Most designers know that styles are an effective way to efficiently format text, and that it’s best to apply styles consistently to ensure a cohesive, visually pleasing design. The Redefine Paragraph and Character Styles feature gives you the ability to visually redesign how ...
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The June 2020 release of Adobe InDesign (v15.1) offers the option to automatically activate any missing Adobe Fonts from the Adobe Fonts site (without you having to go there and find them) when a document is opened. This process happens ...
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It may seem so simple, but what a time-saver for anyone working on a text-heavy document! Similar to the search direction feature in the Find/Change dialog, you can now choose to search backward when spell checking a document. No more ...
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Gone are the days of needing to manually add column rules to your text frames. No more placing rules on master pages or grouping text frames and hand-drawn lines. Better yet, no more searching for rogue rules after text frames ...
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With just a click you can find images that are similar to a currently selected image on your InDesign layout. The list of Creative Cloud features that are an integral part of your InDesign workflow just grew. The Find Similar ...
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Adding footnotes to the text in a table is as easy as adding them to any regular text box, however there are some limitations to be aware of with their formatting. Add footnotes to the text in a table by ...
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When it comes to placing images, especially large numbers of images, this new feature introduced in InDesign CC 2019, automates several steps and is a great time-saver. InDesign can now evaluate an image being placed, along with the frame’s dimensions ...
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Adobe MAX 2018: Creativity’s Golden Age At today’s opening MAX keynote, the Adobe Creative Cloud team unveiled numerous new tools, features, and innovations. CEO Shantanu Narayen’s presentation stressed how Adobe is focusing on how creativity plays a major role in education, business, and ...
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We have a new No. 1: InDesign Tip: Hide Panels and Toolbars Quickly! Sharing Adobe InDesign tips, shortcuts, and best practices that help you work smarter and more efficiently, continues to be great fun for us at Technology for Publishing. So, ...
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Are you collaborating with a team in the Creative Cloud? Are you working with a shared library that contains a large number of assets? Do you scroll endlessly looking for the assets you need? Or do you use the search ...
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If your documents use numerous cross-references then this tip is great news for you. With the release of InDesign CC 2018 version 13.1, creating a cross-reference no longer requires selecting a paragraph style, for instance a chapter head, and then ...
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The Balance Ragged Lines option is not one of those exciting features in InDesign that people often talk about, but it is one you shouldn’t ignore. This option ensures that ragged text is balanced and more visually appealing. If your ...
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Not only does InDesign highlight characters that have available alternate glyph characters, but it also allows a user to simply select an alternate from a contextual menu and replace the original. When a word is selected, a blue underline will ...
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Serifs, strokes, and swashes. This week’s infographic pick, posted by Janie Klieve on Canva, takes us into the world of typography with an illustrated overview of everything from typeface categories and styles to positioning and spacing to the parts of letters. If you’re a designer, this colorful ...
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I get excited about weird things, like learning something new in InDesign. I use the program so often and have used it for so long that I assume I know everything worth knowing. Silly me. While Adobe does a great ...
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Mobile-first, articlization, effective storytelling, long-form journalism, free vs. paywall, responsiveness and fluidity, device independence, tappable design . . . Is your head spinning yet? Publication designers today are challenged with not only understanding myriad new terms and content delivery approaches, ...
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Selecting color for a new project can be overwhelming, with infinite possibilities to consider and new tools to try, like the Color Theme tool in Adobe’s latest release of InDesign CC. The upgrade adds Adobe Cloud sharing capabilities to the Color Theme tool, ...
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I’ve always been intrigued by how one can best convey the essence of a large set of facts and information in a visual way that has immediate impact (see our recent article from TFP Creative Director Mary Lester on Tools for ...
READ MOREAll thinkers benefit from incorporating their hands, bodies, and tactile experiences into their creative process. Straight lines are not required, ever. That’s what rulers and computers are for. Visual thinking is about opening creative channels and tapping into fresh ideas ...
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Looking at a diagram, floor plan, flow chart, or map helps us to quickly grasp an idea. When we need to communicate a complex concept, the process of drawing it out helps us clarify our thinking, and the resulting drawing ...
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