June, 2012 | CreativePro Network

InDesign CS6 Trials and Tribulations with Licensing

Why can’t Adobe Application Manager remember that I have a Creative Cloud license?

one2edit Enables Web-based Publishing Workflows

Do you use InDesign to produce brochures, books, flyers, catalogs, packaging, or ads? Do you work with a team whose members are distributed over long distance in multiple locations? Ever wish you could streamline your editorial, translation, or print production workflows? Then you should definitely check out a product called one2edit. With one2edit, marketing, creative, […]

Scanning Around With Gene: When Men Looked Sharp

Maybe it’s because I’ve always worked in California, but I’ve never really had to dress up for work. Sure, even today I wear a sport coat with my blue jeans to casual Friday’s, and for a while I wore a tie to work. And I do dust off my tuxedo every now and then for […]

Getting to Know (and Master) Master Pages in InDesign

It’s safe to say that if you create InDesign documents longer than, say, two pages, you should be using master pages. They allow you to lay out a design for each page type once and re-use it as many times as you need, with no extra effort. And when changes are needed, you make them […]

Reimagine Your Portfolio with Iconify

What do you do when you’re dissatisfied with the state of your creative tools? If you’re like Doug Logue and Bronson Taylor, two creative pros who were fed up with the options for displaying their portfolios, you create your own new tools. The result is a project called Iconify, that aims to provide creatives with […]

Lightroom 4 Added to Creative Cloud

Photographers now have one more reason to consider joining Adobe’s Creative Cloud, with the announcement that Lightroom 4 is now officially one of the application offerings. For $49 per month, subscribers to the Creative Cloud get a range of services including 20 GB of online storage, Typekit web fonts, plus access to the following applications: […]

TypeTalk: Type Tips for Letterpress Printing

The richness, depth and texture of a letterpress-printed piece is an exquisite thing to behold. You can’t help but run your fingers over the blending of type, image, ink, and paper while admiring the sensual beauty of this relief process. While letterpress has long historical roots, it’s still available to us today. However, it requires […]

Meet Brackets, Adobe’s New Open Source HTML Editor

Adobe has released an early beta version of a free, open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It’s called Brackets and it promises to provide some unique benefits for web designers and developers. First of all, it has an innovative simplified user interface. Brackets doesn’t come cluttered with many […]

How to Add a Border to an Image in Illustrator

Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com. “It’s sooo simple…once you know the trick.” How many times have you heard (or said that) regarding some strange, quirky obstacle that stood in the way of you getting your work done? All applications can act a little weird at times, when they refuse to perform a seemingly simple […]