May, 2013 | CreativePro Network

Free For All: Free Fonts and Photography Goodies

Get in shape for summer with Lightroom presets, Photoshop actions, fonts, vector animal silhouettes, and printable paper templates—all free, of course. Summer Light and Color Presets for Lightroom Evoke the feelings of summer in your photographs with these free Lightroom presets. Summer Light and Color Actions for Photoshop Not a Lightroom fan? These free Photoshop […]

How to Be a Better Designer

This article was originally published in InDesign Magazine issue 53 (April-May 2013). Subscribe now! At PepCon this year I was honored to give two presentations, both on the topic of How To Be a Better Designer. This article summarizes the first of those presentations. But before I start dispensing the advice, a question, an answer, […]

Mount July Camera Filters Take the Instagram Look to the Next Level (and into Real Life)

When digital designs imitate real life we sometimes label it “skeuomorphism,” but what do you call it when real-life objects are inspired by a digital aesthetic like the Instagram look? How about “awesome”? At least that seems to be the verdict on Kickstarter, as a project to create a line of color-splashed camera filters called […]

Free Emigre Type Specimen Catalogs

Emigre’s type specimen catalogs are known for their beautiful looks and deep dives into the technical details of typeface design. You can grab a printed copy of the most recent catalog for a mere $3 (and they’ll throw in the next one for free). But if you’re more of the instant gratification, gimme-everything-you’ve-got-right-now kind of […]

Adobe InDesign CC: First Look

With all the hoopla and ensuing controversy surrounding Adobe’s Creative Cloud announcements last week, is it possible that the new versions of the most powerful creative apps on the planet are being a tad overlooked? In any other circumstances, all the talk would be about Photoshop’s Camera Shake Reduction filter, Illustrator’s Touch Type tool, and […]

Self-Promotion Freebies from HOW

Looking for some cool ideas for projects to show off your design skills and in nab some new clients? HOW magazine is offering a free PDF excerpt from Damn Good: Top Designers Discuss Their All-Time Favorite Projects. The PDF offers 5 Top Self-Promotion Graphic Design Ideas to help you get noticed. In the PDF […]

10 Essential Tips for Working with Video

Everyone likes a good movie, so grab your popcorn and munch on some of these tips and tricks for working with video in InDesign, Acorbat, and Adobe Media Encoder. 1. The best file formats to use for video are H.264-encoded files (MP4 and Mv4) because they’re fully supported within InDesign and Apple’s iOS devices, so […]