January, 2016 | CreativePro Network

This Month in InDesign Articles, Number 141

News, tutorials, tips, and more from around the Web for InDesign users.

Adobe’s Mobile Creative Apps

A good majority of Adobe users have moved to the subscription-based Creative Cloud versions of their favorite software. In my experience, many people migrated because they had to and some did so begrudgingly. But what I also found was that a large portion of that group was won over by all of the extras offered […]

Podcast 229

• Our 2016 InDesign Resolution: Pay Attention to the Little Things!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Select and Fit Item

Sales 101: A Postmortem on the Pitch that Went Wrong

You sit in a meeting trying to explain your idea…you think it’s brilliant, you think it’ll be fantastic…but the client just isn’t buying it. They can’t seem to see the value of paying for your idea or what you are pitching. Why is this happening? So many creatives deal with this on a regular basis whether they are […]

Understanding the First Baseline Position of Text

A guide to understanding the factors that affect the position of the first baseline of text in InDesign.

Working With Text Styles in CC Libraries

Using the power of CC Libraries is the easiest way to share text styles across InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Create a style in InDesign and have it immediately available for you to use in Illustrator: No copy and paste required. The newer versions of the CC apps allow for both paragraph and character styling, which […]

Tip of the Week: Checking Bleeds

Make inadequate bleeds easy to spot—or just let InDesign spot them for you.

Making an Animated Route Map

Remember those cool flight maps from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the other Indiana Jones movies? Here’s how to make something similar with InDesign.

Getting Started with CC Libraries

If you’re like most folks, you probably picture the content of Adobe’s Creative Cloud as akin to the old Creative Suite, a collection of desktop applications for creating professional quality print and digital projects. But what a lot of folks overlook is the fact that the Creative Cloud also includes an increasing number of services […]