May, 2016 | CreativePro Network

Podcast 233

• Making the UI (User Interface) your own
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Keep with Next Row

Tip of the Week: Taking Control of Text Wrap

With this free InDesign script, you can fix problematic text wrap with precision and ease.

What’s the first thing you think about when you see the name QuarkXPress? If you’ve worked in publishing for a very long time, you might think “ground-breaking layout program.” Quark was there at the birth of desktop publishing in the ’80s, and grew to dominate the industry. Or, you might think “ancient history” if you were among […]

Database publishing, a lean approach with Pagination.com

Article presented by If you have dealt with data publishing projects, as I do, you most likely struggled with: preparing the data to get it in the exact, required format figuring how to create a library rich with information and logic merging together multiple batches of documents and their never-ending variations and updates. Maybe that’s […]

Create Patterns With Adobe Capture CC

How do you create beauty? There’s the old fashioned way: First, create the Universe. Fill it with things. Then arrange those things in a pleasing manner with symmetry, repetition, and proportion. Personally, that seems like a lot of work to me. A much easier approach is to download Adobe’s free mobile app, Capture CC. Then use […]

InDesign Basics: Where Is the Color Picker?

Here’s where you can sample colors in InDesign in the same way that Photoshop’s Color Picker works.

Lynda.com video: See Your Document in Grayscale Onscreen

New free video shows how to preview what your InDesign documents will look like when printed on a black and white printer.

This Month in Articles, May 2016

News, tutorials, tips, and more from around the Web for InDesign users.

Meet the Neo SmartPen: A New Way to Draw

As an artist who specializes in combining traditional and digital tools, I’m always in search of a better way to create artwork out in the “real” world that I can later edit and rework on the computer. In a previous CreativePro post I explored vector sketching with the iPad. Although the iPad Pro amps up raster […]