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Download the Magazine for Creative Cloud Users
If you’re a Creative Cloud (CC) subscriber, you know you have access to a wealth of apps and services. But all those choices can be overwhelming at times. I often find myself remarking, “Wait…I have that app?” because I haven’t explored all that CC has to offer. The folks over at Creative Bloq have put […]
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ITUNES RSS FEED DOWNLOAD view the transcript of this podcast. In this episode: News about our sessions at Adobe MAX, The InDesign Conference, and InDesign Magazine Time to Make the Calendars — Faster! Understanding Frames: Points vs. Paths Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Run Length News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Rorohiko: You know them as a prolific source […]
Continue readingTip of the Week: Move Text to a New Frame
This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on September 25, 2014. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets and CreativePro, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll all the […]
Continue readingWindow Seat: Fixed-Layout EPUB is Ready for Take-Off
Let’s take a little break from the usual fare of tips, tricks, scripts, and shortcuts, to consider a topic that’s probably a bit over your heads—literally (unless you are reading this in an airplane)—human flight. When we fly, we put up with everything from baggage fees to body scanners to get where we need to […]
Continue readingRethinking the Pixel: It’s All Relative Now
How big is a pixel? It’s widely thought that a pixel is the smallest dot that screen hardware can physically display: One pixel is one pixel. That was safe to assume for over a quarter century because the pixel density of most of our screens was stuck between 72 and 120 pixels per inch (ppi) […]
Continue readingFast Photoshop: Blending Text With a Photo
OK, I realize this is kind of meta, since it’s a CreativePro article about an image for a CreativePro article, but as I was preparing the slideshow image for Erica Gamet’s story on Awesome Autumnal Assets, I thought, “this would make a good tip.” So here it is, how to recognize and execute a small, […]
Continue readingInDesign Secrets Video: Making a TOC With the Index Feature
The next issue of InDesign Magazine is coming soon and the theme is…(drumroll please)…workarounds! So it’s only appropriate (yet entirely coincidental) that in the latest InDesign Secrets video at lynda.com, David Blatner shares one of the most amazing workarounds you’re likely to ever see. He shows how to build a table of contents with any text (not just the text that’s […]
Continue readingEditing Text Wrap With the Pen Tool
InDesign offers five kinds of Text Wrap: No Text Wrap, Wrap Around Bounding Box, Wrap Around Object Shape, Jump Object, and Jump to Next Column. Most of the time, one of these will give you the right results for your layout. But once in a while, you might find that none of them gives you the exact look that […]
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