February, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Communication Arts 7th Annual Typography Competition

Communication Arts magazine, a professional journal for those involved in visual communications, has announced the winners of its 7th annual Typography Competition. This juried competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy, and hand lettering. Categories include collateral, packaging, media, motion, environmental, […]

Using Stylistic Sets

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.

Tip of the Week: Using Align and Distribute with Guides

This InDesign tip on using align and distribute with guides was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on February 9, 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 […]

Create a Valentine’s Day Pattern Using Conditional Text

Use conditional text, find/change, and some free scripts to make this fun Valentines project.

CreativePro Tip of the Week: Creating Guide Layouts in Photoshop

Ever need to create a set of regularly-spaced guides in a Photoshop document? Or use guides to create a margin area all around a Photoshop document? Then head right to the View menu and choose New Guide Layout. You can divide the canvas up into a specific number of columns and rows, or set the […]

InDesign GREP Essentials: How to Add, Delete, and Re-Arrange Text

This article is part of a series of posts on using GREP in InDesign for beginners One of the biggest advantages to using GREP with Find/Change in InDesign is the ability to manipulate the text you’ve found. For instance, you could find everything that fit the pattern of a price: \$\d+,*\d+\.\d{2} and then in the Change […]

Free Lynda.com Video: Learning InCopy

New video course shows how to master Adobe’s Publish Online service.

Basic Tips for Color Management

In early December, a community of conference-goers explored best practices and new advances in color management at the PIA’s 2016 Color Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona. As a native Phoenician, I didn’t have to travel far for the event but quickly learned that the conference had drawn in interested attendees from every corner of the […]

Making a Movie Poster

With the Oscars coming up later this month, I thought it would be fun to figure out how to make a movie poster with InDesign. Specifically, how to get the typical look of the credits that appear at the bottom of the poster. The common Hollywood approach is for the person’s name to be preceded […]