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Customizing Keynote’s Toolbar
Similar to most Adobe programs, Apple’s Keynote is chock full of useful features. Unlike Adobe’s panel-based user interfaces, though, Keynote uses buttons and menus to access functionality. So many buttons and menus. I constantly have to stop myself from trying to force Keynote to understand Adobe keyboard shortcuts. Instead of trying to hunt down every […]
Continue readingTop 10 InDesign Secrets of 2015
What an incredible year for InDesign it has been! No matter what flavor of InDesign CC or CS you use, we have published over 200 new articles for you this year, containing hundreds of tips, tricks, videos, and more. You can find our full archive here, but I’m guessing that you’d probably rather focus in on the […]
Continue readingTop CreativePro Articles of 2015
What a year 2015 has been for us at CreativePro.com and for you, our readers! Thank you for your continued support. A quick recap: Over the past 12 months we’ve published over 200 original articles that covered your favorite topics: design, typography, photography, color, layout, and the business of graphic design. Also, CreativePro.com freshened its design, added […]
Continue readingThis Month in InDesign Articles, Number 140
Our editor in chief, Mike Rankin, is out on holiday this week, which means I get to write anything I want! I can feel the power pulsing in my typing fingers, the chance to finally break out and express how I truly feel without fear of censorship or criticism… Yes! And what I want to […]
Continue readingSetting InDesign’s Display Performance
I spend a lot of time helping people troubleshoot their InDesign files. I love trying to figure out a good mystery, so I’m always up for the challenge. One question I have been asked for years has to do with onscreen image quality. The question usually goes something like, “My images look really jaggedy onscreen, […]
Continue readingTip of the Week: Use Quick Apply to Drag and Drop Text
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Continue readingA Film Technique for Your Digital Photography
Before Picture Elements (“pixels” for short) were a gleam in some IBM engineer’s eye, image capture involved gelatin-coated film, darkrooms and an array of messy, smelly chemicals of varying degrees of toxicity, but we loved it. Back then, “image capture” was called “taking photographs.” (And, by the way, get off my lawn.) “Analog” photography evolved […]
Continue readingWhat is the Nothing Font Style?
What the heck?! I opened an InDesign document and got this Missing Fonts dialog box that tells me “Myriad Pro Nothing” is missing! Nothing? Not regular, italic, bold, semibold… just Nothing! There is no such thing as the Nothing style in the Myriad Pro family, of course. There is actually a lovely font called Nothing, but […]
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