InDesign Tips

INFOGRAPHIC: The Language of Typography

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Serifs, strokes, and swashes. This week’s infographic pick, posted by Janie Klieve on Canva, takes us into the world of typography with an illustrated overview of everything from typeface categories and styles to positioning and spacing to the parts of letters. If you’re a designer, this colorful ...

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Color Therapy

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Selecting color for a new project can be overwhelming, with infinite possibilities to consider and new tools to try, like the Color Theme tool in Adobe’s latest release of InDesign CC. The upgrade adds Adobe Cloud sharing capabilities to the Color Theme tool, ...

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InDesign CC Tip: Publish Online, Part 1

Publish Online is a new feature that could be a game changer! It allows you to publish your InDesign documents online for others to view on multiple platforms. Your current InDesign document gets published out to an Adobe server, which then provides you with ...

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InDesign CC Tip: Using Paragraph Shading

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InDesign CC 2015 has a great new feature called Paragraph Shading. Having the ability to add shading (color) behind a paragraph not only is helpful in editorial workflows to indicate text that needs to be edited or is new, for example, but published documents ...

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Welcome to the New Adobe DPS

This week Adobe debuted the next generation of its digital publishing application, Adobe Digital Publishing Solution. As part of its announcement, it opened public access to the beta program for the product, allowing everyone to begin exploring the tool immediately. Although Adobe is ...

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Great Stuff: Adobe CC 2015

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Photo: Adobe It’s become pretty much standard that every June we anxiously await the latest product announcements from Adobe—and this year, it didn’t disappoint, announcing a number of new product updates. Since our focus is on publishing, we generally are most interested ...

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InDesign CC Tip: Custom Glyph Sets

Glyph is a term that encompasses the various elements of a typeface, including letters, characters, and alternative letter forms for things like ligatures and swashes. Creating a custom glyph set is a way to save and organize glyphs you commonly use, ...

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Tools for Visual Thinking

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Looking at a diagram, floor plan, flow chart, or map helps us to quickly grasp an idea. When we need to communicate a complex concept, the process of drawing it out helps us clarify our thinking, and the resulting drawing ...

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