If you’re a seasoned InCopy user, this headline probably grabbed your attention. Don’t worry, it’s not a mean trick that I’m pulling on all of our readers! Seasoned users and beginners alike ask me all the time, why InCopy doesn’t have sticky notes like we have in Adobe Acrobat or even Adobe Photoshop for that […]
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The game of internet vulnerability-security leapfrog continues, this time involving Adobe’s Flash multimedia player. A flaw in Flash that recently came to light could allow potential hackers to exploit the software to steal login credentials on some websites. The potentially vulnerable sites—including popular social media sites like Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter—have worked to put new […]
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This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on July 10, 2014. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets and CreativePro, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll all the […]
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In photography, blurring the background helps draw attention to the subject of the photo. It’s not hard to do with a digital SLR camera because of the digital sensor’s or film frame’s size (also called the format), but what if all you have is the small-format digital camera in your pocket? You can blur the […]
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In the latest episode of InDesign Secrets on lynda.com, you can learn how to achieve some cool text effects by rotating text and text frames independently. David Blatner shows how to get different results by using different tools. You can keep your text horizontal, and rotate the frame to a different angle. Or keep the frame level, […]
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by Erica Gamet If you use GREP in InDesign, you either know the name Peter Kahrel or you should. He literally wrote the book on using GREP specifically in InDesign. I had the pleasure of meeting him in person at this year’s PePcon (in my GREP session, so no pressure there). He let me in on a little addition to InDesign’s […]
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Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers now have access to the Creative Cloud Market—a repository of royalty-free assets for use in their creative projects. To access the marketplace, make sure you have the most recent update to Creative Cloud 2014 and navigate to the Assets tab from within the Creative Cloud application. Assets include vector graphics, patterns, […]
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Next to fonts, colors are probably the most important aspect of InDe-Illu-Shop work. But there are so many mysteries about color and the programs almost handle colors similarly—except when they don’t. Here is a look at where the programs work perfectly together, and where differ. Syncing Color Settings When Adobe joined its programs into a […]
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Renowned type company Monotype has acquired the font portal FontShop, including its US and European offices, and FontShop AG, the company’s German distributor. In addition, the purchase includes the FontFont library of Erik Spiekermann, FontFont’s co-founder and well-known type designer. Monotype’s president and CEO, Doug Shaw, and Spiekermann both point to the synergistic blending of […]
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