Category: Creative Professional

You prob­a­baly already know that you can type into just about any of InDesign’s mea­sure­ment fields a val­ue based on any mea­sure­ment sys­tem InDesign under­stands. For instance, if the doc­u­ment uses …

When lay­ing out por­traits or head­shots close togeth­er, such as in a news­pa­per or mag­a­zine arti­cle or pub­li­ca­tions like mem­ber­ship direc­to­ries and year­books, the gold­en rule is that all pho­to subjects’ …

A trio of (occa­sion­al­ly use­ful) tips for work­ing with mea­sure­ment fields to resize and trans­form type, frames, and oth­er objects. Resize, Move, and Transform by Percentage Ever find your­self in …

In Creative Suite 2 Adobe intro­duced the Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ASE) file for­mat. With it, you can cre­ate cus­tom swatch col­ors in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, and import them into the …

A lot of design­ers are mak­ing the move from QuarkXPress to Adobe’s InDesign. But if you’re a pro­fi­cient QuarkXPress user, some fea­tures of InDesign seem coun­ter­in­tu­itive, con­fus­ing and down­right frus­trat­ing. Below, …

What is a .JPF file? JPF is the file exten­sion for a JPEG 2000 file, which, at its most basic, is the next gen­er­a­tion of JPEG (aka JPG). The JPEG file format …

Writing effec­tive, pro­fes­sion­al client con­tracts is one of the top five most request­ed and most con­fus­ing busi­ness tasks fac­ing graph­ic design­ers, web design­ers, and oth­er cre­atives today. Designer Contracts is …