Tag Archive for: indesign

Easy Text Clean Up with GREP in Find/Change

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If text cleanup is a regular part of your InDesign work, and you spend much of your day handling long documents, inconsistent copy, or late-stage edits, this session is for you. When text-heavy projects pile up, manual fixes slow everything down and increase the risk of errors.

In this session, Erica Gamet focuses on a pattern-based approach to text cleanup inside InDesign, helping you work with greater control and consistency as documents grow more complex. The emphasis is on efficiency, accuracy, and repeatable workflows that hold up under real production pressure.

You will learn how to:

  • Recognize when pattern-based text cleanup is the right approach for complex documents
  • Clean up inconsistencies introduced by imported Word or Google Docs content
  • Tackle repetitive formatting problems that appear across long or multi-section layouts
  • Handle text corrections that need to be applied consistently across an entire document

Illustrator for InDesign Users: You’ve Got This

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You love InDesign: It makes sense. It behaves! But Illustrator? That’s usually a “hold your breath and click carefully” situation. In this session, Tony Harmer helps InDesign power-users feel far more at home inside Illustrator.

You’ll learn how to navigate Illustrator with confidence, spot the features that save time, and stop treating it like a mysterious side quest you only enter under duress.

You will learn how to:

  • Recognize when Illustrator is the better tool before things get messy in InDesign
  • Navigate Illustrator using concepts that already make sense to you
  • Prepare and clean up vector artwork so it behaves predictably in layouts
  • Export individual vector assets quickly and efficiently for real-world use
  • Shift your mindset from “I’ll get through this,” to “I get to do this!”

Embracing a Punk Rock Attitude for Modern Design

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You can design stronger, clearer work by questioning assumptions and designing with intent. In this session, Michael Mondragon shares a mindset-driven approach to modern design rooted in clarity, purpose, and judgment.

Using a “punk rock” attitude as a metaphor—not a visual style!—Michael challenges autopilot thinking, over-templated solutions, and trend-chasing. The focus is on making deliberate design decisions that serve the message, not the tool, template, or shortcut.

This session helps designers push back on defaults, trust their creative instincts, and create work that communicates more clearly, confidently, and memorably in today’s fast, AI-assisted design landscape.

You will learn to:

  • Make intentional typography choices and find the right fonts
  • Make non-destructive image enhancements in Photoshop
  • Create textures from your own images
  • Style and modify letter forms in Illustrator
  • Bring it all together in InDesign

Workflows for InDesign and Adobe Express

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Adobe Express isn’t a replacement for InDesign, but it can be a powerful extension of your workflow. In this session, Bart Van de Wiele shows when using Adobe Express makes sense for social, internal communications, and marketing handoffs—and when it doesn’t. You’ll see real examples of how Express fits into professional design workflows, especially when stakeholders need access to branded layouts without opening InDesign.

Bart walks through how to move designs between InDesign and Express in both directions, explaining the steps, limitations, and best practices along the way. Learn what translates cleanly, what requires adjustment, and how to prepare files so templates stay on-brand and easy to use. This session focuses on practical workflows, realistic expectations, and smart setup choices that help InDesign users collaborate confidently with teams who don’t design for a living.

You will learn:

  • Translate brand styles, fonts, and layouts between InDesign and Express
  • Move designs from Express back into InDesign when needed
  • Set realistic expectations around current limitations and workarounds
  • Build repeatable workflows that support collaboration without sacrificing quality

Creative Cloud Mix Tape

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Kick off CreativePro Week with a high-energy, music-themed morning keynote. Chris riffs on the idea of creative cross-training by mixing InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects (and more!) in ways you wouldn’t expect. Think fast-paced demos, playful surprises, and a healthy dose of rock-and-roll attitude.

Each segment spins a new challenge and a new app, intentionally breaking “rules” about what each tool is supposed to be used for. The result is part performance, and part creative jam session, reminding you that experimentation is often where the most interesting ideas start.

Come for the entertainment. Stay for the shift in mindset. Leave with fresh inspiration to remix your own Creative Cloud workflows—no matter which apps you use every day.

Mix tape mystery tracks:

  • Turn it up: live spins, creative curveballs, and a rock-and-roll remix mindset from the first beat
  • Apps in the mix: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, and Express (and more)
  • Creative moves on deck: photo editing, web graphics, video effects, 3D modeling, and motion experiments
  • Rule-bending workflows: familiar apps pushed into unfamiliar territory

Adobe Sponsored Breakfast Session: Breakfast with the Builders

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This session is sponsored by Adobe.

Kickstart your week with the Adobe team in a lively town hall environment and meet the minds behind your favorite creative tools, see the latest breakthroughs in action, meet the Adobe team members, preview new Illustrator and InDesign features, and learn about opportunities for connecting with the team throughout CreativePro Week.

Creative Wow!

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Come see and/or share amazing software demos from around the world! CreativeWow is an informal and fun lunchtime event where designers and developers can connect and find ways to make magic.*

Designers: Do you enjoy finding ways to become more efficient and productive? Do you like seeing amazing technology? Bring your lunch and see what cool things the devs have been up to!

Developers: Do you have a software challenge that you’ve been working on in your spare time? Or some feature, tool, or service that you’ve developed that is just so cool you have to share it? Come show it at the CreativeWow! event. The rules are simple: You have 5 minutes to fire up and demo your stuff in front of an audience of your peers. To sign up, contact David.

*Author and futurist Arthur C. Clark once wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

Wrangle Your Swatches

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Take your color workflows to the next level by mastering Adobe Illustrator’s Swatches, the most powerful tool for managing and organizing colors across your design projects.

While Illustrator offers the best functionality for swatch management, this session goes beyond just one app. We’ll also explore how swatches work in InDesign and Photoshop, comparing their strengths and limitations. Learn how to create, organize, and share color palettes efficiently across these three key applications, ensuring consistency in your designs from start to finish.

Learn how to save time, reduce mistakes, and collaborate more effectively with your team to maintain color consistency across projects. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started, you’ll walk away with actionable tips that make working with color a breeze.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Work faster by leveraging Illustrator’s Swatches panel and Global Color features
  • Organize swatches efficiently in Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign
  • Establish brand consistency across projects and applications
  • Share swatches across Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
  • Collaborate with team members for consistent color usage

Power Up Your Searches with InDesign’s Find/Change

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In this session, we will dive into InDesign’s Find/Change feature and take a step-by-step approach to investigate its often overlooked power. See how it can be your secret weapon for fixing problems with text, objects, colors, and more. And—since no one likes to do the same thing over and over—we’ll cover saving search queries so you can easily reuse them.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Clean up text quickly, whether it’s your own or imported into your document
  • Find and change objects based on their attributes
  • Use built-in queries for common searches, or save and share your own custom queries for easy re-use
  • Learn tricks for auto-formatting poorly styled text you’ve imported into your document and applying styles
  • Locate and apply colors by object type

Charts in InDesign

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Sooner or later, the time comes for every InDesign user when we need to create or insert charts into our documents. But sadly, even after all these years, Adobe hasn’t given us a way to do that natively with the program. Fortunately, in this session, Nolan Haims will take you on a deep dive into strategies for creating rich data reports in InDesign using tools you already have (or which you can easily obtain).

He’ll cover ways to create standard and non-standard charts, maintain design consistency, and even keep data updatable when needed.

Topics include:

  • Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF workflows for keeping data dynamic and editable
  • Maintaining accuracy with manually created charts
  • The pros and cons of Illustrator and other chart creation tools
  • Moving beyond bars and pies with more unique chart styles
  • Accessibility considerations and techniques