February, 2016 | CreativePro Network

InDesign Magazine Issue 83: CC Libraries

InDesign Magazine issue 83 features articles on Creative Cloud Libraries, Overprinting, Animated Effects, Add-ons, and more.

Podcast 230

• Interview with Bart Van de Weile
• A Shaded Paragraph Conundrum!
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: [[:xdigit:]]

Learning Typography with Typekit Practice

The way that I feel about fonts and typography can be summed up by a quote from The Lord of Rings, where Gandalf says of Hobbits, “You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you…” Yes, I know […]

This Month in InDesign Articles, February 2016

Hold down the Option/Alt key! Double-click! Press Esc and stand on one leg! Okay, that’s enough InDesign tips for today. Now let’s look at this collection of articles and interesting links I’ve been collecting for you: Want to make an object look like it’s “flipping” over when you roll over it? Lulu Kwan shows you […]

Photoshop New Features Guide

For some time, InDesign users have enjoyed a great free resource that details which features debuted with each new version of the program, all the way back to version 1.0. I’m talking about James Wamser’s InDesign New Features Guide, which you can read about at InDesignSecrets. To me, the InDesign New Features Guide is indispensable […]

InReview: QuickResize

A review of a script that makes the job of resizing an InDesign document much simpler

InDesign Template Essentials: Special Effects

This is a batch of fun graphic effects. There are six main categories of effects, and several variations within each category—and all are easy to use in your documents. Just copy and paste from the InDesign file and tweak to your liking. The download file has more information about how the effects are constructed and how to get the most out of them.