January, 2016 | CreativePro Network

Free Lynda.com Video: Creating Fixed-Layout eBooks for the Kindle

Video course shows how to prepare an InDesign file for ebook output, export the text and image assets, add them to the Kindle template, and build in special features.

Wrangling Your Styles in InDesign

Using styles in InDesign is one of the best practices you can employ to ensure consistency within a single document and across multiple documents. In a Utopian world of perfect file layout, there would be a style for everything. Getting to Style Nirvana, however, involves discipline and forethought in wrangling those styles into submission. With […]

Identify the Adornments Contest Answer and Winner!

The answer to this month’s contest, plus the winner, a confession, and a request.

InDesign Template Essentials: Sidebars and Pull Quotes

This month we’re offering a whole new kind of template: a set of flexible page elements that can be used in all kinds of projects. We call them Template Essentials, and the first one is a collection of sidebars and pull quotes.

InDesign Template Essentials: Sidebars and Pull Quotes

This is a collection of a dozen different sidebar designs and eight kinds of pull quotes, all formatted cleanly with paragraph, character, and object styles. Just copy and paste them into your documents and to tweak them to suit your needs.

TypeTalk: The Typographic Expressions of Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister is an award-winning designer known for his bold, innovative work, especially his type and handwriting-inspired solutions.

Using Illustrator’s Blend Tool

Illustrator’s Blend tool lets you combine shapes and colors between two or more objects to create a new object. The Blend tool blends colors as well as shapes and interpolates the intermediate steps to get from one object to the next. The ability to create blends is a fundamental skill for anyone using Illustrator. If […]

Tip of the Week: Swatches Panel Makeover

Clean up your Indesign Swatches panel once and for all

Put That iPad to Work for Your Studio

The Apple iPad is a primary creative tool for some; others have set it aside after finding that their production workflows need tools that aren’t here yet. But if you move beyond the notion that the iPad must replace or compete with your studio computer, you may find that it’s quite useful as a computer accessory as well as an independent […]