Ted LoCascio

Ted LoCascio

About

Ted Locasio is a professional graphic designer and an expert in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, InDesign, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. He served as senior designer at KW Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) for several years, and has created layouts and designs for many successful software training books, videos, and magazines. He is the author of InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips, The InDesign Effects Book, and Combining Images with Photoshop Elements. He has contributed articles to Photoshop User magazine, InDesign magazine, Creativepro.com and has taught at PhotoshopWorld. Ted is also the video author of InDesign CS2 Essential Training, Font Management, Illustrator CS2 Creative Techniques, and Creative Suite 2 Integration: Print Project Workflow–all available at Lynda.com. He also teaches a Digital Graphics course at St. Petersburg College, in Seminole FL.

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Event
The Presentation Design Conference 2026
February 17–20 • An Online Event

The essential how-to event for anyone who creates, designs, or delivers presentations.

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Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
September 16–19 • An Online Event

Available for purchase through December 19. On-demand access ends September 19, 2026. Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at…

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Archived
CreativePro Week 2025
June 2–6 • Now Available On Demand

Available for purchase through September 6. On-demand access ends June 6, 2026. CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference to master the tools of…

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Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2024
October 8–10 • From the Archives

Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on October 8–11, 2024.

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Archived
Presentation Design Conference 2025
March 12–14 • An Online Event

The essential how-to event for designers who need to create compelling slide decks, interactive experiences, and impactful presentations.

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Article
Create your own layer comps in InDesign

Frustrated that there are no layer comps in InDesign? Well, why not create your own?

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Saving AI versions as layers and accessing them in InDesign

Use InDesign’s Object Layer Options to access different versions of a graphic stored in a layered AI file.

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Editing the Default New Document Preset

What if the majority of the layouts that you create in InDesign don’t require facing pages?

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Article
INX missing link bug in IDCS4

Strange things are happening when exporting CS4 docs that contain missing links to INX.

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Article
The Dual Text Wrap Dilemma

Although you cannot apply an inverted text wrap and a traditional text wrap to the same object, there is a workaround.

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Article
Converting Glyph Characters Into Graphic Elements

You can use the Glyphs panel in InDesign to locate a dingbat character that will work with the theme of your layout.

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CS4 Font Installation

Where are the fonts that come with CS4 being installed on your system?

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Utilizing Alpha Channels When Placing Extracted Images

Start making good use of alpha channels when placing images in your InDesign layouts.

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Skewed Text Path

Create Type That Twists and Turns

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The Useless Drop Shadow Button

How can you make use of the Control panel drop shadow button and use your own custom settings? Unfortunately, you can’t.

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CPW Icons

June 29–July 3, 2026

Nashville, TN (and online)