Editor’s note: This post is a follow-up to Erica’s earlier article on how to add colors to InDesign documents using Adobe Capture. How to Add Colors to InDesign Documents With Adobe Color Adobe Color—which is what the late, great Kuler eventually morphed into—is the online home of all your color themes. If you created a theme in […]
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On Monday, Adobe announced updates to many of the Creative Cloud applications including Adobe InCopy. The update includes a number of welcomed features to improve productivity and overall efficiency when working in InCopy. Let me get the most obvious thing out of the way first. There’s not a typo in the title of this article. […]
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Digital Art Studio 1: Customizing Photoshop shortcuts This is the first post in a new series we’re calling The Digital Art Studio. Here I’ll share with you some of the ways I integrate digital tools into my creative workflow. These posts will generally be fairly short and will mainly focus on the digital aspect to how […]
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Mixing type and graphics to choose the right font for the job every time This article appeared in Issue 86 of InDesign Magazine. According to the ’50s Sinatra hit, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. The same is true for type. The right type adds harmony to a layout—like drinking a chilled Sancerre alongside […]
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Adobe has promised subscribers to its Creative Cloud plan that it will release major new versions of the applications every year. But sometimes, they like to give us interim releases to whet our appetites – and that’s the case with the awkwardly named Photoshop CC 2015.5. The new version, which will be a free download […]
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Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with your calendar. It is indeed June 2016, and Adobe is releasing a new version of InDesign CC 2015. You may also be experiencing a bit of deja vu, since this is the fifth release of InDesign CC 2015 since the first version came out about a year ago. The […]
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With this free InDesign script, you can fix problematic text wrap with precision and ease.
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I won’t go on and on about how wonderful an event The Print + ePublishing Conference (PePcon) is every year. I won’t tell you that being in one place with so many amazing speakers, attendees working in so many fields and using publishing tools in the most creative ways, and helpful vendors is a delight […]
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There are so many options for getting colors into an InDesign document, whether they’re imported or created right within InDesign. With the introduction—and recent coming of age—of the Creative Cloud, those colors can come from a wide range of sources. Having Creative Cloud as a central repository makes quick work of finding color inspiration in […]
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