August, 2013 | CreativePro Network

Podcast 198

• Sandee Cohen, our guest star in the studios!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Preserve Local Edits while Updating Object Links

Free Adobe Muse Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet

In a recent update, Adobe added some rather cool enhancements to Muse CC, including persistent navigation (so people can always see where they are in a long page) and improved scroll motion effects. You can see these new features in action at Adobe TV. We’ll be posting some Muse tutorials here at CreativePro in the […]

Explaining InDesign’s Printing and Exporting Page Number Confusion

It used to be so much easier in InDesign to print or export pages. The most complicated thing to figure out was how to print out pages with sections. Now, we also have to figure out how to print out documents with different page sizes. And what about Alternate Layouts? How do we print or […]

Learn Typography in Ten Minutes with Butterick’s Practical Typography

What could you learn in ten minutes? A few Photoshop tips? How to speed read (so you can enjoy lots more CreativePro content in the same amount of time)? How to write your name in Elvish? How about a subject like typography? Do you think you could learn all the important ideas well enough to put […]

iPhotographer Magazine Free Issue

iPhotographer magazine covers world of mobile photography with inspirational images, stories, tips, tutorials, and reviews. And now you can grab a free preview issue of iPhotographer magazine for the iPad in the Apple Newsstand. Single issues cost $3.99, 12-issue annual subscriptions are $18.99 And if you need any more inspiration about your phone’s photographic potential, […]

Review: Suitcase Fusion 5

I first started using Suitcase Fusion when version 3 was released about three years ago. Recently I upgraded to version 5, and found that it offers some interesting new features, while remaining an indispensable part of my digital toolset. I have a license for Adobe’s Font Folio and scores of others, so with more than 6,000 […]

Dude, What’s My Last Page?

You’re creating the annual report, and you think it might be nice to let the readers know just how many more pages of that boring 6-point financial drivel they’re going to have to wade through. So you want to add the total number of pages to the page number in the footer: e.g., Page 1 […]

Album Moxie: The Savvy Photographer’s Guide to Album Design and more—with InDesign

There’s an old saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In this digital age we might update that to say when all you have is Photoshop, everything looks like a PSD. But nowadays our toolboxes are usually overstuffed with digital tools for all kinds of tasks, so it […]

Swiftly Offers Quick Design Fixes for $15

Many professional designers have strong negative opinions about crowdsourcing sites that host competitions in which many people submit work, but only one ends up getting paid. Some feel that the very notion of crowdsourcing undervalues their skills and undermines their ability to make a living. However, the sites themselves appear to be thriving. To date, […]