
James Fritz
About
James Fritz is a Principal Program Manager: Content Tools and Workflows at LinkedIn.
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The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on September 16–19, 2025
CreativePro Week 2025
CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference to master the tools of design, June 2-6, 2025 in Phoenix and Online. No matter your skill...
The Design + Marketing Summit 2025
Master design and production techniques for social media, email, print, video, and more.
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2024
Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on October 8–11, 2024.
Presentation Design Conference 2025
The essential how-to event for designers who need to create compelling slide decks, interactive experiences, and impactful presentations.
Design + AI Summit 2024
Join us online November 13–14, 2024 for The Design + AI Summit to learn how to thrive with AI tools.
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See all articlesTip of the Week: Locking Items
This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on December 11, 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 […]
Essential Tips for Adobe Muse
Even though Adobe Muse is less than two years old, it is rapidly evolving into a trusted tool for designers. And as Adobe’s Creative Cloud continues to expand its membership more designers are discovering Muse’s power to help them build websites without worrying about code. Lets take a look at six quick and important tips […]
Where is My Drop Shadow?
Q: When does a drop shadow not appear to be a drop shadow? A: When it isn't applied to the frame.
Create an Interactive PDF with Animations in 1 Step
Combine PDFs and animation sounds easy, but it is often harder than it needs to be. Here is another trick that might make it easier.
From the Creators of InDesign – Adobe Muse
Do you wish you could just design a website without having to worry about writing or editing code? A new product called Adobe Muse promises to make this designers dream finally happen.
Basic and Not-so-Basic Text Selection Shortcuts
Most people understand the basics of selecting text like double and triple click, but there are a surprisingly large number of shortcuts to help you get the perfect text selection.
Knock Down Noise in Your Photos
Noise in a photograph isn’t always bad. Occasionally, those colored speckles that are most common in the shadows can add a gritty, grainy mood that enhances the image. But usually, you want to get rid of noise. When you’re trying to fix photographs with a lot of noise, the ideal is to remove that noise […]
New Digital Enterprise Platform from Adobe
Recently, I spoke with Ben Watson, principal customer experience strategist at Adobe, about his company’s new “Digital Enterprise Platform”. Ben is a well-spoken, sharp guy, easy to listen to, yet it often seemed like he was using a foreign language: ECM, speeds and feeds, ERP, network conditions, RDBMS… I’m afraid I just don’t speak Enterprise. […]
WPPI Road Trip Like "The Hangover" for Wedding Photographers
OK, I lied. The WPPI Road Trip won’t really be like the “The Hangover“–no tigers in the bathroom, no babies in the closet. But it will be about upcoming weddings; specifically, about how to photograph them. This is the third annual travelling seminar held by the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI). It kicks off […]
Updated Tool Promises to Optimze PDFs for Tablet Viewing
Software company Enfocus has many large publishing clients. When some of those clients complained about the slow, crash-prone experience of using PDFs on the iPad, Enfocus listened and acted. The result is Update 2 for PitStop Pro 10 and PitStop Server 10. Enfocus says that Update 2 optimizes PDFs so that the iPad and other […]