Our friends over at InDesign Secrets certainly have a knack for coming up with tips and tricks that you didn’t even know you needed! Here are a few recent tips that I’ve used and found extremely useful. Constrain Transformations Mike Rankin ...
READ MOREOK. I’ll admit it. I love InDesign. So much, in fact, that I’m reluctant to leave it when I’m working on a project, even when my alternatives are its sibling applications, Illustrator and Photoshop. Recently, I wanted to incorporate roughly ...
READ MOREHave you tried the new Color Theme tool in the Adobe InDesign CC 2014 October release? Grouped with the Eyedropper and Measure tools in the toolbar, it allows you to extract colors from selected areas, images, or objects in your InDesign document ...
READ MORETemplates, master pages, paragraph and character styles, object styles, and libraries are InDesign tools that simplify your workflow and help you create InDesign files that are consistent and easy to change. A new feature in the InDesign CC 2014 update, color groups, adds to this ...
READ MOREA new feature in InDesign CC 2014 is the ability to drag and drop table rows and columns from one position to another within the same table. You no longer have to copy/cut and paste content into a new row or column. ...
READ MOREEvery project poses new challenges to solve problems while maintaining a level of efficiency. InDesign has a wealth of capabilities. Here are some of my recent favorites: “Photo, Tell Me Your Name” InDesign’s auto-captioning feature has many uses, none of ...
READ MOREMeet some new fonts, fall in love again with some familiar favorites, make your digital content more vibrant and clear, and become a master of your type universe. The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces Stephen Coles ...
READ MOREWhen choosing type, details count. If your content gives you the opportunity to highlight numbers in lists, headlines, or infographics, look for fonts that will display those numbers beautifully. Here are my five current favorites: 1. Archer is a playful ...
READ MOREPaper by FiftyThree There are a bazillion drawing apps out there. My Holy Grail wish list includes fast access, intuitive tools, and the ability to capture handwritten notes as well as sketches. Paper by FiftyThree provides all that and casually tosses in a ...
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1) Go big. Maximize your pasteboard. A wider pasteboard area creates an expanded workspace to store temporary ideas while you work on your live pages. I’ve got my horizontal margins set to 200p. The vertical margins are at the 6p ...
READ MOREWhen exporting an Adobe InDesign CC 2014 file to a Reflowable or Fixed Layout EPUB format, there’s a field in the Metadata Export Options dialog for an “Identifier.” Although InDesign automatically fills in this field with an URN (unique identifier ...
READ MOREI enjoy absorbing content on my iPad and read digital versions of some of my favorite magazines. But I love paper too. Always will. That hold-your-breath anticipation of opening a beautifully printed perfect-bound publication for the very first time…that inky ...
READ MOREAdding, editing, and managing hyperlinks in your Adobe InDesign CC layouts is now much simpler than in earlier versions of the software. Select text, and with a right-click of your mouse, you can create a hyperlink with a hyperlink character style (blue ...
READ MOREInformation Graphics, by Sandra Rendgen, is a stunningly beautiful book with more than 400 examples of data visualization from around the world. Fantastically over-sized with a 10-by-15-inch trim and a 2-inch spine, and weighing a hefty 8 pounds, it’s easily ...
READ MOREThe recent InDesign CC 9.2 update adds several new and improved features to the application. Changes have been made in the following areas: Typekit Desktop Fonts Creative Cloud subscribers who are using Typekit fonts can easily find missing fonts, filter and ...
READ MOREHere’s something fun for you to try! Nested styles can be repeated throughout a paragraph to easily create stylized text. We’ll show you how to alternate colored words as a basic example, but take the time to experiment with nested ...
READ MOREIf you’re like me, every new project inspires you to learn new tricks to complete your work more quickly. BUT remembering all those new tips can be challenging. Here’s an eye-pleasing and useful reference guide from the Society of Publication ...
READ MOREIf you’re one of the lucky people who owns a Retina display, you’ll be very happy to learn that InDesign CC supports Retina devices and monitors. Not only does this allow designers to view text and complex artwork with greater ...
READ MOREAdobe Exchange is a great feature for users looking for ways to be more efficient and creative. The Adobe Exchange panel, which can be viewed by selecting Window>Extensions>Adobe Exchange, functions like an app store, allowing you to search for content, plug-ins, ...
READ MORELet’s face it, having to use a utility outside of InDesign to produce QR codes was a hassle. Thankfully, Adobe InDesign CC provides the ability to generate and edit high-quality independent QR code graphics within the application. The generated QR ...
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