Julie Shaffer

May 31, 2024 | creativepro.com | Julie Shaffer

Home  /  Text  /  How to Apply Styles Quickly to Formatted Text in InDesign is now part of CreativePro.com! In this InDesign how-to video, Julie Shaffer shows how to take text with existing formatting—either from previous use in InDesign or from a Word Import—and assign current styles to it.

Apr 1, 2024 | creativepro.com | Julie Shaffer

This article appeared in Issue 30 of CreativePro Magazine. Let’s talk about Generative AI ethics. While ethical questions surrounding the tools themselves (content bias, plagiarism, legal ramifications, etc.) are crucially important and well documented, for this article, I’m talking the ethics of how we use AI for our projects—how we can leverage Generative AI responsibly in our messaging. When does Generative AI use cross the line into misleading or, worse, lying to your audience?

Feb 22, 2024 | creativepro.com | Julie Shaffer

Home  /  Images  /  How to Use Scripts to Place Files in an InDesign File is now part of CreativePro.com! In this InDesign how-to video, Julie Shaffer shows a couple of scripts that help place items into an InDesign file. The Place Multipage PDF script does just what it says—with just one click—and Image Catalog gives you a nice layout of images with filenames. The Merger script deftly combines a folder of InDesign files into one InDesign document.

Dec 27, 2023 | creativepro.com | Julie Shaffer

Home  /  Text  /  How to Create Cascading Object Styles in InDesign is now part of CreativePro.com! In this “Three Minutes Max” InDesign video, Julie Shaffer shows off a trick to create cascading objects styles, sort of. By using paragraph shading, she is able to make a paragraph style with Next Style attributes to change the look of each subsequent text frame. As a bonus, she also shows a quick way to manipulate multiple frames at once and even change the look of numbers in a list.

Apr 24, 2023 | creativepro.com | Julie Shaffer |Long Documents

This article appeared in Issue 19 of CreativePro Magazine. InDesign’s Layers panel can be your secret weapon in the battle to produce great documents with maximum flexibility and efficiency. This often-underused panel can do more than simply organize pieces of your document. You can use it to improve your workflow and overcome all sorts of production challenges. In this article, we’ll review some of the basics of using layers, as well as techniques for unlocking their full power. . . . .