May, 2015 | CreativePro Network

New Contest! The Mystery of the Missing Frames

Every InDesign user knows that part of the job is figuring out what you’re seeing on screen — but sometimes it’s a matter of figuring out what you know is there but that you don’t see on screen! So for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest, here’s one of my favorite “what you see is not what […]

Tip of the Week: Setting Font Preview Size

This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on May 14, 2015. 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 […]

Albert Einstein Font on Kickstarter

Kickstarter, like other successful crowdsourcing sites, is a weird and wonderful place. I find myself wanting to back projects for wacky inventions and gadgets that fill a need I didn’t even know I had. However, it’s also a great place to find cool things that fit in your everyday life, whether personal or professional. The […]

TypeTalk: The 10 Commandments of Email Etiquette

Gone are the days when we relied upon the telephone and the mail service for most communications. Today’s digital world relies heavily on email to make things happen in the world of business and commerce. There are many unspoken guidelines for email communications that are not only smart practices, but good manners as well. Here […]

Finding Type on a Path

When you’re exporting a layout to reflowable EPUB, InDesign will warn you if the content includes things that cannot be represented with CSS, and therefore won’t appear the same—or at all—in the EPUB unless you convert them to images with Object Export Options. For example, type on a path will be entirely left out of a […]

Social Media Guide For Graphic Designers

As Creative Professionals we can’t ignore the value of Social Media and what it can offer us, not in only in terms of promoting ourselves, but also for building relationships. Many Creatives are still intimidated by Social Media and don’t know what platforms they should use, or how to leverage them effectively. In this article […]

Free lynda.com Video: Creating an Image Sandwich

Hungry for another great InDesign tip? How about an image sandwich? You know the effect, you’ve seen it a million times on magazine covers. It’s where some sharp vector text looks like it’s sitting between the subject and the background of an image. And in the latest InDesignSecrets video at lynda.com, David Blatner shows you the best […]

Understanding Liquid Layouts – Part Two

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 Three Part Four Last week, we looked at InDesign’s Liquid Layout Rules in a general sense and explored the tools we need to master to work with them. This […]

Creating Dropwords with InDesign

One of the top wishlist items for InDesign has long been “drop words,” which is a feature required for Hebrew typesetting. (I’ve never heard of it used in other typesetting, but if you use it for something else, leave a comment below.) A “dropword” is like a drop cap, but instead of making one or […]