February, 2014 | CreativePro Network

Sort an Index by Page Number

What if you use the index feature but need the result in page number order instead of alphabetical order? The easiest way to make this kind of list is probably to use the Table of Contents feature instead of the index feature. (Inside the Table of Contents dialog box, there is a checkbox labeled Sort […]

Image Editing in Lightroom 5: Correcting Overexposed and Underexposed Images

The following is an excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening. Correcting an Overexposed Image Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has the ability to reveal highlight detail that might otherwise be hidden. You can often recover seemingly lost highlight information by combining a negative Exposure adjustment with the use of the Highlights […]

Pantone View Colour Planner Autumn/Winter 2015/2016

Press Release CARLSTADT, N.J., Feb. 18, 2014 – Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today introduced Engage, the Autumn/Winter 2015/2016 edition of PANTONE® VIEW Colour Planner. Looking at color as a total language, this multi-platform forecast offers seasonal inspiration, key color direction and suggested color harmonies for women’s […]

Speeding up InDesign: A Chart of Ideas

Haeme Ulrich, Swiss InDesign and DPS expert and trainer, runs a great blog (if you speak German). He came up with a cool chart of ideas to speed up InDesign. After all, who doesn’t want to make InDesign faster and more efficient?! He translated it into English for us here: You can download it by […]

25 Type Tips

Reprinted from InDesign Magazine Issue 56: October/November 2013 Join InDesign Secrets Now and get InDesign Magazine! InDesign is a type workhorse, giving you a wide range of options for automating, styling, and making type do your bidding. Whether you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned pro, the options might seem overwhelming, or somehow be […]

The CreativePro Weekly Top 10, vol. 3

More marvelous miscellanea for you to contemplate and click. 1. Being sensitive to the qualities of visual design is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you get to appreciate things like well-ordered grids, fine typography, and great use of line and color. The downside is that a poorly-kerned license plate might make you want to […]

The History of Olympic Poster Design

The Olympic games in Sochi are winding down, but if you want to keep the flame burning a little longer, check out the huge collection of gorgeous Olympic posters at colorlib.com. The 87 posters on display deliver a wonderfully satisfying history of Olympic designs from 1896 to the present. It’s all there. Everything from swoopy Art […]

DPS Pullout Tabs tip

A common interactive feature in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) apps is “pullout tabs”. These are created using InDesign’s Edit > Paste Into command and the DPS Scrollable Frame Overlay feature. Full instructions for creating the tabs can be found here. These pullout tabs can be used for a number of interesting and useful interactive […]

Convert InDesign to Word, PowerPoint, and Keynote With ID2Office v2.0

Press Release Osaka, Japan, February 20, 2014 Recosoft Corporation the developers of PDF2Office®, the PDF conversion solution for Office, OmniGraffle and Apple iWork; creators of PDF2ID®, the PDF-to-InDesign plug-in; and PDF to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, JPEG converters for the iOS has started shipping ID2Office v2.0. ID2Office v2.0 is the newest version of the only InDesign to Word and PowerPoint conversion and […]