Adobe InDesign
If you work on any sort of project that has editorial content, the writer, your client, or someone involved in providing the text content is likely to ask you for a word count. For many designers, that means copy & pasting some bogus text from the design into an app like MS Word or Apple Pages to get a character, word, or paragraph count.
That’s just silly and unproductive.
Read more “Getting an InDesign Story’s Word Count”
Adobe InDesign
I’m fairly O.C.D. about things when it comes to my InDesign layouts. For example, having bleeds is not enough, they must be EXACT amounts, no more and no less.
Here’s a great way to fix images that bleed inside InDesign… no switching to Photoshop or fiddly image resizing is necessary!
Read more “Add Bleed to Your Image Right Inside InDesign”
Adobe InDesign
This video tutorial will show you how to switch InDesign paragraph styles quickly and easily.
Read more “Switch InDesign Paragraph Styles Quickly”
Adobe InDesign
I’m not sure this is going to be useful to anyone but the most green of designers. No experienced designer is going to be happy with the results, no matter how intelligently they are.
Read more “Coming Soon to InDesign…”
Adobe InDesign
If you’re the type that places all your images and text onto the pasteboard (the space around the actual page) before you start your design/layout work in Adobe InDesign, then this tip is for you.
Read more “Extending the InDesign Pasteboard”
Adobe InDesign
Any time I can save myself from moving the mouse from one end of the screen to the other I consider it a big win. This little shortcut saves me a lot of mousing around with a 27″ hooked up to a MacBook Pro.
Read more “Quickly Switch to InDesign’s Text Tool”
Adobe InDesign
InDesign’s Text Frame Options dialog box contains a few features/options you may find yourself using often, such as adjusting the column width of your text frame, adding inset spacing, adjusting the frame justification, adjusting your baseline options, and more. There are two ways (I know of) to quickly access the Text Frame Options.
Read more “InDesign Text Frame Options Shortcuts”
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe is like your kids that just can’t stay out of trouble. You love them, but you just want to kill them sometimes (that’s a bit extreme, but you get the idea).
Read more “Adobe is at it again…”
Adobe InDesign
Did you know that Guides in Adobe InDesign will snap to the edge of an object when you have that object selected?
Read more “InDesign Guide Snapping”
Adobe InDesign
This is something I see people asking all the time. How do I make the numbers in a number list line-up with the period after the number instead of being left justified.
Read more “How to make pretty number lists in Adobe InDesign”
Adobe InDesign
Most designers know how to create styles, but few go beyond the basics. This short video will show you how to use InDesign’s Based On Styles.
Read more “Using InDesign’s “Based On” Styles”