by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker A question came up today about how to set up a graphic that bleeds off the side of page in FrameMaker. It’s not intuitive, but it can be done. In the image below, I added a banner to the left side of the page. The paper size is 6″ x […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Photoshop Life’s short, so it should be fun. That’s my motto, anyway. And I guess the software engineers at Adobe feel the same way. Here are a couple of silly little easter eggs to play with: In Preferences > Interface, don’t just click on a color theme, Cmd+Opt+Shift (Win: Ctrl+Alt+Shift) […]
Continue ReadingBy Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator If I have learned one thing as an Adobe Community Professional helping out on the forums, it would be this—don’t rush to upgrade. Sure, things might be better after an upgrade or they might go downhill fast. Here’s my advice: when you get an […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Updated: Dec 12, 2016 This question is coming up over and over again. Turns out a lot of people rely on the Frame Fitting buttons to control the size and position of their images, and in some cases, they have gone missing after the InDesign CC 2015.4 update […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Today in class, a question came up on numbering headings and paragraphs. I directed my students to this earlier post, which explains how to number chapters and headings. It was good start, but they also wanted to number tables and figures, which I had totally overlooked. Take a […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign As mentioned in a previous post—Adobe InDesign: Include Paragraph Numbers in a Table of Contents—numbering chapters and paragraphs in InDesign takes a little effort. You have to work through the logic and then set up the paragraph styles. For more information on this part of the process, […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Numbering chapters and paragraphs in InDesign takes a little effort. You have to work through the logic and then set up the paragraph styles. For more information on this part of the process, see Adobe InDesign: Numbering Chapters, Subheads, Tables & Figures. The good news is that […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Illustrator I received an email last week from one of our past Introduction to Adobe Illustrator students: I have a question about one of my paths: it clearly has a stroke around it, but when I select it, Illustrator shows the icon for none. Can you figure out why this is […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign I saw a question on the InDesign forum recently on restarting numbered lists. The most common technique to get a second or subsequent list to start over at 1 is to either: Right click > Restart Numbering over the first entry of each and every list, or Set […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator The new live shape behaviors are cool (say some) and awful (say others). You can turn them off of the ellipses and polygons, and if that’s why you are here, skip down the to last line of this post. But first, let’s see how they work. Rectangles/Rounded […]
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