September, 2015 | CreativePro Network

Free Lynda.com Videos: Using InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator Together

No program can do it all—and that’s a good thing. Can you imagine one application with all the tools you’d ever need for creating layouts, working with images, drawing illustrations, etc? You’d spend half your day wading through hundreds of menus and panels. And developing such an application would be a nightmare. We’re much better […]

Vexed by Hex Web Colors? RGB is OK!

If you’re a photographer, videographer, or designer you probably think of color in RGB values such as 71,181,108. If you’re a print designer, you may have learned how to see color in CMYK values. But every web designer is taught to enter colors in hexadecimal values like #47B56C, which is like an alien language compared to the […]

A Clever Color Combo Calendar

Using the color-picking and theme-creating tools available from Adobe and elsewhere is often the quickest approach to building a project color palette. But sometimes you might want a low-tech, tactile solution instead. The 2016 Color Swatch Calendar by designer Peter von Freyhold is a great for picking and creating color themes, with the added bonus […]

Copying Link Info

If there’s one thing I like even better than sharing tips and tricks in the InDesign Tip of the Week email, it’s getting a response from someone with an even better tip. And that’s what happened last week when I got this email from Mary Posner about the tip I sent out on copying a file path from […]

New Contest! The Transform Panel Mystery

Hey folks, it’s time for another InDesign mystery that you can solve for a chance to win an awesome prize! Here’s the question: In the screenshot below, the image is selected. Why are there + signs next to the X and Y values in the Transform panel and what do they mean? Once you know the […]

Why You Can’t Trust Acrobat’s Separation Preview

Here’s the problem: When you open a PDF in Acrobat, then click on Output Preview, and then check the colors in your document, you may (or may not!) get a realistic reading of your document’s CMYK inks. And this is never more obvious or frustrating than when you’re checking something as simple as black text. […]

Art and Design Inspired by Mexico

Happy Mexican Independence Day!! What’s that I hear you saying? “It’s not even close to Cinco de Mayo, yet, Erica.” If that was you arguing with me, let me set the record straight. Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) is not Mexican Independence Day. Different battle, different enemy. September 16th is when Mexico celebrates its independence […]

Tip of the Week: Copying File Paths from the Links Panel

This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on September 10, 2015. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets and CreativePro, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll all the […]

Exploring OpenType Pro Fonts, Part 1

OpenType fonts may include an expanded group of characters useful for the typographic variation with features like Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Ordinals, Swashes, Titling & Contextual Alternates, All Small Caps, Tabular or Proportional Figures, etc. Unfortunately, these rich extended character sets are ignored or misunderstood by many users. So let’s take a close-up look at the features of […]