April, 2017 | CreativePro Network

CreativePro Tip of the Week: Auto-Select a Layer in Photoshop

This CreativePro Tip of the Week to Auto-Select a layer in Photoshop was sent to CreativeProse email subscribers on April 19, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, plus roundups of new articles, and exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this page, enter your email address, and […]

URLs: Breaking (Badly)

With the help of GREP styles, you can solve the problem of bad breaks in long URLs. Dividing URLs over a line is seemingly simple—Never hyphenate a URL—but the next question is, where do we break long URLs? The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition now recommends breaking before rather than after a slash. But […]

Free Lynda.com Video: Photoshop for Designers – Color

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Color is a fundamental aspect of nearly all design work. And if you’re working in Photoshop, all the tools and options for working with color can be a little overwhelming. If you need some help to master working with color in Photoshop, peruse the Lynda.com course by Nigel French, Photoshop for Designers: Color. Here’s the […]

The Shocking Truth About InDesign’s Spell Check

If you work with catalogs with lots of part numbers, or with documents that contain volts or watts expressed like 1200W or 240V, you need to know about a key difference between older and more recent versions of InDesign. Since InDesign CS6, InDesign has offered a choice of two spelling dictionaries in Preferences > Dictionary. Proximity is the dictionary default […]

InQuestion: April 2017

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.

Five Faster Ways to Get Images Into Photoshop

Open, paste, drag-and drop…chances are, you’re bringing images into Photoshop the same way you do in other applications. By moving beyond these habits and adding some new tricks to your toolbox, you can improve your efficiency and productivity in Photoshop. So check out these five faster ways to get images into Photoshop. 1. Opening or Importing Multiple […]

Tip of the Week: Use RGB PDFs to Avoid Packaging Errors

This InDesign tip on using RGB PDFs to avoid packaging errors was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on April 13, 2017. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom of this […]