February, 2013 | CreativePro Network

InDesign User Group Site is Up and Running

The InDesign User Group web site is back up and running, with just a few minor glitches.

Super Simple Swatch Creation from Hailpixel

For a new and easy way to experiment with color and generate swatches, check out color.hailpixel.com. It’s a nifty little project created by Devin Hunt, a London-based designer, developer, and entrepreneur. To use the tool, you simply move your cursor around inside the browser window to adjust hue, saturation, and brightness. The hexadecimal code is […]

50 Well-Designed Infographics About Design (Part 2)

Continuing from last week’s Part 1, here are another roughly 6,000 words of design facts, figures, and information contained, Tardis-like, in an article of only 600 words. In other words, this article is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Alas, it’s still too small to contain all the well-designed infographics I […]

Modeling a 3D Bracelet with Photoshop

Photoshop’s 3D modelling environment has matured to the stage that with CS6 Extended, it’s capable of building realistic and persuasive images from scratch. I used it to model a proposal for a Bluetooth bracelet, for the inventors’ website Quirky. In order to look its best, the bracelet had to be shown not only lying flat […]

Design-Geeking Out on the Oscars

The Academy Awards are coming up in little more than a week, and many film fans are making predictions, planning parties, and catching up with the contending films they missed last year. But if you’re a true design geek, there are other ways to get ready for the Oscars. Check out (and be amazed by) […]

Free Video on the Useful but Slightly Mysterious Content Collector Tools

Anne-Marie’s free video on using sets with the Content Collector reveals some tricks to get the most out of this new, slightly confusing, but otherwise highly useful CS6 feature.

Daily Dishonesty

If you’re a fan of clever hand-lettered typography, check out a blog called Daily Dishonesty by Lauren Hom, a graphic designer and illustrator based in New York City. The blog features several humorous hand-lettered illustrations of the little lies we all tell ourselves when our best intentions don’t exactly match up to our actual behavior. […]

Breaking The Rules of Typography

Excerpted from InDesign Magazine, December 2012/January 2013 (issue 51). 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. In 2006, Paul Felton […]

Adobe LeanPrint Offers to Reduce Your Print Costs

Do you suffer from print guilt? You know, that feeling that you really shouldn’t waste resources like paper and ink or toner, but you still feel compelled to make hard copies of certain work or information. Or did you ever feel like certain applications are optimized to waste as much paper and toner as possible, […]