Setting up Preflighting in InDesign
No More Low Res RGBs! Setting up a simple Preflight in InDesign CC
Today I’m going to show you how to setup a Preflight Profile in InDesign to catch any low resolution and/or RGB images.
Working with Masters in InDesign
Masters within InDesign are very useful – they provide a common background for whichever page(s) you are working with. But here are some not so well known/used tips regarding masters and pages.
A master can have a master
Say you want a master for Chapter 1 – usually a header and footer. But the footer may be fairly general, just Page X say. This would be the same for Chapter 2, 3 etc.
Appearance of Black in InDesign and Illustrator
Here’s a quick tip for more accurate rendering of blacks in Illustrator and InDesign. Under the Preferences menu you’ll find a tab for Appearance of Black. The screenshot here is from Illustrator but the settings are the same in InDesign.
Using Creative Cloud Workspaces
An often overlooked aspect of most Creative Cloud apps is their ability to save your program layout and this functionality is fairly common across most of the main programs such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. Adobe call these workspaces and they can be extremely useful for rapidly loading specific panel sets or just carrying out general tidying up.
Changing frame shapes after you have made them in InDesign CC
One question I am sometimes asked is "once you have created a frame in InDesign, can you change the frame shape without recreating it from scratch". The good news is there are a number of ways to change frame shapes in InDesign once you have created them, without having to go through the whole creation process again.
What is an SEO Audit
An SEO Audit is an independent and unbiased review of your website from a search engine optimisation perspective. During an SEO Audit the auditor will run a wide range of seo checks on your site and use a variety of proven seo tools, to ensure that your site is continuing to tick all the right boxes to help it rank well in the major search engines.
Some examples of questions an SEO Audit asks include:
Reflect and Join for Symmetry in Illustrator
Using reflect and join in Illustrator can be a great way to create symetrical artwork, so in this post we are going to take a look at how you can do this.