Episode 282
Podcast 282
• Best practice for upgrading InDesign
• Marketplace
• Obscure Feature: Tint Range
Special episode recorded LIVE at our 2020 Holiday Special!
- Save the Date for our next online conference: Click: Powerpoint and Presentation Design, February 18–19, 2021
- December 2020 issue of InDesign Magazine is all about creating web and screen graphics
- Making gifts with InDesign
- Interview with John McWade
- Obscure InDesign Feature: Animated Zoom
Links mentioned in this podcast:
- Register now for CreativePro Week 2021
- Keith Gilbert’s 100 Things Every InDesign User Should Know, our new ebook
- Making gifts from InDesign
- PhotoFlinger (laying out photos and objects quickly): https://www.premediasystems.com/scripts-and-more
- Blurb Photo book maker: https://www.blurb.com/indesign-plugin
- Spoonflower for fabric, wallpaper, bedding: https://www.spoonflower.com/en/design-tools
- Zazzle for custom gifts: https://www.zazzle.com/custom/gifts
- Fun holiday-themed articles on CP:
- Candy Cane text: https://creativepro.com/holiday-text-fx-part-1-candy-cane-text/
- Wrap text in lights: https://creativepro.com/holiday-text-fx-part-2-wrapping-text-in-lights/
- Draw a snowman: https://creativepro.com/holiday-fx-do-you-want-to-build-an-indesign-snowman/
- Make an ornament: https://creativepro.com/holiday-papercraf/
- All kinds of holiday designs: https://creativepro.com/a-winter-holiday-treasure-trove
- John McWade’s books
- Pantone color of the year
- Zoom Animation
- GPU Acceleration is not yet available on Windows… vote for it!
- InDesignSecrets…
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