The CreativePro Podcast
Join the CreativePro team for fun and insightful discussions about our favorite tools and technologies: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint, Acrobat, print, digital publishing, presentation design, accessibility, AI, and more!
Episodes
In this episode of the CreativePro Podcast, David Blatner and Theresa Jackson pull back the curtain on how the CreativePro Week 2026 agenda came together for this summer's event in Nashville. Recorded in conjunction with the agenda launch, the conversation offers a timely look at the decisions shaping the program.
If you've ever attended CreativePro Week and felt ...
Theresa Jackson and Mike Rankin kick off the new year by reflecting on 2025 before looking ahead to 2026. They share their thoughts on design trends for 2026, framed less as visual styles and more as shifts in behavior and mindset. They also react to the Pantone Color of the Year, Cloud Dancer, and what it suggests about the current cultural mood.
AI enters the di...
Theresa Jackson kicks off this episode of the CreativePro Podcast by digging into one of the most common frustrations for creative teams: review and approval chaos. She's joined by Mike McHugh from PageProof. Listeners are invited to learn alongside Theresa as she asks the questions many teams wrestle with every day. Together, they unpack why creative reviews break down, why email and ad-hoc tools fai...
Mike Parkinson and Jody Wissing join the CreativePro Podcast for a candid conversation about their unexpected paths into presentation design. They explain that presentation design isn't what most people think it is. It's not about making pretty slides. It's about understanding and caring about the content well enough to turn it into a story. They walk through their favorite features for building slide...
David Blatner and Theresa Jackson return from Adobe MAX 2025 with stories, insights, and a few surprises. They recap the biggest announcements, their favorite new features, and the feeling of creative inspiration that had nothing to do with Adobe. From AI showing up in nearly every app to Firefly credits, new collaboration tools, and what it all means for creative professionals, they break down the mo...
During Adobe MAX, Canva dropped a bombshell announcement: the entire Affinity suite—Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher—would be free forever. In this episode, David Blatner, Theresa Jackson, and Mike Rankin share their reactions to the news and unpack what it means for creative professionals.
They discuss how Canva's move shakes up the design software landsca...
InDesign 2026 is here—and so are David and Anne-Marie!
In this episode of The CreativePro Podcast, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción bring back InDesign Secrets and dig into the newest release of Adobe InDesign (v21). They explore what's fresh, and what's just plain weird. From the new Flex Layout feature to live text editing in the...
In this episode, Amy Balliett and Mark Heaps sit down for an honest conversation about artificial intelligence and what it means for creative professionals. They share how AI is showing up in their work today, the opportunities it creates, and the worries it raises about originality, ethics, and the future of design.
Along the way, you'll hear candid reflections o...
In this episode, Theresa Jackson and Mike Rankin go behind the scenes at CreativePro. They share how their similar career beginnings in prepress connected them at their first meeting many years ago, and how they now share overlapping roles at CreativePro. You'll hear from Mike about the CreativePro Magazine evolution from InDesign-only coverage to a broader creative focus, and other changes that make ...
InDesignSecrets is now the CreativePro podcast! Join David Blatner and Theresa Jackson and review the past 20 years of podcasting, as well as what to expect next!
Links and Info:
- Our podcast started in late 2005!
- Trivia: Did you know our podcas...
Topics:
- Big news about podcast name
- Our favorite obscure features
- Fun obscure feature "spelling bee" game
- Obscure Feature: Positional Form
Friendly Alien:
- Just for fun: Bad Advice (and Good Lessons)
- Interview with Marcus Radich from PageProof
- Obscure feature: Show Transparency Grid
Links:
Bad Advice
Interview with PageProof:
News:
- Adobe engineers did an Ask Us Anything 24-hour marathon on...
Topics:
- Great lessons from the archives (that you may have missed)
- First look at InDesign 20.3
- Obscure Feature: Delete All Guides on Spread
Sponsor:
PageProof is a simple-to-use but powerful online proofing platform that makes giving...
* DOIE: Dept. of InDesign Efficiency
* Obscure Feature: Clear Rotation
* News
Links:
Dept. of InDesign Efficiency
- 10 Essential Tips for Using Quick Apply in InDesign
- Activate Last Used Field Shortcut
- Apply Leading to Entire Paragraphs: What Causes Inconsistent Leading and How to Fix It
- How to Start Using InDesign Scripts
- How-to Create a Custom Workspace
- The weird "Place Gun Frame" trick: Applying an Object Style when Plac...
Topics:
- The INDDC format: good and bad
- Interview with Venngage CEO Eugene Woo
- Obscure Feature: Reset Preferences on Quit
Links:
Cloud Docs:
Includes:
- Favorite font tricks
- Interview with Theresa Jackson
- InDesign 20.1
- Obscure feature: Match Pasteboard to Theme Color
News:
- 20.1 is in release rollout
- multi-find/change is now free
- Old (but still relevant!) InDesign Magazine articles, now on site:
- Designing Photo Albums in InDesign by Khara Plicanic
- Getting Started with GREP Styles in InDesign by Steve Caplin
- Working in Microsoft Word by Jamie McKee
- ...
Topics:
- Anchored Objects
- Interview with Marcus Radich, PageProof
- Obscure Feature: Standard Carriage Return
Links:
Marcus Radich, from PageProof.com
Anchored Objects:
- Working with Anchored Objects in InDesign
- How to Anchor a Graphic to Text (Video Tutorial)
- Anchoring Graphics Between Paragraphs
- Wrapping Text Around an Anchored Object
- Drag and Drop Anchored Objects
Coming in 2025:
News:
- CreativePro Week 2025 in Phoenix: registration is open
- CreativePro online summits
- The Design + Accessibility Summit
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