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 […]
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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. There are two settings, one for On Screen and one for Printing/Exporting. By default these […]
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 […]
INDD is the document extension for an Adobe InDesign Document file. These files can be opened an edited using the Adobe InDesign software which is available from https://www.adobe.com/indesign Adobe InDesign is the leading software for laying out professional looking documents, and is commonly used in marketing and communications teams, as well as for producing bids […]
If you’re on the Creative Cloud subscription then you’ll have access to the latest versions Adobe’s software – in fact it sometimes seems that you ONLY have access to the latest versions. But actually it is possible to install legacy versions via the CC installer App going back as far as CS6 (if the title […]
If you’ve been using Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign for any length of time you’ll, no doubt, have heard the terms vectors and rasters (or pixels). And, equally likely, been told that vectors are ‘resolution independent’ whereas raster images have a fixed resolution. But what does that actually mean in terms of our artwork and how […]
If you work in InDesign and have a need to share files or collaborate on projects then you may have come across the humble IDML file extension. Knowing a little about how this file format works, and what is included in the resulting file can help you navigate a workflow that needs to cater for […]
One simple, but extremely useful, feature in InDesign is the ability to customise the colour of individual guides. By default the Ruler Guides, the guides we pull out from the page rulers at the top and left of the document window, are set to Cyan. If we go to the Layout menu and select “Ruler […]
Today we’re going to look at a two methods in InDesign to automatically resize text frames to match the text within. When laying out text it’s often useful to employ panels of colour and/or tints to help separate text from other page content or break-up information into logical sections. Since InDesign allows Fill and Stroke […]
The Layers Panel in Illustrator and InDesign is a potent tool when it comes to organising and editing your content. Both applications work in much the same way allowing you to select, duplicate, lock and generally organise your content in a logical fashion. Depending on your workflow you might use Layers to separate out different […]