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Editor's Corner |
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Travel Tips for the Creative
Vacations are a great time to forget about the stresses of work. But when your work taps into your creative side, vacations are also ideal opportunities for recharging your creative batteries.
If you like to sketch, keep a notebook at hand and scribble away. Pack blank postcards and record your experiences with drawings on one side and text on the other, then send the cards to friends or family.
If you're more of a photographer than a sketcher, record your time away with a camera. You can, of course, post your shots on Flickr and Facebook, but you can also use a service like Bill Atkinson's PhotoCard. This $4.99 app for the iPhone and iPad prints your shots on 8.25" x 5.5" postcards and immediately mails them anywhere in the world. (Android users, check out Popcarte.)
Terri Stone - Editor in Chief
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Features |
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Composite Landscape Images with Photoshop
Sometimes a landscape photo has just the composition and mood you're going for. Other times, it seems like nothing you can find is quite right. When that's the case, don't settle for second-best. Supplement nature with Adobe Photoshop by joining two photos to create the perfect composite landscape! Chad Neuman shows you how. 
Related Reading: Here's another Photoshop compositing tutorial.
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Scanning Around With Gene: Vacationland USA
Gene Gable has found travel posters from the days when these graphic design gems were a much more common sight, and vacations usually involved a destination other than the home. 
Related Reading: How about a vacation in Paradise? |
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Kerning: A Master Class
James Felici delivers five tips from the trenches for the devotee of hand-kerning. Take this advice and your visually harmonious page will please the designer's eyes and be easier for the reader to comprehend. 
Related Reading: To brush up on kerning basics before diving into the deep end, read this tutorial. |
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Turn a Photo into a Painting in Illustrator
Sharon Steuer walks you through the process of creating an illustration using a composite photo as a guide. 
Related Reading: Are you a little intimidated by Illustrator? Read this and Zen into the experience. |
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News From The Past Week |
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>> Three New Olympus PEN Cameras
>> Screenprinted Meta-Poster Tells You How to Screenprint a Poster
>> Google Improves Its Web Fonts Interface
>> Add Tracking and Commenting Tools to InDesign with New Plug-In
>> Ben Long Teaches You Black and White Photography
>> Google's Swiffy Turns Flash SWF to HTML5
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Cool Stuff! |
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So Many Possibilities. This 192-page Moleskine notebook is perfect for sketching out print and web layouts. But if that feels too much like work, use the notebook's grid to make geometric doodles or pen notes to friends who appreciate order.
Try it for yourself.
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Wacky Web Site of the Week |
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This site "explores the intersection of art, design, and physical craft," except when it doesn't.
www.creativepro.com/article/creativeprose-wacky-web-site-week-archive |
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