February, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Podcast 241

• Interview with Justin Seeley, Adobe genius and Star Wars nerd
• Fascinating fresh features for footnotes, finally!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Inline Background Color

Tip of the Week: The Friendly Alien Easter Egg

Update: This feature seems to be defunct. We’ll leave the post up to honor the original programmers’ creativity and spirit of fun. Back in the day, just about every major desktop publishing and design program had a few little secret goodies (a.k.a. “Easter eggs”) that you could demonstrate to your friends and co-workers to prove […]

This Month in InDesign Articles, February 2017

It’s snowing here, near Seattle. And I’m reading about the high heat in the Southern Hemisphere. And an old vocal warmup from my early theater days comes to mind: “Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot, we’ll be together whatever the weather… whether we like it or not!” It reminds me that […]

Special Characters

Nigel French weighs in on how to locate those hidden gems on the Glyphs panel—and when to use them. “Give me 26 soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.” It’s an oft-repeated quote about the power of the printed word. Some attribute it to Benjamin Franklin, others to Karl Marx. Regardless of who […]

How to Straighten an Image in Photoshop

Since I can remember, I’ve been told I was a little off-kilter. Whether or not that’s true about me, it is an issue with several of the photos I take. I’m not alone, as many of the photos I receive for projects are as tilted as Italy’s iconic tower. Photoshop gives us a couple of […]

Free Lynda.com Video: Adobe CC Libraries for Designers

If you’re a Creative Cloud subscriber and you haven’t tried CC Libraries yet, you really should at least kick the tires and see how they could fit into your workflow. But to get the best results, before you go diving in, check out Justin Seeley’s Lynda.com course, Adobe CC Libraries for Designers. Here’s the official […]

Free Lynda.com Video: Learning Print Production

New video course shows how to master Adobe’s Publish Online service.

Where are the Page Up and Page Down Keys on my Laptop?

I haven’t had a desktop computer in years—just laptops! And I’m a Mac guy (proud, since 1984). But there’s a problem with Mac laptop keyboards that drives a lot of people crazy, and I want to explain how it works. Specifically, the Mac laptop keyboard seems to be missing a bunch of keys that I, […]

Using Color Fonts in Photoshop with Fontself

Color fonts have been touted as the Next Big Thing. They aren’t universally accepted just yet, but for you early adopters, here’s a great way to build custom fonts directly inside Photoshop. In a previous article we looked at Fontself, the revolutionary plug-in that allows users to create fonts in Adobe Illustrator. Now Fontself has […]