December, 2015 | CreativePro Network

Free Lynda.com Video: InDesign Scripting Made Easy

Why do we even bother using computers? They can be a colossal pain in the butt. They’re expensive, delicate, complicated, and chock full of nasty toxic materials. But…they also allow us to accomplish tasks that would be simply impossible (or take an impossible amount of time) to do manually. Try doing 5,000 personalized postcards by […]

Take Your Design Workflow Mobile with Adobe Capture CC

Earlier this year Adobe revamped its lineup of mobile tools for creative professionals. While most of the fanfare went to apps like Adobe Photoshop Fix and Mix, one of the most impressive apps, to me at least, is Adobe Capture CC. Capture CC combines four of Adobe’s previous mobile applications: Color, Shapes, Brush, and Hue, […]

Using Photoshop Tool Presets

If you find yourself using the same settings for a particular tool—or set of tools—in Photoshop, you might want to consider creating tool presets. Being a recent convert to Photoshop tool presets, I can only wonder why it took me so long to adopt this time-saving technique. Maybe you need to fill a shape with […]

The Complete Guide to Word Spacing

You don’t have to settle for default word spacing! Learn how to adjust it manually in InDesign.

Holiday FX: Do You Want to Build An InDesign Snowman?

Do you want to build a snowman? Come on let’s go and play! I know that this is InDesign But that’s just fine Who needs Illustrator anyway? With sincere apologies to fans of Disney’s Frozen, let’s see how easy it is to make an InDesign snowman with transparency effects (just don’t call him Olaf, or you’ll invite the […]

Podcast 228

• The InDesign Conference 2015: Our recap of the highlights
• New features in InDesign CC 2015.2, just released
• Tips on Using Adobe Stock photos in your layouts
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Check Links Before Opening Document

Customizing InDesign’s Placeholder Text

Tired of Lorem Ipsum for your placeholder text? Or, rather, InDesign’s randomly generated “Latin” text? I use scare quotes because I haven’t independently verified its, um, Latinness. Regardless of origin, it sure isn’t English (or even your own native tongue), so unless you’re actually writing in Latin, it tends to fall short. One purpose of […]

Tip of the Week: Creating Custom Motion Paths for Animation

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An Ultrawide Monitor Could Transform Your Workflow

Pick your way past the gamer-oriented ads, and you find LG, HP, and Dell are all selling ultrawide monitors they say are for people who actually have to get work done. (Designers, animators, digital artists, video and motion graphics people are collectively “content creators” in current marketing-speak.) But are ultrawides a Thing, or just a […]