July, 2012 | CreativePro Network

Make Your Photos “Way Cooler”

Artist Alex Pardee and developer 99centbrains have teamed up to create a hilariously creepy new app from playing with your photos. It’s called WayCooler and it’s available for both iPhone and iPad. In the app, you select one of your photos and then reach into a cooler to select from a variety of crazy cartoon […]

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• Some useful new ideas for Cool Keyboard Shortcuts
• New features in InDesign CS6 for EPUB publishers
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This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 91

Looking for cool links about InDesign during this hot summer? You’ve come to the right place!

Meet Adobe’s New Exchange

Adobe has created a new way to discover and install extensions to Creative Suite applications, directly from a panel within those applications. Once installed, the new Adobe Exchange panel allows users to browse through available items for CS6 applications, download and install items, and also update items later on when new versions become available. The […]

InDesign How to: Using Liquid Layout

Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, April/May 2012 (issue 47). Subscribe now! In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the magazine. This PDF is best viewed in Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader. Any time a feature is […]

Type Posters, Prints, and Notecards

You don’t have to be a full-on type nerd to appreciate the artwork for sale at studiotwentysix2, but if you are a glyph junkie, these beautiful and clever designs may be destined to end up on your walls. When the standard letter forms just won’t do, you can always reach for the Can o’ Dingbats. […]

Scanning Around With Gene: Yosemite, Kodachrome, and Curt Teich

Today’s column incorporates a number of my favorite things. First, there’s Yosemite, the great National Park in California that pretty much defines the term “stunning landscape.” Then there’s Curt Teich, the long-time Chicago printer responsible for so many post cards and promotional images of places near and far. And then there’s Kodachrome, the film emulsion […]