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Written by Terri Stone on July 14, 2008
Please tell us what draws you to visit the site. Is it the daily and weekly newsletters? Or do you just drop by at random times?
Once you're here, do you focus on specific topics, or do you look for the latest from particular authors?
And finally, where else do you go for information and inspiration? Blogs, print publications, organizations like AIGA?
I know you're busy, so I really appreciate you taking a few minutes to jot down your thoughts. I can't wait to get to know you better!
Terri Stone
Editor in chief
tstone@creativepro.com
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Staying Current
I subscribe to the daily and if I see either a how-to topic I'm interested in, or news about new software, hardware, photography equipment or printer that matters to me, I check it out. I'm often too busy to do this on a daily basis, but I'll let your emails stack up in my Inbox until I have time to look them over, and I DO read each one. Incidentally, I really like the new site design.
Why Creative Pro
The users tips - the interesting articles - keeps me in touch with what is happening in the Photographic and Design world. Following some articles I have bought recommended books to read in depth on the subject.
I like to read the daily newsletter each day if I can.
Why do I come to Creative Pro?
Several years ago I stumbled across Creative Pro and signed up for the newsletters. I am a daily guy!. Your part of my every day experience. When I set down at the computer every day with my coffee I click the icon for my email and open Creative Pro.
I get to see tutorials, things that are new in the industry and who is doing what! I have had every version of Photoshop since version 3 and now CS3. My wife calls Photoshop my lover.
I am trying to learn In Design and have every issue of the magazine since you started it.
I've won a couple of plug-in prizes. Great education!. What's not to love about Creative Pro?
My number with NAPP membership is 2700 and continue with this great organization to
this day. I have great respect for Scott Kelby, a 24hr a day private tutor who answers every question I ask without cost, a fantastic magazine and if I had the warewithall I would go to every meeting I could find time for.
And like many things in life I discovered Creative Pro and NAPP to late in life. I thank God for the both of you and for my wonderful wife. Truly for me life is GOOD
Harry
I've been using Photoshop
I've been using Photoshop for years and have just been sucked in by illustrator. I come to Creative pro for tips and info that'll stop me ejecting my computer out of the window in frustration. Looking at other info on applications i don't have is also helpful as i've decided to take the whole design thing seriously and go to college in semptember where i'll be using software i'm not familiar with.
Trouble is I spend more time looking in Creative pro than designing anything.Looking forward to college and throwing their computers out of the window instead of mine. Calum x
Gene and How-Tos and ,,,
Hi!
I am from Finland, and my English is not good (it is poor), I hope You can read this. I am trying to learn something of Photoshop, InDesign ana Illustrator and I am doing it by myself. The How-Tos here are very good, a little bit difficult to me for my bad English, but anyway, I have found Creative Pro good and interesting in many ways. For instance, Gene Gable and his stories are my favorites, and the great pictures in them.
All the best,
Hannu
The weekly newsletters bring
The weekly newsletters bring me to your site-if I see an article of interest mentioned in the weekly newsletter, I click over to your site to read the article/content. I also like reading Gene's musings on different topics/retro graphics. Although I do like the new layout style for browsing, it presently still stinks for printing (even after you had said that it would be fixed quickly after the non-yellow site style went live), as I sometimes like to keep an article/how-to around for reference.
For information, inspiration, and how to's, I visit blogs found using Google (or via other blogs). I know of few people who read "print" publications these days, as the printed information is typically stale by the time it goes to print (even though I _do_ miss frequently picking up a dead tree to read it and sometimes miss the ink getting on my fingers). That said, fewer clients even ask for printed materials these days-and your coverage could reflect this a bit more than it presently does (even knowing that the site is owned by a printing company these days).
And since the "main" software packages, e.g. QuarkXPress and the "design" lines of Adobe CS3 are fairly mature in their product-life-cycles, why not cover some more of the lessor-known to many (but important) tools such as Flash, Flexbuilder, AIR, Silverlight, The Gimp, Expression Studio, Sketchup, Bryce, Painter, Hexagon, Carrerra, Inkscape, Corel Draw, Maya, Strata, Canvas, Premier, Poser, Blender, Rhinoceros, DemoShield, CamStudio, Audacity, and so on while also covering the "ancient-history-based fun & frustration" of non-software tools including rapidiograph pens, waxers, amberlith/rubylith, french-curves, X-Acto knives, mechanicals, darkroom techniques, stinky/headrush-inducing markers/solvents, paint, "non-repro blue" pencils, and 3/4 U-Matic video tapes/reel-to-reel audio tape (to name but a few things) for those who would like to know how it "was" at one time/decades ago before software could do all of this for us?
Another vote for how-to's
I drop by once in a while as I have bookmarked the site, and when deadlines are tight I rely on the newsletters. I used to closely follow articles by Eric J. Adams for points to take note of on the business side of creative services... no recent articles from him now, though. Still, there are lots of other references that prove wonderfully insightful, particularly those on new tricks that can be done with cameras and familiar software, updates on tools and printing, and refresher pieces on design.
Gene Gable and "How to"
I always love Gene Gable. I read the how to stuff. I like the Get Creative video. Keeps me up and connects me, esp important for freelancers.
My link to the industry
I've been visiting CreativePro.com for 8 years now, and the content and usefulness of the site has just grown and grown! I started visiting for the tutorials, and I stay because it's a major connection to my industry. I love the giveaways, peeks and reviews of new products, and Scanning Around with Gene is always an adventure.
Creativepro.com was with me as a newbie to the industry, and stayed with me as I moved to freelancing and finally, a design group of my own. I LOVE you guys!
Miko Radcliffe
Drawing A Crowd
Gene Gable is the man
Enough said. ;-) I also enjoy Ben Long & Irene Strizver in particular, and I value the news releases featured in daily mails.
J.
You asked
I am not a graphics professional but I am always looking for good how to articles for Adobe CS2 (can't afford the upgrade) I most like the tutorials and would love to see more of them. Particularly would appreciate knowing what tutes would work with older versions of software.
I come for the "how to's" in
I come for the "how to's" in graphics and print, there is so much to learn even after being formally trained. I've just puchased my first SLR camera so now I wlll be coming for photography as well. I love the video cast. The tips and tricks are wonderful and easy to learn in a quick moment of downtime. (which I rarely have)
keep up the great work!
Jennifer Harris
keylimecreative.ca
Dear (and I do mean Dear) CreativePro
Dear Creative Pro,
I inheirited the editorship of a small but well-respected magazine and layout was part of my duties. Having had no formal training in magazine layout I can truely say that I have experienced terror in the form of 48 blank pages.
I was "saved" by this website! I have learned so much from your "how to" articles and from books I have "discovered" from your reviews. I come to CreativePro.com daily for instruction and inspiration. You are my electronic guru.
Steve Ruis
Archery Focus magazine
PS I know you got started with this site because of the problems you, as printers, encountered from clueless clients. I am still somewhat clueless but, according to my printer, very easy to work with. So, you are fulfilling your original intent.