Because we all need a little weirdness in our lives.

Have Fun, Win an iPad

Our parent company is giving away an iPad and a Kindle Fire to the first- and second-place winners of a new contest, called "Make Work Fun".

Is Apple's eBook Tool Right for Graphic Designers?

Apple's new eBook creation software, called iBooks Author, is free and available for download now. Apple says that it's as easy to use as a word processor. But will it have the controls you need as a graphic designer?

This Dress Code Will Inspire You

Whatever your personal style, watch this video about the design agency Dress Code and be inspired by the founders' positive, wide-open take on what's possible for today's creatives.

Free For All: Stock Photos, Social Media Profiles, and Calendar Templates

It’s 2012, the year the world is supposed to end. Let’s mark the occasion with fiery explosions, templates for Twitter and Facebook profiles, and - for the more optimistic among you - calendar templates.

Lights, Camera, Action, and InDesign!

While you may not think of InDesign as a video tool, you’ve actually been able to place video into InDesign since CS2. Here's what you need to know to place video in InDesign and output the results to PDFs, SWFs, ePUBS, and iPad apps.

QuarkXPress Updates to 9.2

This free update to QuarkXPress strengthens support for ePUB and iPad app publishing.

Starry, Starry Type

Gravilux 2.0 is an app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that lets you render text in stars and then affect that text with the gravitational forces of an alternate univers. It's art, it's a game, it's Gravilux!

What Interested You in 2011? Google Knows.

For the eleventh year in a row, Google has released what it calls the "Year-End Zeitgeist," which crunches search data to reveal what people wanted to know more about in the past twelve months.

Free For All: Give Yourself These Gifts

Ring in the New Year with this jolly collection of goodwill to creative freebies, including photo mosaic software, fonts, stock photos, print-your-own graph paper, and inspiring 2012 desktop and tablet wallpapers.

Ole! Meet Pantone's Color of the Year for 2012

Pantone has chosen Tangerine Tango as the 2012 "color of the year". This reddish-orange hue will put a kick in your step.

Review: Adobe Proto

Adobe’s new Android app lets you prototype a website using touches, taps, and swipes. And at $9.99, it's a lot cheaper than the desktop alternatives. But is Proto right for your needs?

2011 Holiday Gift Guide

Flummoxed by what to buy for the creative professional on your gift list? Perhaps one of the items in the 2011 CreativePro.com Holiday Gift Guide will do the trick.

Mag+ Lowers Price of Tablet Publishing, Adds Android Support

For $199, you can begin an app in InDesign and end up with a full-fledged app to distribute in commercial stores.

Five Tips for Choosing the Best Webfonts

Learn how to evaluate typeface readability, legibility, optimization, character set, and weight and thickness variety when choosing fonts for a website. Plus, I'll throw in a bonus tip!