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Editor's Corner: Change Is Coming

Why is it easier to make big changes at the beginning of the year? Besides the days growing longer, January isn't really that different from December. And yet it feels like a clean slate, an opportunity to improve yourself.

In 2008, creativepro.com is taking advantage of that new-year momentum to unveil a redesign we've been working on for months. With the new structure, it will be much easier to find articles and other resources, and much simpler to interact with creativepro.com authors and other site members. There will be more goodies, too, but we'll reveal those closer to the site's debut in mid-January.

While we'll be smoothing out new-site wrinkles for the rest of December, this is the last weekly creativeprose newsletter you'll receive in 2007. I hope that the year ends well for you. I'll talk to you again on January 2!

— Terri Stone, editor in chief

Creativepro.com Book of the Week: Your 2007 Top Choices The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis http://www.creativepro.com/cprose/8-51bookoweek

New to Flash?

In this how-to, Jen deHaan explains how easy it can be to build a banner in Adobe Flash. In parts two and three of this series (on creativepro.com in January), you'll add an animation, create a button that opens a browser window, and add the banner to a web page.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/26211.html

For more Flash info, we recommend this:
http://www.amazon.com/ASIN/0321509838/creativepro

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Control = Creativity

In his book Time Management for Creative People, Mark McGuinness goes into the theory and practice of maintaining your creative focus under pressure, and of managing the information flooding in on us all. You can download the entire 32-page book at the link below.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/26196.html

Managing your own time is good. But what about managing other people's time?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/22396.html

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Get Light Right for the Best Photos

Photographer and Photoshop master Kevin Ames shows you how to work with light to produce great images within and without Photoshop.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/26202.html

This is a favorite article on night lighting:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/22976.html

Creativepro.com Portfolio Showcase Want to start promoting yourself with a free portfolio on Portfolios.com? Sign up for a FREE Basic portfolio today! http://www.creativepro.com/eservices/portfolios

Get Creative Video for the Week of December 17

Shellie Hall fills you in on free software (including a personal database tailor-made for those of you who're into organization), a great deal on Photoshop plug-ins, and five Web sites that are not only cool, they're free and useful tools.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/26216.html

The Get Creative library doesn't require you to read:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/26071.html

Creativepro.com Stock Photo Search Win an iPhone. Find the featured image and enter to win an iPhone. http://www.creativepro.com/eservices/imagegrabber

Harness the Power of PNGs

For many Web uses, the PNG image file format can beat the pants off of GIF and JPEG. In the first installment of the new column View Source, Dave McFarland shows you when PNG is your best bet and how to use it.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25593.html

Although there are many ways to build Web sites, Dreamweaver is one of the most common. If you're considering an upgrade to Dreamweaver CS3, read this:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/review/25427.html

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News from the Past Week

Is "Blue Iris" your color?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/26210.html

InfoTrends study shows significant changes in Professional photography workflows as image capture volumes increase
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/26192.html

Markzware announces FlightCheck Professional v6.10 upgrade
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/26195.html

Quark releases free book on using QuarkXPress 7 with Adobe Creative Suite 3
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/26204.html

Do you need a PDF-to-InDesign Conversion Tool?
http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/26209.html

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Wacky Web Site of the Week
Need some business card design ideas? These are some doozies!
http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23661.html

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Knot a Quilt: Just like Grandma used to make. [wink]

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