April, 2016 | CreativePro Network

Inspirational InDesign Projects on Behance

Need ideas and inspiration for your next project? A visit to Behance is like pulling back the curtains on a vast Universe of Awesome.

Working With Dynamic Symbols in Adobe Illustrator

Symbols have always been a powerful tool in Adobe Illustrator. With symbols, you can easily create elements that repeat throughout your artwork and most importantly, update them with the click of a button. The 2015 release of Adobe Illustrator CC adds new life to symbols by allowing users to modify elements of a symbol instance […]

Free Lynda.com Video: Universal Principles of Design

Learn the most important concepts and techniques in design, one week at a time.

20 Great Free Fonts

Two words that bring creative pros rushing over with tongues wagging are “free” and “fonts.” And if they appear in a sentence as “free fonts,” then you’ve got yourself a dynamic duo to entice any designer. Well, assuming those fonts are of decent quality and from a reputable source. I’ve used my typographical prowess (read: […]

PePcon Speaker Dossier: Diane Burns, the Animations Super Star

In the PePcon Speaker Dossier series we’re getting up close and personal with some of the coolest people on the planet: the print, PDF, and digital publishing gurus who’ll be the speakers at the conference! You’ve read their books, seen their videos, and liked their Facebook posts, now you can get to know them a little more […]

Troubleshooting Adobe Creative Cloud Services

In my previous posting, Troubleshooting the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App, I provided some instructions for downloading the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app, and understanding how to install and uninstall Adobe apps using the desktop app. The Creative Cloud desktop app also provides access to some of the services which are part of a Creative Cloud […]

CreativePro Conference Speaker Spotlight: Sharon Steuer, the Zen Artist

Welcome to our new series of posts called Speaker Spotlight, designed to highlight each of our upcoming CreativePro Conference speakers. We’ve assembled a dream team roster of Photoshop and Illustrator gurus, and thought you’d like get to know what makes them tick, why they’re passionate about what they do, and what you can expect to learn from them at […]

Live Preflight Tips for Publish Online

When creating InDesign documents for print, I’ve been recommending the use of Live Preflight since InDesign CS4, when the feature was introduced. So when I started making documents for Publish Online, naturally I created a custom Live Preflight Profile to check them as well. Here’s why. To Detect Overset Text and Other Common Text Errors First, I […]