by Barb Binder Photoshop doesn’t have an Align panel like InDesign and Illustrator, but with the Move tool active, if you select two or more layers in the Layers panel, the Alignment buttons will appear on the Options bar. Here are a few tips to mastering alignment in Photoshop: When you select multiple layers and […]
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By Barb Binder In InDesign, you can easily add or remove a stroke all the way around a frame, but sometimes we want to define a stroke on just one side of a frame. For that situation, use a hard drop shadow. Even better, save it as a an object style that you can apply […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign If you are an Adobe Photoshop user, you already know that the use of layers is critical to your Photoshop workflow. In InDesign, layers are optional. They are an organizational tool that some users take advantage of, and others choose to ignore. Using layers (for the most […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign This seems like such an easy fix—and it is, but it’s not intuitive. New InDesign users quickly figure out that InDesign stacks our design elements in the order in which we add them. And when we need to change the stacking order, we can use Object > […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Sometimes it’s the little things. New in the Fall release of FrameMaker 2022 (v17): the ability to define a different color for the table header row than the table footer row. There is a subtle new difference in Table Designer > Shading. For the first time, we can now […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor I keep an eye on my blog analytics and the most-read blog post since I started this in 2009 is this one: Adobe FrameMaker: Need Repeating Heading Rows? This tells me that a.) users don’t know how to define a header row and b.) they can’t figure it out on […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor updated Jul 5, 2023 When you upgrade to a new version of InDesign, it’s usually a good idea to not import your previous settings to the new version. I find InDesign to be more stable over the long run if I turn that feature off and take a few […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor FrameMaker has had the page count variable to track the last number in a chapter for as long as I can remember. If a chapter has 10 pages, you use that variable to set up numbering that looks like this: 1 of 10, 2 of 10, etc. You can […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor Variables are a FrameMaker productivity feature that is hidden to those who read our finished documentation. Users add variables to automate content updates and to insert content that changes from page to page. We’ve always had the ability to highlight our variables while we are working—we could create a […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor At last! New in the Fall release of FrameMaker 2022 (v17): a last line right indent. Most of us are comfortable setting indents (first line, left and right indents) but what in the world is a “last line right indent” in FrameMaker and when might you use it? I […]
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