February, 2016 | CreativePro Network

Sending a Comp CC File to InDesign

One of the Adobe mobile creative apps I love the most (you can read about all of them here) is Comp CC. At its core, it’s a comping app that lets you mock up layouts for print and digital, then gives you the ability to finish working on the file in one of Adobe’s desktop […]

GREP of the Month: This or That

The vertical bar helps when you need options in your GREP searches This article appeared in Issue 81 of InDesign Magazine. Sometimes you need to find several different strings of text in your document. If you know the specific strings, you could always do individual searches, using the Text tab of InDesign’s Find/Change dialog box. But you […]

Tip of the Week: 5 Ways to Reduce the Size of Your InDesign Files

Do’s and don’ts for keeping the size of your InDesign files to a minimum

Designing with Adobe Stock

Conrad Chavez shows how CC Libraries give Adobe Stock key advantages over other sources of imagery.

SOS San Francisco: A Case Study for Collective Visual Brainstorming

This article details the creative process used to develop the graphics for SOS San Francisco, a group of creatives and community leaders resisting cultural displacement in the city of SanFrancisco. The ideas and methods can be applied to all sorts of other projects with a diverse range of participants, applications, and output requirements.The Inspiration: Pushing Back Against the […]

Mystery of the Perplexing Preview Contest Answer and Winner!

It’s time to reveal the solution—and the winner—for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest! Here’s the scenario: You receive an InDesign file with a logo composed of a placed image, some type on a path, and a background circle with a red fill and black stroke. When you deselect everything and enter Preview mode, the placed image disappears while the text and […]

InReview: Style Utilities

Cinnamon Cooper reviews an add-on that supercharges your ability to wield text styles in InDesign.

Free Lynda.com Video: Creating an InDesign Booklet Using XML

Video course shows how to execute data-heavy design projects almost effortlessly with XML.

Ten Tips for New Web Designers

For those of you who may be less familiar with the details of web design it can feel overwhelming to even approach a web design project. However, web design doesn’t have to be dramatically different in approach than any other creative project—and with the right process in place it can be more manageable. These 9 […]