November, 2010 | CreativePro Network

Webinar: Variables in Adobe Creative Suite 5

Press Release Variable data projects have become increasingly important to marketers in recent years. Designers often create projects, and then hand them off to a mail house who will do the variable “sweetening” with expensive proprietary software. Adobe’s Creative Suite has powerful variable data capabilities built-in, however: Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign all feature variable data […]

Scanning Around With Gene: Tie One On for the Holidays (an Apron, That Is)

Aprons are like umbrellas: you either embrace them or reject them. I fall into the latter category. I’d rather end up with flour on my pants than don and doff an apron — it just seems like too much work. But for as long as people have been cooking, baking, housekeeping, and doing any number […]

Sign & Fill In PDFs On the iPad

Press Release Readdle is pleased to announce the release of PDF Expert for iPad 1.5, the latest version of its cutting edge application for working with PDF documents. The update extends PDF annotation capabilities for the iPad users, adding the ability to sign documents, fill in scanned PDF forms and type text directly onto the […]

Test the Impact of Your Designs More Quickly

Press Release 3M has added automatic face and text detection to its Visual Attention Service, a web-based scanning tool that digitally evaluates the impact of creative and graphic designs. With this latest enhancement, users simply upload images to 3M’s Web portal, and within seconds, the Visual Attention Service (VAS) tool analyzes and reveals the results. […]

iStopMotion 2.5 Adds Tilt Shift Filter

Press Release Boinx Software, a multi-award winning developer of cool software for the Mac platform, today announced the availability of iStopMotion 2.5, the company’s popular stop motion animation application. Headlining the new update is the innovative combination of a brand new Tilt Shift Filter with stop motion animation and time-lapse recording. A popular effect among […]

Beware of local formatting and numbered lists

Using direct formatting with auto-numbered lists can change the appearance of the automatic numerals in some surprising (and obscure) ways. Learn how to avoid this problem here.

This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 46

If I could walk 500 miles, I would be the one who brought these articles to your door…

Got a Hand? Draw a Turkey

Our United States readers are well aware that Thanksgiving is one week away, and you know what that means: Time for Rule 29‘s “third annual hand turkey illustration extravaganza”! That’s a complicated title, but participation is actually simple: 1. Download the template. 2. Embellish the template as you see fit. 3. Upload your creation to […]

"World Without Photoshop" Free for the iPad

Now 20 years old, Adobe Photoshop software has changed image editing forever. Can you imagine a world without Photoshop? Over the next twelve chapters you can see for yourself what some of the best digital artists work looks like without the software. Then with the touch of your finger The World Without Photoshop is transformed […]