February, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Using Find/Change to Copy a Character or Paragraph Style to Multiple Documents

You have 50 documents and you want to add the same character style (or paragraph style or object style) to each of them. There are several good ways to do this. (I’m assuming you’ve made the style in one of them first.) You could put all the documents in a book, set a master document, […]

Finding the Location of Missing Fonts in Your InDesign Layout

If you search for a missing font in InDesign using the Find Font dialog box and can’t locate the troublemaker on a page, click More Info. The dialog box will expand and list the page and character count of text formatted with the missing font. If you still can’t locate it, click Done to close […]

InStep: Making Figure Legends

In excerpts from Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman, this article explains the psychological effects of fonts on the reader, for the purpose of helping you use type more effectively.

InDesign GREP Essentials: Wildcards

This article is part of a series of posts on using GREP in InDesign for beginners GREP finds patterns based on generalities. That is, you don’t need to know exactly which numbers you’re looking for, just that you are, indeed, looking for numbers. Wildcards come into play when we need to write an expression that […]

CreativePro Tip of the Week: Locking Objects in Illustrator

This CreativePro Tip of the Week on locking objects in Illustrator was sent to CreativeProse email subscribers on February 15, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, plus roundups of new articles, and exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and click Submit! […]

Free Lynda.com Video: Drawing with Photoshop Sketch

For many creatives, mobile devices are constant companions, with the potential to be useful tools for capturing and creating content anytime, anywhere. That’s the thinking that inspired Adobe to create many mobile apps that dovetail with Creative Cloud desktop applications, including Photoshop Sketch. And you can get acquainted with this cool app in Tony Harmer’s Lynda.com […]

Copy and Paste Text Formatting with the Eyedropper Tool

Here’s a quick tip for those times when you’re experimenting with different combinations of text formatting to find the right look for a piece of type. Use the Eyedropper tool. It can make quick work of the job because it allows you to sample and apply just about any combination of text formatting options. To […]