September, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Solving Problems With Complex Table Formatting

I recently had to design a calendar in InDesign using complex table formatting with very specific requirements for row and column strokes: Thick lines separating each month, spanning across the columns Names of the months in white, with a colored background Individual days with row dividers, but not column dividers Row dividers could not span across the columns Weekends […]

CreativePro Tip of the Week: Blurring Artwork in Illustrator

This CreativePro Tip of the Week on Blurring Artwork in Illustrator was sent to CreativeProse email subscribers on August 23, 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 […]

Photoshop Tip: Quickly Resize the Photoshop Canvas with Reveal All and Trim

If you’ve ever designed with type in Photoshop, you’ve probably encountered a situation where changing the size or font caused the text to not fit on the canvas any more. Most folks would use the Canvas Size command to, well, increase the canvas size. But that’s pretty tedious because you have to enter specific values […]

Metamedia: A Book with InDesign on its Cover

Can you judge a book by its cover? After all, first impressions are often right… right? So when I picked up the book Metamedia, I knew I had a winner in my hands. After all, the cover literally displays user-interface elements of Adobe InDesign: the Tools panel and the Control panel (set, of course, to […]

Confusing Type Terms, Part 1

The ability to talk about type and design, and say what you mean with clarity and accuracy, is an essential skill for designers. Within the language of typography, there are several pairs of terms in which items are either confused with each other, or just totally misunderstood. In Part 1 of this series, I will […]

InType: Hometown Alphabet

Capture a moment in type. An alphabet or typographic portrait of your hometown can capture its essence at a particular moment in time. I’ve made several over the years, and each is a love letter to a place I hold dear. (Fair warning, there’s aren’t any InDesign specifics until later in the article, but if […]

Tip of the Week: Adding Keyboard Shortcuts for Alignment Commands

This InDesign tip on adding keyboard shortcuts for alignment commands was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on August 7, 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 […]

Tips for Multilingual InDesign Projects

Learn how you can help your InDesign translation process go as smoothly as possible.

Which Photoshop Content-Aware Feature Should You Use?

In Photoshop, content-aware features make automatic edits such as seamlessly blending the edges of retouched image areas. They use technology that recognizes different types of image content. Content-aware features help you retouch images faster, and open up new possibilities for changing the composition of an image. But how do you know which of the many […]