August, 2017 | CreativePro Network

Podcast 247

• Report InDesign bugs and feature on UserVoice
• August’s InDesign Contest and the Template of the Month
• Our 100th issue of InDesign Magazine just published!
• Adobe MAX 2017: See Anne-Marie and David on stage

InDesign Magazine Issue 101: InDesign 101

We’re happy to announce that InDesign Magazine Issue 101 (September 2017) is now available! Here’s what the issue includes: InDesign 101: New to InDesign? David Blatner shows you how to start off on the right foot. Diane Burns shares a creative technique for drawing attention to important tabular data. Nigel French shows you how to make a […]

Preview InDesign Pages with INDD Preview for Mac

Need to add alt text to images to make your documents more accessible? Here’s a way to automate the process, thanks to a cool free script.

Tip of the Week: Faster Interactive Previews

This InDesign tip on how to get faster interactive previews was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on August 24, 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 page, enter your […]

Got a Feature Request? Speak Up at the InDesign UserVoice Page

In software development, as in politics and other walks of life, silence is consent. Or, if you prefer the original Latin, qui tacet consentire videtur. In other words, the squeaky wheel get the grease. If you don’t speak up, it is assumed you’re cool with things the way they are. When it comes to feature requests, […]

Using Photoshop’s Plastic Wrap Filter

Photoshop’s Plastic Wrap filter is great at creating liquid effects of all kinds. It’s also, unsurprisingly, very effective at wrapping an object in plastic. In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can take a toy ray gun and make it look as if it’s mounted on a packaging display of the kind you’d find in […]

Freebies for the New (School) Year!

All the back-to-school talk I see online has me nostalgic for that sense of anticipation of a new school year, from the smell of new school supplies to the fresh feeling of new school clothes. That was a long time ago—longer for some of us than others—but that doesn’t mean we can’t have new supplies […]