May, 2015 | CreativePro Network

Tip of the Week: Setting How to See and Edit Overset Text

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Hermann Zapf Sketchbook Kickstarter Project

I’ve been known to fall down the rabbit hole of Kickstarter projects, and this past week I chased many a white rabbit. This time, however, I climbed back out not with a strange feeling from drinking out of bottles labeled “DRINK ME,” but with a rare gem. I stumbled upon the Hermann Zapf Sketchbook Project. […]

Skip to the Leading, My Bonny Loose

I cut my teeth on desktop publishing: QuarkXPress 1.0, PageMaker 1.0… anyone remember Ready, Set, Go? But I was baffled when I recently opened InDesign after several months of not touching it. While delighted with its new performance and new EPUB features (which have made it far simpler than even a year ago to produce […]

Free lynda.com Video: Folding Families

Did you ever want to produce a folded print project, but you’re the type of person who could barely fold a road map properly (back in the days before mapping apps and GPS)? Well, you can make amazing folded work, even if you’ve got ten thumbs. Just start by checking out the free video on […]

Text Editing Efficiencies – Part 1

Normally when I’m teaching the InCopy workflow to a new group of users, I focus on the overall workflow as well has the features and functionality that InCopy provides to make the job of design and editorial easier. I assume that the users are already efficient computer users and breeze over a lot of the […]

Understanding Liquid Layouts – Part Three

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a 4-part series on using Alternate Layouts and Liquid Page Rules. Read the other articles here: Part One Part Two Part Four In Parts One and Two of Understanding InDesign’s Liquid Layouts, I discussed the first couple (and simplest) Liquid Page Rules. If you haven’t yet read those, […]

The Incredible Shrinking Italic Small Caps

When everything in a project proceeds according to plan, that’s great. It’s business-as-usual and all’s right with the world. But once in a while something doesn’t go according to plan, and that’s when knowing what’s happening under the hood can help you out. Here’s a little gotcha I came across on a current project. The typeface I […]

Keys to Creative Flow, Part 1

Do you ever get stuck? Feel like your creative taps are rusted shut? Well, never fear, help is at hand! Today marks the start of a three-part series in which I share my favorite tricks for getting back into flow. Enjoy! -Melissa You’ve worked hard to build up a creative business. You’re proud of the work […]