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Sandee Cohen
Sandee Cohen is a New York City-based instructor and corporate trainer in a wide variety of graphic programs, especially the Adobe products including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, ImageReady and Acrobat. She also trains in QuarkXpress, Macromedia FreeHand, and Macromedia Fireworks. She has been an instructor for New School University, Cooper Union, Pratt, and School of Visual Arts. She is a frequent speaker for various events such as the InDesign, Photoshop, and Web Design conferences. She has also been a speaker for Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and PhotoPlus conferences. She is the
author of ten versions of the Visual Quickstart Guides for FreeHand, Fireworks, and InDesign.
Review: Five InDesign Plug-Ins
Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen Jamie McKee on February 2, 2007
Adobe InDesign has a lot of features, but for some specific tools, you need a plug-in. These five plug-ins, with prices from free to $100, will help you prepare print files, share styles, and more.
Review: Quark Interactive Designer 1.0
Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on November 19, 2006
A long quest for a simple, easy-to-learn Flash program is over. Or is it?
QuarkXPress 7: An InDesign Expert Weighs In
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on May 24, 2006
On May 23, Quark held an all-day event to celebrate the launch of QuarkXPress 7, the new version of the flagship page-layout program. Sandee Cohen brings back this surprising report on the software and the company. Hear who she says is winning the page-layout game.
Gift Guide 2005, Part II
Features: Written by Amanda Webber Andrew Shalat Terri Stone Gene Gable Pariah Burke Sandee Cohen on December 9, 2005
Still searching for that perfect gift? Then check out this, the second installment of our annual parade of presents.
Gift Guide 2005
Features: Written by Amanda Webber Andrew Shalat Gene Gable Pariah Burke Sandee Cohen on December 7, 2005
Ah, the holidays. Time for love, laughter, friends, family, and the frantic search for a present that pleases the recipient while it shows how cool you are. Relax! In this, part 1 of our annual gift guide, we recommend gifts every creative pro (even you!) will love.
The 2004 Creativepro.com Gift Guide
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen Bruce Fraser Sharon Steuer Ben Long Brian P. Lawler Eric J. Adams Pamela Pfiffner John D. Berry Molly W. Joss Susan Glinert Stevens on December 8, 2004
Here it is: our third gift guide for creative people. We asked our regular contributors what they'd like to give -- or receive -- for the holidays this year. Their answers may surprise you.
The Digital Dish: Making Headlines, Not Setting Them
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on September 23, 2004
It's not often that typography becomes front-page news. So any publisher (regardless of political persuasion) had to be intrigued by the investigation into allegedly forged documents received by CBS News. Here, Sandee Cohen talks to Adobe type expert Thomas Phinney for his take on the situation (and what he told "The Washington Post").
The Digital Dish: Plugging PageMaker into InDesign
Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on April 13, 2004
Loyal PageMaker fans shed a tear when Adobe announced it was discontinuing the application. But PageMaker lives on as a set of plug-ins for InDesign. What do you get? Sandee Cohen takes a look.
The Digital Dish: Best Practices for Page Layouts
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on February 10, 2004
Page-layout applications let you perform miracles. But you'll undermine its derring do if you ignore simple mistakes like using unnamed colors or keeping a cluttered pasteboard. Here's a good reminder about what to do and not to do when making pages.
InDesign CS: Adobe Ups the Ante Once Again
Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on December 16, 2003
Page layout these days is a high-stakes poker game full of bidding, bluffing, and raking in the chips. With the release of InDesign CS, Adobe adds new features that may make users of other programs throw in their cards. Should you join the game? Sandee Cohen has the answer in her review.
Creative Gifts for Creative People: The 2003 Holiday Gift Guide
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen Sharon Steuer Brian P. Lawler Eric J. Adams George Penston John D. Berry Susan Glinert Stevens David Morgenstern Gene Gable on December 8, 2003
Looking for imaginative gift ideas for the creative professional on your list? Creativepro.com's editors are here to help, with creative suggestions for all.
Illustrator CS: Adobe Squeezes in More for Designers
Reviews: Written by Sandee Cohen on December 2, 2003
Now in its 11th version, Adobe Illustrator is already jam-packed with features. But Illustrator CS manages to add new drawing and design tools. Is it enough? Sandee Cohen reviews the latest.
Adobe Creative Suite: An All-Star Line-up
Features: Written by David Blatner Sandee Cohen Bruce Fraser Sharon Steuer Pamela Pfiffner Glenn Fleishman on October 7, 2003
The new Adobe Creative Suite integrates Adobe's graphics applications into a workflow that addresses the needs of nearly every creative professional, from inspiration through execution, from print to Web. Here's a quick look at Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive from creativepro.com's own all-star line up of experts. Plus, a PDF analysis and a Version Cue preview.
The Digital Dish: Going Bi-Platform
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on September 16, 2003
As a dyed-in-the-wool Mac person, Sandee Cohen has regarded Windows with some disdain. Now she has a confession to make: She actually likes Windows. Here she tells you why.
The Digital Dish: Looking for QuarkXPress 6
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on January 20, 2003
Now that Quark and Apple are working together to bring a Mac OS X-native version of QuarkXPress to market, the recent Macworld Expo in San Francisco was an opportune time and place to give a progress report. But while Quark was missing from center stage, news did leak out. Sandee Cohen was there to report on XPress 6 and other items of interest to creative professionals.
2002: The Creative Year in Review
Features: Written by David Blatner Sandee Cohen Bruce Fraser Sharon Steuer Sean Wagstaff Brian P. Lawler Eric J. Adams Pamela Pfiffner George Penston Sonja Schenk Susan Glinert Stevens David Morgenstern on December 31, 2002
What kind of year was 2002 for creative professionals? The staff and contributors of creativepro.com reflect on the year that's been and the year that's about to be.
The Creativepro.com Holiday Gift Guide
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen Sharon Steuer Eric J. Adams Pamela Pfiffner Sonja Schenk Susan Glinert Stevens David Morgenstern on December 3, 2002
In our first-ever gift guide, creativepro.com's editors and contributors let you in on the gifts they'll be giving - and hope to be receiving -- this holiday season. From software to hardware, from gadgets to books, we've got just what you want.
The Digital Dish: Find/Change Power Techniques in XPress and InDesign
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on October 14, 2002
If you think that Find/Change commands in page-layout programs are just a step above word processing, think again. The replace controls in QuarkXPress and InDesign, when used in conjunction with style sheets, can streamline production in ways you didn't think possible. This diabolically clever technique shows how.
Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class: Making Secure Interactive PDFs
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen Bjorn Akselsen on September 24, 2002
Adobe Acrobat makes it easy to add interactivity to documents that can then be used in a variety of ways and distributed across the Web, in email, and other media. In this chapter from "Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class: Interactivity and Multimedia for PDF" you'll learn about how to make your files secure for distribution by adding levels of password protection and other security schemes.
The Digital Dish: From Fireworks to Flash and Back
Features: Written by Sandee Cohen on May 20, 2002
Fireworks takes care of the bitmap images while Flash handles the vector graphics and animation controls. You can easily import native Fireworks files. However, there are some special round-trip editing techniques that make the duo a perfect combination.