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Know Your Photoshop File Sizes — CreativePro.com article

How can one Photoshop image grow and shrink dramatically during production, even without compression? And why does Photoshop sometimes show you multiple file sizes for the same photo? In an article I wrote for CreativePro.com, I help you understand the many factors that affect the file size numbers you see both inside Photoshop and on the desktop. And the answers could save you a lot of storage space on your hard drive or in the cloud.

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Know Your Photoshop File Sizes

Know Your Photoshop File Sizes on CreativePro.com

Read my Lightroom Mobile review on CreativePro.com

The debut of Lightroom Mobile on the iPad naturally brings high expectations: Can this new app help a tablet replace a laptop in a raw photo workflow, and how well do photographers’ favorite features of the desktop version of Lightroom translate to the Apple iPad? If you want to know what I think, you can now read my review of Lightroom Mobile, published on CreativePro.com.

Lightroom Mobile

Create photo layouts faster with my article in the Photography Issue of InDesign Magazine

InDesign Magazine, Issue 57: The Photography Issue

Want to create photo layouts faster? I just wrote an article, “Import More Images in Less Time,” for the Photography Issue of InDesign Magazine (December/January 2014). If you use Adobe InDesign to create photo-intensive publications like catalogs, yearbooks, or magazines, you already know that it takes too long to import images one at a time using the Place command. But what are the faster alternatives that can save you hours of time? In this article I tell you about several ways to quickly import and place multiple images in a single pass using InDesign.

Click the link below to read the article (co-authored with Bart Van de Wiele) at InDesign Magazine:
InDesign Magazine, Issue 57: The Photography Issue

The article is part of an issue of InDesign Magazine that’s available for purchase as a single issue or as part of a subscription. InDesign Magazine is a bimonthly periodical devoted entirely to Adobe InDesign and to the thriving community of InDesign professionals. With editorial direction by page-layout guru and author David Blatner and CreativePro.com editor in chief Mike Rankin, InDesign Magazine brings you the in-depth features, reviews, and tutorials you need to master Adobe InDesign. You can download a free trial issue.

Make the Most of Your Domain Name — CreativePro.com article

Example of using subdomains

When you get a domain name for your website, think bigger than just your website. Your creative business is likely to expand its online presence with accounts on services such as blogging, portfolio, and e-commerce sites, which typically offer the option of associating a custom domain name with your account. That’s an opportunity for you to use your domain name in ways that can reinforce your brand online. In my latest article for CreativePro.com, I suggest how to take advantage of those opportunities with three quick tips.

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Creative Business: Make the Most of Your Domain Name

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