January, 2017 | CreativePro Network

The Magical Work of Marty Blake

Marty Blake has been working as an illustrator and graphic designer for many years. Her illustration is grounded in collage, and these days, most often executed digitally. Her pictures are composed of scraps from her extensive library of old books, magazines, ephemera, a set of 1939 wallpaper swatch books, and vintage cigar box labels. Her […]

Mastering InDesign’s Editorial Workflow Tools

Whether your role as an InDesign user is that of a designer or an editor, taking advantage of these seven tools can make you more productive. This article appeared in Issue 93 of InDesign Magazine. If you’re like most InDesign users, you have almost entirely overlooked InDesign’s amazing editorial tools. I say this not because I feel like […]

Tip of the Week: Instant Icons with Font Awesome

This InDesign tip on creating instant icons with Font Awesome was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on January 12, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email […]

Solving Word Workflow Problems With Style Mapping

I received an email from an editor who was using Microsoft Word to set and style text he was placing into InDesign per my “Moving Text from Word to InDesign” article on CreativePro.com: One problem I’ve run into is this: I have preexisting ID project files for a book series. The problem is that Word […]

Five New Type Features in Illustrator CC 2017

Illustrator added several new features to its stable recently with the shiny new CC2017 update. Among them are a few type-related improvements. While most just duplicate functionality that can be found in InDesign, I see that as a Very Good Thing™. Now, you might think the new features aren’t worthy of a mention because of […]

InDesign Basics: Your First Animation

Back in InDesign CS5, Adobe added a very cool Animation panel to InDesign that allowed users to animate content on a page. Unfortunately the timing of this feature was not so great due to the fact that InDesign could only output these animations to Adobe Flash in the form of a .SWF file. So for […]

Quick Solutions to 4 “Impossible” Adobe Problems

In my daily work (and as an Adobe Community Professional), I get asked a lot of questions about how to accomplish specific tasks in Creative Cloud applications like InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat. Some folks have questions about an application’s features. Others have issues with a problematic document or corrupted preferences. Some of my favorite questions are […]