June, 2014 | CreativePro Network

The Creative Commons and the Power of Open

If you’ve ever read Wikipedia or watched a TEDtalk video, you’ve benefited from shared content with a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons, CC for short, has the lofty goal of making “a license for all of us to create a better world.” You can find amazing content—images, video, software, news, stories, databases and whole academic courses—available […]

PePcon Sneak Peek Reveals InDesign’s New Fixed-Layout EPUB Features

At PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference today in Chicago, Adobe Group Product Manager Kitchener gave an exciting and exclusive sneak peek at some of what’s coming soon to InDesign. The highlight of Chris’s demo was the news of “the next stop on InDesign’s EPUB journey,” specifically that a new version of InDesign will export documents to fixed-layout EPUB […]

Illustrator WOW! Techniques: Flexible Shading and Highlighting Effects

Would you like to add richer shading and highlighting effects to your vector artwork in Adobe Illustrator, and be able to quickly edit colors and have all these effects update instantly? I thought so. The process starts with artwork that uses brushed strokes which have been converted to outlines. You then need to select all the […]

InDesign Secrets Video: Ghosting Images Behind Text

When you’re laying out a page, sometimes you have to put text frames on top of images. And if you’re working with a very detailed or multi-colored image, it can be really hard to make the text readable, especially if increasing the point size is not an option. Fortunately, there’s an easy fix: ghosting an area […]

Connect With Us on Google+

Ever notice those subtle but oh-so-clickable social media buttons on the InDesignSecrets home page? You can use the ones on the left side to jump to our Facebook page, Twitter page, and now a refreshed and active Google+ page. Check it out and follow us! So no matter where you hang out online you can […]

4 Causes for Text Wrap Misbehavior in InDesign

Are you having difficulty getting a text wrap around an image to behave properly? When this happens, go through this quick checklist to help identify the problem.

A Script for Counting List Items

Here’s a nifty little script that gives InDesign the ability to find the number of paragraphs set in a certain paragraph style and make that number appear in your document. It’s great for displaying the number of list items, steps in a series of instructions, etc. The script is called Count Number of Steps, and it’s the […]

TypeTalk: U&lc Magazine Retrospective part 4, Innovative Headline Treatments

Our retrospective of the groundbreaking U&lc (Upper and lowercase) magazine continues with a look back at some of this iconic magazine’s innovative headline treatments. U&lc was the award-winning typographic journal published by International Typeface Corporation (ITC) from 1970 to 1999 created to showcase the ITC typeface library, in addition to serving as a palette for […]

Find More Than One Paragraph with GREP

GREP is, by default, set up to find text inside a paragraph. That is, if you search for .+ (one or more of any character), then it will find those characters from the beginning of the paragraph to the end of the paragraph, and then stop. That’s it. But what if you’re trying to match […]