April, 2014 | CreativePro Network

Sound Advice: Using the Camera Microphone

Most of you consider yourselves visual professionals, and as such may have little concern for capturing good audio. Yet I’ll wager that many of you find yourself increasingly wrestling with sound, and probably wondering how best to deal with it. It might be rich content in an article you are writing, or audio for a […]

Automatic Currency Symbol in a Table Cell or Before Text

Izaac wrote: I am trying to add a currency symbol such as $ sign to a cell as a style, which means that the style needs to include the $ sign every time it is applied to another cell. My initial response was that this is unfortunately not possible and that he should check out […]

Why Does My Preview Still Show the Bleed?

Nancy wrote: My student has an InDesign file in which bleeds seem to be set properly, however when he views in Preview, the bleed does not clip away visually as usual. I set up a sample doc on the same work station and the problem persists. Yes, this can really be confusing (“why is InDesign […]

Make an eBlast Promotion with Photoshop and HTML/CSS

Like many designers, I work on a wide variety of projects, from websites and brochures, to ads and emails. Recently, a client’s book was getting great reviews and they wanted send out an eBlast promotion through a third party. Due tomorrow. So I needed to design, markup, and test the eBlast as quickly as possible. […]

The CreativePro Weekly Top 10, vol. 11

1. We begin the 11th edition of the CreativePro Top 10, with a nod to Mr. “These go to eleven,” Nigel Tufnel. I was unable to locate a worthy approximation of the Spinal Tap font, but the amazing Typodermic fonts offers some great heavy metal fonts that are free for commercial use (along with many […]

Adding Prefixes to Page Numbers in InDesign

For a page-layout program, adding page numbers can be surprisingly confusing! But fear not, it’s not as bad as it sometimes seems. We have several articles about page numbers already, but I want to focus on one aspect of numbering (or adding “folios” as some call them): adding prefixes. For example, let’s say you want […]

The Oldest Living Things in the World

What’s old? Is an iPhone 4 old? Sure, just ask any teen. How about Windows XP? That’s decrepit, right? So says Microsoft. How about a Sony Walkman? So ancient that kids can’t even figure out what to do with it. Betty White’s pretty old, but still kicking well past 90. But even Betty is a […]

Taking control when control is needed

The InCopy workflow brings a lot of great benefits to the table including the ability to edit copy to fit a given area, viewing the final design of a project in InCopy as you work, and the ability to edit content in a layout while the designer is making adjustments to that layout just to […]

Multilevel Numbering With a Zero (like 2.0.1)

Here’s an interesting problem: How can you make an auto-numbered list of paragraphs that goes 1.0, 2.0, 2.01, 2.02, 2.1, and so on? It seems like it should be simple, but it takes a little extra work. I’ve discussed how to make multi-level numbered lists here, and stressed the importance of making multiple paragraph styles. […]