Select (or delete) All Guides

It’s easy to delete a guide on your InDesign page: Just select it with the Selection or Direct Selection tool and press Delete. But what if you want to delete all your guides? Here’s one of my favorite hidden shortcuts: Command-Option-G/Ctrl-Alt-G. That selects all the guides on the current spread. Now you can press Delete to get rid of all of them at once.

Adobe Photoshop Elements Techniques: "Learn The Easy Way" with Free Video Tutorials

Unlock the secrets of this amazing program and “learn the easy way” with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements Techniques newsletter and website. We show you step-by-step how to do everything from color correcting and sharpening your photos, to creating the most requested photographic special effects. Get started here: https://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/walkthrough/gettingstarted_step1.php or view the FREE video tutorials here: https://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/learningcenter/. […]

Mergenthaler Edition Releases Second Issue of the New Linotype

Following its highly successful relaunch of Linotype Matrix in magazine format last year, Linotype’s publishing label, Mergenthaler Edition, is now releasing the second issue of the classic typographic journal. Linotype Matrix Issue 4.2 takes an exciting and informative look at typography in history – with a thematic focus on the great 20th century type designer […]

Lynda.com Announces QuarkXPress 7 New Features

lynda.com announced today the release of a new video-based tutorial, QuarkXPress 7 New Features with Jay Nelson. QuarkXPress 7 is the most significant update ever to Quark’s page layout application. In QuarkXPress 7 New Features, Jay Nelson, editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly, expertly shows viewers how to take advantage of the program’s new […]

Photoshop Camera Raw Version Control

Completedigitalphotography.com has just posted a free set of simple utilities that make it possible for Mac-based users of Photoshop Camera Raw to easily manage multiple versions of a raw file. Although you can use Photoshop Camera Raw to process a raw file in many different ways, neither Camera Raw nor Bridge provides any facility for […]

Type Tips for Print and Web, Mac and Windows

Based on an article originally published in the DesignGeek e-zine. Cool Tool for Previewing Web Fonts Anyone who’s designed a Web site or any other sort of screen-based presentation knows how difficult it is to find good-looking text styling that works cross-browser and cross-platform. Web designer Marko Dugonjic created a neat Web application that will […]

Three Previews in the Print Dialog Box

See the simple trick to access a wealth of useful information about your print job in InDesign’s Print dialog box.

TableTweaker Scripts

For a recent client project, page layout pro and InDesign scripting guru Dave Saunders wrote five separate Javascripts to help fit table elements to the text they contain. He generously posted a link to the scripts (I’ll add the link further down) on the Blueworld InDesign Talk mailing list for others to use, and I hope he doesn’t mind me writing about them here!

The bi-platform, InDesign CS2-only scripts are:

Real World Creative Suite A Good Read

I saw one of the first copies off the press of Real World Adobe Creative Suite 2 at The Creative Suite Conference in Chicago last week, and after having read a chunk of it, I’m pleased to report it’s well worth reading. While other books go into each individual application of the suite, Sandee Cohen […]