August, 2019 | CreativePro Network

How to Use the Adaptive Wide Angle Filter in Photoshop

Grossly distorted wide angle photographs are ugly and confusing. Photoshop’s Adaptive Wide Angle filter lets you correct even extreme distortions simply by drawing lines over the image, automatically straightening them to turn an unusable photograph into an appealing one. Here’s how to make use of this powerful filter. Step 1: The original image This is […]

This Month in InDesign Articles, August 2019

Have you ever wondered why Adobe called it “InDesign”? Why not OutDesign or OverDesign or ThroughDesign? Since the team that built it originally worked on PageMaker, and they were competing against QuarkXPress at the time, why not call it “PageExpress”?! As we continue to celebrate this year—2019—as the 20th anniversary of the release of InDesign, […]

CreativePro Video: Add Chapter Numbers to a Table of Contents

In this week’s CreativePro video, Sandee Cohen shows how to add a chapter number to an InDesign table of contents entry using custom numbering. New videos every Tuesday on our CreativePro YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss any!

InDesign How-to Video: Format a Text Chat

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner demos how to format a text chat. Using the power of the Find/Change dialog box and integrating paragraph styles, he quickly creates the look and feel of text chat bubbles. Download the sample file to work with here. Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets […]

Understanding the Merge Shapes Tool in PowerPoint

There is a large selection of predefined shapes and icons that you can use in PowerPoint to add into your slides. However, I often find that none of them is quite right for what I’m looking for. That’s when I use the Merge Shapes tool – it gives me the power to create exactly the […]

Building Catalogs

This article appeared in Issue 124 of InDesign Magazine. Learn how to create high-performing catalogs by following these best-practice tips & techniques The job of producing catalogs frequently puts people from all levels of an organization under stress. Product managers are under pressure to collate product information, source product photographs, and update pricing. Management is strained to […]

Working in Microsoft Word #2

This article appeared in Issue 124 of InDesign Magazine. Mastering the ultimate InDesign text editor As a book designer and typesetter for the last 25 years, I spend the majority of my day moving text from Microsoft Word to Adobe InDesign. And I know that InDesign Magazine has published many articles devoted to the best practices for […]