http://images.creativepro.com Where Creatives Go to Know en http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-share-and-share-alike-from-photoshop-to-illustrator-part-3- With the introduction of Adobe Creative Suite, you can easily move artwork from Photoshop into Illustrator -- and continue to edit it in the illustration application. Here's how to transfer Photoshop art into Illustrator along with how to find everything once it's there.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-share-and-share-alike-from-photoshop-to-illustrator-part-3-">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-the-legacy-of-illustrator Adobe Illustrator CS includes a much-improved text engine and a pared-down Save menu -- both of which may puzzle you when trying to open a legacy document or save to an older version of Illustrator. Here's how to overcome Adobe's changes to these fundamental actions.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-the-legacy-of-illustrator">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-packing-up-indesign-layouts-for-golive-pages With the Creative Suite, Adobe application integration has never been tighter, especially between InDesign CS and GoLive CS. See how you can turn an InDesign layout into a GoLive Web site in a few steps.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-packing-up-indesign-layouts-for-golive-pages">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-golive-cs-goes-for-broke Adobe's Web design application gets its share of new features as part of the Adobe Creative Suite but does it have what it takes to go up against the favored Macromedia Dreamweaver?<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-golive-cs-goes-for-broke">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/creative-gifts-for-creative-people-the-2003-holiday-gift-guide- Looking for imaginative gift ideas for the creative professional on your list? Creativepro.com's editors are here to help, with creative suggestions for all.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/creative-gifts-for-creative-people-the-2003-holiday-gift-guide-">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-macromedia-studio-mx-2004-reviewed The awkwardly named product suite favored for interactive and Web design receives a number of improvements, including better CSS support. But is the sum of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand better than its parts?<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-macromedia-studio-mx-2004-reviewed">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-freehand-mx-integrates-and-innovates Macromedia gives its venerable illustration software FreeHand an MX makeover -- a unified user interface, tighter integration with other MX products, and some interesting new features. Do they add up to make FreeHand MX a worthwhile upgrade? <p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-freehand-mx-integrates-and-innovates">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-share-and-share-alike-twixt-illustrator-to-photoshop-part-2- Illustrator and Photoshop are like characters in a digital Patty Duke show: They act alike, but they're different as night and day. Still, these cousins are quite a pair that work together seamlessly. In this sequel to an earlier story, learn how to transfer compound shapes and image maps from Illustrator into Photoshop.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-share-and-share-alike-twixt-illustrator-to-photoshop-part-2-">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/2002-the-creative-year-in-review What kind of year was 2002 for creative professionals? The staff and contributors of creativepro.com reflect on the year that's been and the year that's about to be.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/2002-the-creative-year-in-review">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-surprisingly-agile-photoshop-elements Adobe updates Photoshop Elements, its highly accessible, more affordable, only slightly limited version of Photoshop. With most of the same features as Photoshop and a list price of $99, what's not to like?<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-surprisingly-agile-photoshop-elements">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-share-and-share-alike-with-illustrator-and-photoshop With Illustrator 9, Adobe introduced some remarkable capabilities for exporting vector files to Photoshop -- and brought even more to the table with Illustrator 10. The net result is that not only is it possible to write out individual Illustrator layers to Photoshop layers, but Illustrator text can also be saved as editable Photoshop type layers.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-share-and-share-alike-with-illustrator-and-photoshop">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-for-flash-mx-means-most-excellent Now three versions later, I've taken the new version, Flash MX (6.0), out for a spin, and all I can say is, &quot;You've come a long way, baby.&quot; MX is the surname given to the entire product line recently rolled out by Macromedia. The substance of this upgrade is more than a flashy new moniker.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-for-flash-mx-means-most-excellent">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-is-livemotion-2-0-a-flash-in-the-pan- A couple years back the only true solution designers had for Flash animation (SWF) creation was Macromedia's Flash itself. Many found and still find Flash difficult to master and strange in its manner of going about even the simplest tasks.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-is-livemotion-2-0-a-flash-in-the-pan-">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-upgrade-to-photoshop-7-0- Whenever a new version of Photoshop comes around, I look forward to exploring and uncovering the newly added features and to figuring out how I can exploit them in my day-to-day work. Unfortunately, with the release of Photoshop 7, there's not a lot to write home about.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-upgrade-to-photoshop-7-0-">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-a-first-look-at-golive-6-0 I've been using Adobe GoLive since its first incarnation. In its previous five versions, it's gained powerful, unique features and undergone a couple of name changes.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-a-first-look-at-golive-6-0">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-a-designer-s-reflections-on-the-imac-and-mac-os-x <p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-a-designer-s-reflections-on-the-imac-and-mac-os-x">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/2001-the-creative-year-in-review We asked the writers and pundits who contribute to creativepro.com to review 2001 from the perspective of product releases and news events for creative professionals.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/2001-the-creative-year-in-review">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-illustrator-s-almost-perfect-10- Adobe has released Illustrator 10, which marks Adobe's first product release to offer both Windows XP and OS X compatibility (it also runs on Mac OS 9 and on several flavors of Windows). .... underneath the slick veneer of the interface, Illustrator 10 brings an assortment of new tools and features to foster creative freedom and boost productivity.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-illustrator-s-almost-perfect-10-">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-tween-livemotion-and-illustrator Although Live Motion is easy to use and has an intuitive workflow, it's not without its share of shortcomings. One of these lapses is shape tweening, or the transformation of one shape into another in an animated sequence. But you can easily overcome this limitation by getting some much needed vector help from LiveMotion's big brother, Adobe Illustrator.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-tween-livemotion-and-illustrator">read more</a></p> http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-off-the-beaten-path-with-flash-and-livemotion The shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, but the shortest path is rarely the most interesting. Animating objects along a custom motion path in Flash and LiveMotion is easier than you may think.<p><a href="http://images.creativepro.com/article/the-creative-toolbox-off-the-beaten-path-with-flash-and-livemotion">read more</a></p>