October, 2019 | CreativePro Network

InDesign How-to Video: How to Create a Word Search Puzzle

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Nigel French shows how to quickly create a word search puzzle in InDesign. Using an online generator for the text, he employs the Gridify feature, find/change, and keep options to craft the perfect puzzle. Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join the discussion […]

GREP of the Month: Reveal Codes

Normally, you can’t target text with mixed formatting in a GREP search. But with this workaround, it’s a cinch.

Dotphoton Review

Every serious photographer knows that capturing RAW images has significant advantages over their equivalent JPEGs: the vastly greater bit depth gives far more flexibility in the editing process, allowing you to recover seemingly lost data from dark shadows and apparently blown-out highlights. But all this comes at a cost: RAW photographs are typically three to […]

How to Reverse a Numbered List in InDesign

If you ever need to reverse a numbered list in InDesign, (reversing either the list numbers or the items themselves), here’s how to do it. First, if you need to reverse the numbering, keeping the list items themselves in place, you can use a script written by Jongware. Download it here. Once you have the […]

Why Word Character Styles Won’t Map Cleanly to InDesign Styles

The ability to map Microsoft Word text styles to InDesign styles is an incredibly important feature that many of us rely on to get our work done efficiently. And for the most part, the process works without a hitch. You can even customize the style mapping in the Import Options dialog box. But once in […]

CreativePro Video: Visualize Interactivity Using Photoshop and Adobe XD

In this week’s CreativePro video, Chris Converse demos a quick way to visualize interactivity when you only have Photoshop files. Using Adobe XD, he shows how easy it is to demonstrate a design’s future functionality. New videos every Tuesday on our CreativePro YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss any!

InDesign How-to Video: How to Create Concentric Shapes

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Mike Rankin shows how easy it is to create concentric shapes in InDesign. He demos shortcuts for aligning the shapes perfectly within each other and how to manipulate those shapes even further. Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join the discussion on our […]

InReview: ID2Office

This article appeared in Issue 126 of InDesign Magazine. Steve Caplin reviews a solution from moving InDesign layouts into Word, PowerPoint, and Keynote. Word and PowerPoint are, like it or not, the world’s most-used applications for word processing and presentations. But their ubiquity doesn’t mean they’re the best tools for the job; both suffer from awkward layout […]

Building an Isometric Timeline of Modern Milestones in Design and Publishing with Illustrator

Anticipating another great CreativePro Week in Seattle, I was excited to get a call from David Blatner with a special illustration assignment. His idea was to create a timeline, in the form of a game board – something attendees could follow through the milestones of recent design history. It was all part of celebrating the […]