May, 2019 | CreativePro Network

InDesign Magazine Issue 122: Cross-Media Color

We’re happy to announce that InDesign Magazine Issue #122 (June 2019) is now available! Here’s what the issue includes: From InDesign to Print & Screen: A Best of All Worlds Workflow Steve Laskevitch shows how to get great results in print and digital output from just one InDesign file. InDesign 101: Tabs Sandee Cohen reviews what […]

InDesign How-to Video: How to Automate Run-in Header Styles

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner shows how easy it is to format specific text at the beginning of a paragraph. If these run-in headers fit a pattern, it’s super easy to apply the formatting automatically. Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join the discussion on our […]

Creating Silhouettes in Photoshop with Remove.bg

I reviewed the revolutionary cutout tool remove.bg a couple of months back, and marveled at its ability to remove backgrounds from images of people in an instant – with far more accuracy than Photoshop can manage on its own. At the time, we commented that it would be useful if the website could return not […]

How to Design Timelines

When designed well, timelines can turn a boring list of events into an engaging narrative. We usually think of time in a linear way, but timelines can take on many different shapes to complement the content and viewing context. This article covers the basics of designing a timeline and shows a variety of timeline formats, […]

Tip of the Week: Guide Tips, Part 2

This InDesign tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on May 23, 2019. 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 address, and click Go! We’ll […]

Podcast 267

• Interview with Chad Chelius
• Keyboard Shortcut of the Week: Fit Frame to Content

Table Text Keyboard Shortcuts Stopped Working (and how to fix it)

The keyboard shortcuts for navigating through text stopped working… but only inside tables! To be honest, this broke over a year ago (I’m not sure exactly which InDesign upgrade broke them) but the annoyance just finally became so bad that I had to find a fix and share it with you. The shortcuts I’m talking […]

How to Number Pages of a Spread With a Range

Editor’s Note: this post was excerpted from Jeff’s handout from CreativePro Week 2018. There’s still time to register for CreativePro Week 2019, or sign up for a Virtual Pass so you don’t miss out! There’s a reason I love answering questions on the Adobe Forum. Sometimes the best answers to difficult questions involve using features […]

Avoiding the Insane Behavior of Undocked Panels

Pet peeves. We all have ’em. And if you spend enough time using any software program you’ll assemble a collection of peeves about the the way that program works. One InDesign peeve that I’ve had since, well, forever, is the way that collapsed undocked panels get screwy if you click on their icon or name. […]