May, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Almost Automatic End Marks

You know what end marks are, right? Maybe you call them by another name, but we’ve all seen or used them. They’re the little icons/symbols/dingbats/doo-dads at the end of an article in print or onscreen. For example, we use a little red square in InDesign Magazine to separate the end of an article from the […]

Secrets of the Esc Key

If you’ll pardon the pun, the Esc key might escape the notice of many Adobe Creative Cloud users, but it’s actually a great shortcut. You might already know that the Esc key can be a shortcut for the Cancel button, but it does a few more interesting things in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Illustrator. I wrote this article […]

Bonus Features of Styles

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.

Creating a Styled List of Styles in InDesign

Whether it’s your job to create documentation for a project, or you’re just trying to understand the formatting of a document that was built by someone else, a free script by Dave Saunders can be a big help. The script creates a list of all the paragraph styles in the document where each style name appears […]

Creating a Table of Contents for a Subsection of a Long Document

I work with a lot of long documents, and here’s a question I often get from clients and other folks: Q: I have a secondary table of contents that I would like to have as an outline for a smaller section within my document. Is there any way to do this? Thank you! And at […]

CreativePro Tip of the Week: Transforming Type Shapes in Illustrator

This CreativePro Tip of the Week for transforming type shapes in Illustrator was sent to CreativeProse email subscribers on May 10, 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 […]

Free Lynda.com Course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Iconography

Simplicity has had its champions and disciples from Thoreau to Jony Ive, but finding a seemingly simple solution to a complex problem often requires a ton of hard work, knowledge, and skill. Case in point: designing icons. How do you distill the essence of any concept down to a simple set of shapes and colors that […]