Graphics Features

The Best App for Managing Digital Assets

Most designers and photographers rely on Photoshop. But to save ourselves from drowning in an ocean of digital assets, we also need an app dedicated to managing those assets. If you want to stay in an Adobe workflow, that means either Lightroom or Bridge. Which one is right for you?

Best of the Blogs: Old School and New Skills

Don't have time to keep up with design and photography blogs? Keep calm and read on. In this blog round-up you'll find the most popular fonts of 2011, an amazing type book from 1912, a Herb Lubalin video from the 1980s, and a Photoshop cooking demonstration from 2007. Plus, there are plenty of Photoshop how-tos, digital photography tips, and design ideas.

Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive

Because we all need a little weirdness in our lives.

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.

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.

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.

Free For All: November 2011

This month's mixed assortment of free resources includes 2012 calendar templates; a vector kit of pre-press and markup symbols; 13 typefaces; 60 photos of paper; and one way to sign and send a document without a fax machine.

Best of the Blogs: November 17, 2011

If you've been distracted by headline news over the past few weeks, here's what you missed in design and photography blogs: revisiting 1990s typography, debunking UV filter myths, getting the light right, demystifying Photoshop resampling options, peeking at designer workspaces, and touring Erik Spiekermann's house. Plus, an opportunity to change someone's life with your camera.

Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011

This circumnavigation of the blogosphere includes posts about fonts (best, worst, and missing), color correction (Photoshop curves and/or levels), paper (handmade and mill run), printers (desktop and press), color calibration (monitor and printer), and an impressive if controversial demo of photo-deblurring technology. Plus, job hunting tips and product how-tos.

Free For All: Design and Photography Freebies

Here's how to get 10 InDesign table styles, 12 sans serif fonts, 13 letterpress Photoshop layer styles, and 3 color reference infographics. And none of them will cost you a thing!

Free for All: Oodles of Photoshop Effects Brushes

Enliven your Photoshop images with close to 2,000 effects brushes. They're all free for commercial and personal use.

Best of the Blogs: September 21, 2011

Lately, there have been a lot of provocative questions in design and photography blogs: Are there rules for creativity? Can designers embrace fear? What's the difference between looking at and seeing typography? But there's less cerebral stuff, too, like upgrading your camera, understanding image compositing, observing the day of a graphic designer, and filling your layouts with hipster lingo. I bring you all of that content and more in this installment of Best of the Blogs.

Terrific Typographical Photoshop Brushes

Do a Google search for "free typography Photoshop brushes" and you'll find so many that your head will spin. We've helped you out by combing through the many possibilities and creating this one standout collection. We've even refined the results by dividing them into sub-categories, such as vintage, calligraphic, grunge, musical, and more.

Free For All: Photoshop Brushes Blowout

Take all these fabulous Photoshop brushes for the low, low price of $0 down and $0 per month! If your last name begins with a letter between A and Z, you may download these amazing free Photoshop brushes today. All others may download tomorrow.

Best of the Blogs: August 15, 2011

It's an excellent round-up this time, with Photoshop tips, typography tricks, publishing news, and much more. And read to the end to find out why you'll soon be speccing shades of orange as Apu, Garfield, or Tigger.

All Photos Are Manipulated

There is no such thing as absolute truth in photography. Understanding how and why photos are edited will make you a better shooter and a smarter viewer.

Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011

Amuse and inform yourself with tidbits from design, graphics, and photography blogs culled from the past few weeks. Find out about Bodoni love, InDesign crashes, Illustrator annoyances, Photoshop freakouts, and how to make Polaroid film and illustrated manuscripts (but not at the same time).

Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny

The amazing Internet once again yields a crop of freebies so good that you'd pay for them--but you don't have to! These free resources help you to make your own fonts, snag stock photos, watermark images, track your to-do's, and annotate Web pages.

Best of the Blogs: July 7, 2011

Mega-retailer Target meets tiny Hamilton Wood Type; Acrobat Pro X users get testy; photographers are called idiots; Photoshop warps girls' minds; and the Web is doomed. Read these and many other interesting tidbits culled from the past few weeks of design, graphics, and photography blog posts.

Best of the Blogs: June 23, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in the blogosphere over the last few weeks: an homage to the golden age of script lettering, photography tutorials, solutions for prying open ancient Word files, Web typography tips, and strategies for self-marketing. Plus Oprah!