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Experienced InDesign users tend to like working in very tidy documents where objects are precisely sized and positioned on the page. And for some of us, there’s something unsatisfying about leaving a frame sitting at “messy” X and Y coordinates that include fractions of a point—even if it doesn’t make a visual difference in the final output. Mary Poppins would not appreciate her “practically perfect” size and position.

In this Photoshop how-to video, Steve Caplin demonstrates how to create an image entirely out of text. He starts by showing how to format your text to keep it legible and how to simplify your image so the text lies smoothly. Finally, Steve adds the Displace filter and tweaks the settings until he’s satisfied with the results. Subscribe to the CreativePro YouTube channel for more helpful design tips! Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me

Snippets is a monthly roundup of resources, news items, inspiration and fun for designers. Have a cool book, show, site, game, app, resource, etc. that you’d recommend to your designer friends? Send it to . Ever spent way too long hunting for the perfect ampersand or lowercase g? What a silly question. We’ve all done that! But maybe never again, thanks to Glyph Finder, a fun new Adobe Fonts side project.

Most designers I know open Keynote a few times a year, put together a pitch deck, export a PDF, and move on. And that makes sense. It’s presentation software, and the real creative work happens in the tools we identify with. If you spend some time poking around Keynote’s controls, however, a very different picture starts to emerge.

Now, look closely. Although the text on the yellow and red warnings looks similar, the yellow placeholder presents a Media Pending message whereas the red placeholder presents a Media Offline message. Neither is necessarily fatal, so take a breath and read on. In this article, I’ll explain the difference between these warnings and share steps for restoring your assets (told you it would be okay). The yellow warning placeholder in Premiere lets you know that your media is pending (Figure 1).

Use these five resources to boost your presentation design and production skills is_members_only_template: false is_members_only: true downloadable_content: access_level: no membership This article appears in Issue 57 of CreativePro Magazine.

In this InDesign how-to video, Laurie Ruhlin demonstrates how to prevent full-page photographs from blocking headers and footers. Instead of manually bringing text to the front on every page, she creates a dedicated footer layer at the top of the Layers panel on the parent page. This setup keeps your text automatically layered above any placed images while making sure it still updates whenever you change the master template.

In this short Photoshop video, Khara Plicanic demonstrates how the latest version has a command to instantly remove reflections and lens flare from your images. Photoshop can even isolate them to their own layer! Subscribe to the CreativePro YouTube channel for more helpful design tips! Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me

Valentina D’Efilippo Valentina D’Efilippo is is an award-winning designer, creative director, and author renowned for her ability to inspire, move, and connect people through data-driven experiences. She is speaking at the Design + Marketing Summit 2026, which takes place online September 14–15, 2026. We thought it would be fun to get to know her better with some Q&A. I’m a creative director, data designer and author.

I am not opposed to AI. I use it, I value it, and I can see where it belongs. But Adobe’s Generative Alt Text feature in InDesign crosses a line that should never be crossed in professional production software. The problem is not just that AI-generated alt text can be wrong, though it can be. The problem is that InDesign can insert or replace text inside a live production document without the user approving that specific change. That is not assistance. That is editing.