About
Steve Laskevitch is a certified instructor, teaching Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and InDesign (and more). He taught physics for a time in the twentieth century, when he became enamored with teaching, computer graphics, design, and photography. He has spent the 21st century both teaching and doing desktop publishing, founding Luminous Works Training in 2003. He has built production workflows for many companies and helped Adobe prepare its certification exams. For over four years, Steve led Seattle’s InDesign User Group (the first in the United States, despite what the New York group claims). He created the Course & Compendium series of books, published by Rocky Nook and widely used by colleges and universities.
Steve is obsessed with New Haven-style pizza, well-crafted books, and the film Casablanca. Don’t get him started.
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The InDesign Conference 2025
Join the world’s most knowledgeable InDesign experts as they share their wisdom, tips, and techniques for building documents of every size and format.
Articles
See all articlesQ&A with Steve Laskevitch: Rocket Scientist, InDesign Guru, Pizza Snob
Q&A with Steve Laskevitch, who is presenting at The InDesign Conference 2025
Markdown to InDesign, Simplified
The path from Word or Google Docs to InDesign is often fraught. Markdown offers writers and InDesigners a smoother path.
Building a 3D Scene
When you want to recreate an iconic image with photorealism it’s time to round up the usual suspects.
Designing with Rules, Borders, and Shading
Creative ways to highlight text content in InDesign
Book Excerpt: InDesign Course and Compendium
Steve Laskevitch shows how to work with long document features.
Fixing a Slightly Flawed Font With GREP
Automatically apply kerning via GREP styles to improve the appearance of type set in a particular font.
InDesign to Print & Screen: A Best-of-All-Worlds Workflow
When the output could be PDF, EPUB, or print—or all three—there’s no need to compromise on color or capability. Here’s a real-world look at how to get it all.
