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14 Little-Known InDesign Tips
- Thursday, 8 Jul 2010, 10:53 PDT (3 weeks ago)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
With each new version of InDesign (or any Creative Suite product), we usually hear about its new features and start using them right away. However, there are always features that don’t make it into the marketing materials. So, I’m going…
Mastering Text Threading in InDesign
- Tuesday, 18 May 2010, 12:55 PDT (18 May 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Text threading is a natural component when creating multipage InDesign documents. However, I still run into quite a few users that haven’t quite mastered the ins-and-outs of the feature. So, I figured I would get everyone up to speed on…
InDesign CS5: Live Captions
- Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 05:57 PDT (23 April 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Quickly create image captions using the image’s metadata.
InDesign CS5: Multiplace Images
- Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 05:54 PDT (23 April 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
This tutorial goes over the new minibridge feature in InDesign CS5, as well as the ability to place multiple images, build multiple frames, and the new autofit command.
InDesign CS5: Interactive
- Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 05:05 PDT (23 April 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
The new interactive panel in InDesign CS5 makes it easier and faster to create animation without having to write code.
InDesign CS5: Auto Fit
- Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 05:03 PDT (23 April 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Save time with the new auto fit features in InDesign CS5, which will now adjust the frame and image size at the same time.
InDesign CS5: Layers Panel
- Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 05:00 PDT (23 April 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Explore the InDesign CS5 Layers panel as well as the span and split column feature.
Create Photo Albums for Print with InDesign
- Thursday, 4 Mar 2010, 11:46 PST (4 March 2010)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Recently, I attended a seminar taught by wedding photographer David Ziser. While I learned a lot of good photography tips, one thing that caught my attention was an app David showed for laying out wedding albums. Typically, a wedding photographer…
Tips for Outputting Your InDesign CS4 Work
- Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009, 13:11 PST (9 December 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Going to Press
In each issue of Layers magazine I’ve focused on helping you learn new ways of using InDesign to lay out your pages. Now it’s time to take a look at getting all that beautiful layout work you’ve…
Text Wrap and Text Formatting in InDesign
- Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009, 12:07 PDT (13 October 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
The most frequently asked questions I get from people who are new to InDesign revolves around Text Wrap; however, there are also questions about text formatting that don’t get asked. But I know they exist because when I’m presenting in…
Conditional Text and InDesign CS4
- Wednesday, 12 Aug 2009, 14:09 PDT (12 August 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
InDesign has always supported the use of layers, but layers don’t always cut it when working with text. You can put a text frame on a layer and turn that layer on and off as needed, but it’s an all…
Using Adobe Bridge with InDesign CS2
- Monday, 27 Jul 2009, 07:22 PDT (27 July 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
As a Photoshop user, I was really starting to dig the File Browser. It was a natural to allow me to view a folder of images without having to open them up one by one to locate the ones I…
Using Adobe Bridge with InDesign
- Monday, 27 Jul 2009, 07:22 PDT (27 July 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
As a Photoshop user, I was really starting to dig the File Browser. It was a natural to allow me to view a folder of images without having to open them up one by one to locate the ones I…
Turn Your InDesign Documents into Interactive Flash Content
- Monday, 15 Jun 2009, 13:06 PDT (15 June 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Going from print to Web just got a lot easier with Adobe InDesign CS4. In the past, we concentrated on going from InDesign to HTML or PDF. While the interactive features in InDesign still work nicely for PDF, they also…
Fast Layout in Adobe InDesign CS4
- Saturday, 28 Mar 2009, 05:04 PDT (28 March 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
Every now and then an app gets an update that really impacts your daily routine, and I’m happy to say that InDesign CS4 has some new-and-improved features that will do just that. InDesign is a page layout app, so anything…
Automate Your Designs with Nested Styles in Adobe InDesign
- Tuesday, 17 Mar 2009, 05:03 PDT (17 March 2009)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
We’re all used to working with style sheets (or least we should be). With each new version of InDesign, there seems to be a new way to style your content. We started with paragraph and character styles, then we got…
Create Smart Contact Sheets in Adobe InDesign
- Monday, 17 Nov 2008, 13:44 PST (17 November 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine » InDesign
I know what you’re thinking: “Shouldn’t this be in the Photoshop section?” After all, whenever you hear the term “contact sheet,” you probably immediately think images and Photoshop. Also, if you looked around the InDesign interface, you wouldn’t really find…
Magazine Cover Design in InDesign
- Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008, 07:17 PDT (20 August 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
It may sound like a simple thing, but you better believe that a lot of thought goes into the design of a magazine cover. Covers compete for attention next to dozens of other magazines on the rack.
InDesign CS3, In Good Form
- Thursday, 26 Jun 2008, 15:49 PDT (26 June 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
Let’s learn the right way to build a form in InDesign (with a cameo appearance of Acrobat to make it fillable).
InDesign: The Power of OpenType
- Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 15:50 PDT (28 May 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
OpenType fonts provide improved cross-platform document portability, rich linguistic support, powerful typographic capabilities, and simplified font-management requirements.
InDesign CS3: Judge a Book By Its Cover
- Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 08:27 PDT (7 May 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
It may sound like a simple thing, but you better believe that a lot of thought goes into the design of a magazine cover.
Adobe InDesign: Libraries vs. Snippets
- Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008, 15:09 PDT (15 April 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
Snippets are the new kids on the block, and by using Snippets you’re not required to keep everything in one place. The beauty of this is that there’s room for both in your design world. So let’s take a look…
Transparency Tricks in Adobe InDesign CS3
- Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008, 15:57 PST (26 February 2008)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
Although InDesign works wonderfully with Adobe Photoshop, it’s always nice when you don’t have to constantly go back and forth. Adobe InDesign CS3 takes some lessons from Photoshop in the way of transparency effects.
InDesign CS3: Give Your Tables Some Style!
- Thursday, 28 Jun 2007, 08:56 PDT (28 June 2007)
- By: Terry White, Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe Â» InDesign
It’s here! InDesign CS3, along with the rest of the Creative Suite 3, has shipped. Now it’s time to dive into some of the features that will enhance your creativity and speed up your production.
I’m going to start off…