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 […]
When using the Colour Panel in InDesign or Illustrator you have control over each component colour channel when working in RGB or CMYK enabling you to mix specific hues of reds, purples, oranges etc. Sometimes you’ll arrive at the colour you’re after but just need to go deeper or paler. If this has you fiddling […]
Today I want to look at a very simple, yet very powerful, way of making global formatting changes to InDesign documents. Need to change every key-line in a 64 page document to 0.25pt thickness? Easy! Want to change the inset spacing of all text boxes to zero? No problem! Read on to find out how… […]
BOOKING THE EXAM The Adobe ACE exams are currently run through the Pearson Vue network of testing centres, which also runs exams for organisations including Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, and Oracle. The centres are available at a wide range of locations across the UK, and you can find your nearest centre using the Pearson Vue […]
If you’ve printed documents from InDesign or exported them to PDF you’ve, no-doubt, come across the Marks and Bleed settings in the print/export dialogue box. Here we configure the amount of document bleed and which of the various marks to include. There is one often overlooked setting here which can cause problems in certain print […]
Use the Illustrator Join tool to join segments and points The Join Tool in Illustrator isn’t the most exciting, featured-packed, weapon in your Adobe arsenal but it does make short work of what was once a laborious process. Nested in with the Pencil and Shaper Tools the Join Tool is essentially a brush, but unlike […]
Photoshop’s Eyedropper is our go to tool when we need to take colour readings from an image. However, by default it’s configured to take a “Point Sample” reading meaning only the pixel directly beneath the cursor is analyzed. In most working conditions this is far too precise as most types of image will have variations […]
If you have to generate PDF files for Print you may occasionally get a request from a print supplier asking to ‘remove the fonts’ from your PDF. If this has you heading back to your InDesign or Illustrator file to Outline all the text then stay tuned, all is not lost! Firstly, let’s look at […]
Creating Non-destuctive Grain in Photoshop It’s often desirable to add grain to an image when working in Photoshop. Typically this will be a stylistic choice to achieve a certain look but grain can also be employed during more technical processes. There are number of ways to add grain effects in Photoshop but, by default, these […]
InDesign has a lot of paragraph settings that you can use, and here are some of the ones that I really like and store in my stylesheets… 1}} If you are dealing with more than one language within your document, do not forget that InDesign can set a particular dictionary to specific paragraphs via your […]