Topics include email design, Photoshop type effects, converting PDFs to InDesign, and more [CreativePro]() Hi {NAME}, The [July 2024 issue of CreativePro Magazine (#33)]( is now available! [CreativePro Magazine Issue 33: Email Design]( CreativePro Magazine is an exclusive benefit for [CreativePro members](. JULY SPECIAL Get $15 off* one year of CreativePro membership with discount code: JULY24 [BECOME A MEMBER]() *Offer is available for new members only through the month of June [Resource of the Month](=) [Illustrator Downloadable: Lush Leaves Pattern Set](=) [Illustrator Downloadable:](=) [Lush Leaves Pattern Set](=) Human eyes love the color green. Not only does it evoke ideas of new life, growth, and freshness to us, itâs also been shown to make us feel more calm and relaxed, and lower stress. So, why not add a touch of tranquility to your next design with the Lush Leaves Pattern set? The downloadable file includes six vector patterns and accompanying color swatches. Want to use these patterns in Photoshop or InDesign? No problem! Open the file in Illustrator and add them to a Creative Cloud Library. Then, you can place them into Photoshop or InDesign files and scale them to any size with no loss of quality. [LEARN MORE](=) FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF Mike Rankin Iâm not an âInbox Zeroâ person, though I hope to be when I grow up. Like most people, I get a ton of email in multiple accounts every day. Much of it I leave unopened. The bulk of what I receive gets a cursory glance. (I still have to get back to that Nigerian prince about the million bucks he wants to transfer to my account.) Only a special few, maybe 5%, do I read from start to finish. I bet you have a similar experience. For email designers, the challenge is to make something that ends up in that last group, and that ainât easy. In order to consistently craft effective emails that engage peopleâand, most importantly, get them to take actionâyou need a plan based on proven techniques. And thatâs exactly what youâll find in this monthâs feature article by Pam Sparks. This piece is a companion to her article in issue 20 on email templates. Together, theyâll give you a strategic advantage in the battle to win the hearts, minds, and clicks of your email audience. Regardless of whether youâre designing for email, print, or the web, chances are youâre always on the lookout for some cool new ways of combining text and imagery. Nigel French has you covered, with a fresh batch of quick-and-easy Photoshop type effects. Best of all, theyâre nondestructive, so you can experiment and revise to your heartâs content. This past spring, Adobe released a beta version of InDesign that includes a feature for converting PDFs to InDesign files. Itâs been a long-standing feature request that seems like it might finally be coming to a screen near you. But no one knows if or when that will actually happenâor how well it will work when it does appear. In the meantime, we all have our work to do. If you have to reconstruct InDesign files from PDFs, you need another solution. In the past, weâve reviewed a couple of strong options: PDF2ID from Recosoft and PDFMarkz from Markzware. Both are great at what they do, but if you only need to perform conversions once in a great while, those tools may not be worth the investment. Fortunately, thereâs a new option in the form of LegUpTools, a low-cost, pay-as-you-go service for converting PDFs to InDesign documents. Keith Gilbert tried it out and shares his findings in the InReview. Iâm sure youâve heard the saying, âfake it till you make it.â Our last article is along the lines of âfake it till Adobe makes it.â In this case, âitâ is a dedicated feature for making tables in Illustrator. Jess Telmanik offers three viable workarounds for representing tabular data in Illustrator artwork. Our Resource of the Month is a Lush Leaves pattern set for Illustrator bursting with verdant vectors. Enjoy! [LEARN MORE]( [CreativePro Week 2024, July 8â12 in Washington, DC and online]() [CreativePro Week 2024](=) kicks off this coming Monday, July 8, and thereâs still time to join us! Canât make it in person? You can still experience the conference from the comfort of your own home or office with an [At-Home Pass](=). If you want to level up your InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and PowerPoint skills, design skills, you canât afford to miss out. [REGISTER](=) [Additional Members-Only Resources](=) [Downloadable Resources]( Download members-only templates, fonts, scripts, ebooks, design assets, cheat sheets, and more. [Discounts]( Save big on CreativePro [events]() and [books]( [Top Tips ebook collection]( A curated collection of essential InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator tips gathered together in three convenient ebooks [BECOME A MEMBER]() Copyright © 2023 CreativePro Network (CreativePro.com). All rights reserved. This email was sent to {EMAIL} . You can [Unsubscribe]( from this list (WARNING: you will no longer get emails from CreativePro Network, including receiving the free InDesign Tip of the Week, CreativePro Weekly, and other important news) CreativePro Network 14241 NE Woodinville Duvall Rd. #285 Woodinville, Washington 98072 United States (312) 252-1292