Sandee Cohen

Review: Five InDesign Plug-Ins

Adobe InDesign has a lot of features, but for some specific tools, you need a plug-in. These five plug-ins, with prices from free to $100, will help you prepare print files, share styles, and more.

Review: Quark Interactive Designer 1.0

A long quest for a simple, easy-to-learn Flash program is over. Or is it?

QuarkXPress 7: An InDesign Expert Weighs In

On May 23, Quark held an all-day event to celebrate the launch of QuarkXPress 7, the new version of the flagship page-layout program. Sandee Cohen brings back this surprising report on the software and the company. Hear who she says is winning the page-layout game.

Gift Guide 2005, Part II

Still searching for that perfect gift? Then check out this, the second installment of our annual parade of presents.

Gift Guide 2005

Ah, the holidays. Time for love, laughter, friends, family, and the frantic search for a present that pleases the recipient while it shows how cool you are. Relax! In this, part 1 of our annual gift guide, we recommend gifts every creative pro (even you!) will love.

The 2004 Creativepro.com Gift Guide

Here it is: our third gift guide for creative people. We asked our regular contributors what they'd like to give -- or receive -- for the holidays this year. Their answers may surprise you.

The Digital Dish: Making Headlines, Not Setting Them

It's not often that typography becomes front-page news. So any publisher (regardless of political persuasion) had to be intrigued by the investigation into allegedly forged documents received by CBS News. Here, Sandee Cohen talks to Adobe type expert Thomas Phinney for his take on the situation (and what he told "The Washington Post").

The Digital Dish: Plugging PageMaker into InDesign

Loyal PageMaker fans shed a tear when Adobe announced it was discontinuing the application. But PageMaker lives on as a set of plug-ins for InDesign. What do you get? Sandee Cohen takes a look.

The Digital Dish: Best Practices for Page Layouts

Page-layout applications let you perform miracles. But you'll undermine its derring do if you ignore simple mistakes like using unnamed colors or keeping a cluttered pasteboard. Here's a good reminder about what to do and not to do when making pages.

InDesign CS: Adobe Ups the Ante Once Again

Page layout these days is a high-stakes poker game full of bidding, bluffing, and raking in the chips. With the release of InDesign CS, Adobe adds new features that may make users of other programs throw in their cards. Should you join the game? Sandee Cohen has the answer in her review.

Creative Gifts for Creative People: The 2003 Holiday Gift Guide

Looking for imaginative gift ideas for the creative professional on your list? Creativepro.com's editors are here to help, with creative suggestions for all.

Illustrator CS: Adobe Squeezes in More for Designers

Now in its 11th version, Adobe Illustrator is already jam-packed with features. But Illustrator CS manages to add new drawing and design tools. Is it enough? Sandee Cohen reviews the latest.

Adobe Creative Suite: An All-Star Line-up

The new Adobe Creative Suite integrates Adobe's graphics applications into a workflow that addresses the needs of nearly every creative professional, from inspiration through execution, from print to Web. Here's a quick look at Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive from creativepro.com's own all-star line up of experts. Plus, a PDF analysis and a Version Cue preview.

The Digital Dish: Going Bi-Platform

As a dyed-in-the-wool Mac person, Sandee Cohen has regarded Windows with some disdain. Now she has a confession to make: She actually likes Windows. Here she tells you why.

The Digital Dish: Looking for QuarkXPress 6

Now that Quark and Apple are working together to bring a Mac OS X-native version of QuarkXPress to market, the recent Macworld Expo in San Francisco was an opportune time and place to give a progress report. But while Quark was missing from center stage, news did leak out. Sandee Cohen was there to report on XPress 6 and other items of interest to creative professionals.

2002: The Creative Year in Review

What kind of year was 2002 for creative professionals? The staff and contributors of creativepro.com reflect on the year that's been and the year that's about to be.

The Creativepro.com Holiday Gift Guide

In our first-ever gift guide, creativepro.com's editors and contributors let you in on the gifts they'll be giving - and hope to be receiving -- this holiday season. From software to hardware, from gadgets to books, we've got just what you want.

The Digital Dish: Find/Change Power Techniques in XPress and InDesign

If you think that Find/Change commands in page-layout programs are just a step above word processing, think again. The replace controls in QuarkXPress and InDesign, when used in conjunction with style sheets, can streamline production in ways you didn't think possible. This diabolically clever technique shows how.

Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class: Making Secure Interactive PDFs

Adobe Acrobat makes it easy to add interactivity to documents that can then be used in a variety of ways and distributed across the Web, in email, and other media. In this chapter from "Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class: Interactivity and Multimedia for PDF" you'll learn about how to make your files secure for distribution by adding levels of password protection and other security schemes.

The Digital Dish: From Fireworks to Flash and Back

Fireworks takes care of the bitmap images while Flash handles the vector graphics and animation controls. You can easily import native Fireworks files. However, there are some special round-trip editing techniques that make the duo a perfect combination.