August, 2014 | CreativePro Network

How to Find Your Creative Cloud Applications in Windows 8.1

I may be in the vast minority but I really enjoy working with Windows 8.1. Despite all the negativity, Microsoft has done a pretty good job of addressing most of the complaints users have lodged from a usability standpoint. But one complaint I see over and over again is from Creative Cloud subscribers who can’t find the applications […]

Fonts to Help the Homeless

Good things often spring from the union of commerce, art, and charity, as these “fonts with a purpose” illustrate. The Arrels Foundation for the homeless has partnered with the Cyranos McCann agency and a handful of homeless people to create Homelessfonts. The handwriting of these people living on the streets of Barcelona—used to adorn their […]

An Improved Sample Buttons and Forms Library Panel

Did you know that InDesign has a built-in library of buttons and forms elements? You can open it by clicking in the Buttons and Forms panel fly-out menu. The folks at Adobe went to a great deal of effort to create the Sample Buttons and Forms library. They created 152 different library items, including checkboxes, radio buttons, and […]

Editing Highlights and Shadows in Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw have two sets of controls for making tone and contrast adjustments: The Basic panel Tone sliders and the Tone Curve. Because the slider names in these two sets of tools are almost the same, some believe that both sets of sliders do the same thing, while others believe […]

A New Look for the US Postal Service

The United States Postal Service’s financial woes are well-documented and its relevancy often questioned. To turn that negative image around, the USPS turned to New York’s GrandArmy creative agency for help in modernizing their image. The agency worked to bring packaging, signage, and the USPS retail store experience up-to-date. GrandArmy created a unified look to […]

Improved Scaling of Effects in InDesign CC 2014

One of the cool new features in the 2014 release of InDesign CC is the way transparency effects are handled when you scale them. Now, by default, effects like Drop Shadow, Bevel and Emboss, and others will scale right along with the object they are applied to. And if you open the Effects dialog box, you’ll […]

Layer Tennis is Back!

Are you ready for the best tennis match of the year? I’m not talking about the US Open or even Wimbledon. Prepare your eyeballs for the return of Layer Tennis! This friendly competition between two creatives—animators, artists, illustrators, graphic designers, photographers—happens in real-time and even has play-by-play commentary. The competitors volley a file back and […]

Tip of the Week: Quick New Color Swatches

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This Week in InDesign Articles, Number 124

I was joking with a friend of mine, asking if he had decided to switch back to QuarkXPress, and we laughed but I realized it made me sound old… like joking about going back to typewriters… that there is a generation of designers and production staff who had never even considered QuarkXPress, much less used […]