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Alan Gilbertson is a freelance creative director, designer and writer living on the Florida Sun Coast near Tampa Bay. His first love is book design, closely followed by creative workflow efficiency, with which he is mildly obsessed.

He is an Adobe Community Expert who co-chairs the LA InDesign User Group (the only InDesign user group outside of Europe) and writes for CreativePro.com and CreativePro Magazine. You can find him on the Adobe Community forums for InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, and Substance 3D Stager; Behance, LinkedIn and (rarely) X (@gngcreative).

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Are contests an effective way to gauge the quality of your writing?
May 4, 2012
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What qualities should a good metaphor have?
May 4, 2012
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Is this excerpt's style too matter-of-fact?
Oct 28, 2011
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Cheap ways a young person can get paper books printed/bound from their manuscript? (Please incl sample costs)
Oct 25, 2011
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Front-matter or back-matter?
Dec 16, 2011
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Which traditional presses publish poetry?
Oct 24, 2011
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Do any ePublishing systems honor fixed poetry formatting?
Oct 24, 2011
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Scientific Citation
Dec 16, 2011
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Dealing with personal trauma in writing
Dec 16, 2011
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Return to section context after a subsection
Dec 16, 2011
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How do I learn to be creative?
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Difference between kerning vs letter spacing?
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What kind of black should I use when designing for CMYK print?
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How to make an adjustment layer to affect only one layer or one group of layers in Photoshop?
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What is so good about Helvetica?