September, 2016 | CreativePro Network

InDesign Magazine Issue 90: InDesign Nightmares

We’re happy to announce that InDesign Magazine Issue 90 (October, 2016) is now available! Here’s what the issue includes: David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion pull back the covers to face the scariest InDesign boogeymen. Ilene Strizver shares her favorite fonts for creating a bold impression with type. Mike Rankin shows how to create fun Halloween designs with spiderweb effects. […]

Podcast 236

• We each describe 3 of our favorite free InDesign scripts
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Satin
• The QUIZZLER answer and winner! She had a 1 out of 1 chance of winning ;-)

Premiere Pro Tutorial: Simple Color Correction for Video

Adobe Premiere Pro can feel a bit intimidating if you are new to the program and video editing. However, if you are at least comfortable with Photoshop or Lightroom, you can grasp the basics of Premiere Pro, since there is some overlap in the tools. If you’ve just gotten started with creating videos, you can […]

GoProof Makes Online Proofing Easy in Creative Cloud Apps

For the past month I’ve been playing with GoProof, a free new online proofing add-on for the CC 2015 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. It adds a proof tracking panel to each app that integrates with my (free) account at GoProof.net. After downloading and installing the GoProof add-on, I found a new GoProof panel […]

This Month in Articles, September 2016

I’ve just spent two days with my kids at Minecon, the annual conference for Minecraft players and I can tell you: These people really need to spend more time learning InDesign. I mean, hardly anyone there knew how to use Quick Apply, much less could figure out paragraphs styles or master pages! Well, fortunately, here […]

The A, B, Cs of Numbered Lists

In excerpts from Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman, this article explains the psychological effects of fonts on the reader, for the purpose of helping you use type more effectively.

Generating Web and Mobile Assets Gets Easier in the Latest Release of Adobe Illustrator

As a long time Adobe Illustrator user, I’ve always found it easier to comp web pages and create artwork for web sites using Adobe Illustrator. Partially because with a print background, I find working in Adobe Illustrator to be second nature. Working with vector content has advantages over programs such as Adobe Photoshop by allowing me […]