February, 2020 | CreativePro Network

Book Excerpt: How Do I Do That In InDesign?

Highlights from Dave Clayton’s book of more than 250 fundamental tips and tricks that every InDesign user should know.

How to Create a Color Group with Object Mosaic in Illustrator

Using color groups is a great way to organize your swatches in Adobe Illustrator. You can create groups that make sense to you—perhaps group your corporate colors, group by job, or group using color harmony rules. You can even add your groups to your Creative Cloud libraries to share with your colleagues. But do you […]

Organizing Print Presets

Lauren writes, I love having Print Presets in InDesign so I don’t have to enter all the information every time I print. The problem is, I have so many and there seems to be no way to put them in any order other than the order I created them in. Do you know any solutions? […]

CreativePro Video: Create a Segmented Ring Infographic in Illustrator

In this week’s CreativePro video, Laurie Ruhlin shows off a quick way to make a segmented ring infographic in Illustrator. Using the Shape Builder tool—and a dash of the Rotate and Path Eraser tools—she quickly divides a circle in segments and colors the segments as well. New videos every Tuesday on our CreativePro YouTube channel. […]

InDesign How-to Video: Clean Up Text with a Built-in Script

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner shows you an easy way to clean up your text in InDesign using a built-in script. The FindChangeByList script removes unwanted spaces and returns, changes double-hyphens to dashes, and more by simply running this customizable script that is already inside of InDesign! Check out new tutorials every Tuesday […]

How to Draw with the Curve, Freeform and Scribble Tools in PowerPoint

Learn how to use the tools for drawing custom lines and shapes in PowerPoint.

Take the LinkedIn Learning Assessment Exams

When you’re building your profile in LinkedIn, you have the option of letting the world know what skills you have. Moreover, your colleagues can endorse you for skills. The more people endorse you in a skill, the more everyone can see that you have it. For example, I have over 99 endorsements in InDesign, 40 […]

Scripts for Working with Long Documents

This article appeared in Issue 130 of InDesign Magazine. Long document layout with InDesign presents some unique challenges. Besides the sheer volume of content, these documents are often highly structured with multiple levels of headings. They may contain highly technical content and feature lots of paragraph and character style variations. They also sometimes use InDesign’s Book panel, […]

CreativePro Video: Repeat Transformations in Illustrator

In this week’s CreativePro video, Dave Cross shows off the easy way to repeat a transformation in Adobe Illustrator. If an item has been rotated, moved, skewed, or duplicated, you can apply that same transformation to other items with a simple keyboard shortcut. New videos every Tuesday on our CreativePro YouTube channel. Be sure to […]