May, 2020 | CreativePro Network

CreativePro Video: Fix Distorted Perspective in Lightroom

In this week’s CreativePro video, Nigel French shows a quick way to adjust issues of distorted perspective using Lightroom. This tip corrects issues experienced when shooting tall buildings from the ground and Nigel even tries to “fix” one particular historic structure. This clip comes from Nigel’s “Lightroom for Designers” session at CreativePro Week 2019. New […]

Power Up With Object Styles

This article appeared in Issue 133 of InDesign Magazine. Take charge of your layouts with one of the most powerful—and underused—features in InDesign If I could create “styles” for all the repetitive tasks in my daily life, I’d welcome the tiny bit of extra work up front that would end up saving me an enormous amount of […]

Creating Automatic Crop Marks and Bleed in Photoshop

One of the most abidingly popular features on CreativePro is Chad Chelius’s excellent piece on creating crop marks in Photoshop. But why should you have to go through the process every time, when you can record it once as a Photoshop Action and then replay it with a keystroke? Making an Action to create crop […]

Accessibility and Pantone Tools Added to Adobe Color

Two new tools have been added to Adobe Color services this year: Just this month, a new feature was added to help identify and correct potential problems between colors when viewed by people with color blindness. The other tool lets you create a Pantone color theme, based on the colors in an existing color theme […]

InDesign How-to Video: Make a Custom Line That Moves Along With Text

In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Erica Gamet shows how to create a custom line that travels along with text in InDesign. Whether you want a simple underline, a colored box for your headline to sit in, or even a banner with rounded ends, the secret is to use paragraph rules. Check out new tutorials every […]

Don’t Commit the Type Crime of Applying Faux Italic in Microsoft Word

In an earlier essay on Typographic Discipline I discussed apostrophes and quotation marks. Those are important, and they are the most common typographic errors I see every day. In this post I want to bring to your attention another common typographic atrocity that is allowed (some would say encouraged) by Microsoft Word, namely, the ability to […]

More Fonts Are Being Retired from Creative Cloud

Heads up, folks. On June 15, 2020 a number of fonts will be retired from Adobe’s Creative Cloud. In total, about 50 families/700 fonts from the foundries Font Bureau and Carter & Cone will no longer be available to sync. You can find more details in this post on the Adobe Support Community site. It’s not the first time Adobe Fonts […]

CreativePro Video: Quick Composites in Photoshop

In this week’s CreativePro video, Colin Smith demos a couple of quick tips for compositing images in Photoshop. Using masks, gradients, and blending effects, he shows how easy it is to blend images. This clip comes from Colin’s “Five Delicious Photoshop Recipes” session at CreativePro Week 2019. New videos every other Tuesday on our CreativePro […]