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 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 minutes to set things […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign and Illustrator New in InDesign CC 2023: we can now copy text from Illustrator and paste it as live text (fully editable, not outlines!) into InDesign. It’s as awesome as it sounds but may want to adjust your preferences in InDesign. Here’s a quick overview of the […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor for Creative Cloud Design & Layout Solutions InDesign has a handy shortcut you can use to index proper names. Let’s say you want to add the name John Doe to the index, but you would like it indexed in the D section, and appear as Doe, John. For proper […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor for Creative Cloud Design & Layout Solutions In a perfect world, we always hold the Shift key when resizing images to maintain the aspect ratio. However, as fallible humans, sometimes we forget. Luckily for us, it’s very easy restore the aspect ratio on an image. When a frame is […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign The Next Style attribute is little-understood property of a paragraph style. It can be used to automatically apply styles in a variety of ways. The first example will how you how to apply styles as you type. Let’s say that a title always follows a chapter number […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign Lists help us get organized and numbered lists indicate the correct order to perform a series of tasks. But what if you have subtasks? Then you need a nested list. Create two paragraph styles: one for the main steps and one for the sub steps. I’ll call […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign I find it difficult to work with somebody else’s files. I don’t know how they were set them up, and I have to figure that out before I can make modifications, or help a student use them effectively. Today’s issue was trying to figure out why I […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on InDesign InDesign allows us to generate text very quickly, which is useful when mocking up a layout. Select a frame—or click an insertion point inside of a frame—and choose Type > Fill with Placeholder Text. InDesign fills the frame with faux latin text. Placeholder text follows the rhythm […]
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