theInDesigner - Episode 6
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a time of change in many ways...giving us a chance to make a fresh start. As a designer, I feel that InDesign has given me that fresh start. A chance...
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Inspired by a question from a listener, this week's episode takes a detailed look at InDesign CS2's Data Merge function, which allows a level of automated, data-driven publishing and page creation...
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It's a very unique time of year for me. I'm in the middle of massive annual project that I'm doing for the first time entirely in InDesign. It's always a battle to meet this deadline, so this episode...
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One of the most long-awaited featues for a page layout program has been transparency support -- and InDesign's got it. But making the transparency you see on the screen translate to the printed page...
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How does a person go about learning InDesign? What's the best way? What resources are available? Where do you you start? Do you take a class? Buy a book? Hire a training consultant? There are a number...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 11 (VIDEO)
At long last, the video podcast that was "a week away" (according to my optimistic first episode) is finally here. This first-ever video episode is the start of a two-part (maybe even three-part)...
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Picking up right where Part 1 left off, this second installment on Nested Style Sheets shows how you can build in additional instructions to your paragraph styles, allowing you to apply multiple style...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 13 (VIDEO)
At last, the thrilling conclusion of the Style Sheets Trilogy. The final installment on this topic demonstrates some additional flexibility you can build into your style sheets to account for the...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 14 (VIDEO)
There are no simple questions when it comes to InDesign. I prove that in this week's episode in which answering a listener's simple question about how to align an object to the page leads me to...
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Add depth and interest to an InDesign layout using the "cheap tricks" demonstrated in this episode, which uses a magazine feature to demonstrate what I called "Poor Man's Lighting Effects" in Episode...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 16
There's nothing wrong with your monitor. This is NOT a video episode. This week, there's more to talk about than to see as I discuss re-creating old layouts -- specifically QuarkXPress layouts -- in...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 17 (VIDEO)
As designers, we have a lot of stuff we need to have at our disposal quickly. But finding a place for that stuff and knowing what stuff you need is a challenge. This episode covers a great place in...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 18 (VIDEO)
If you haven't already discovered InDesign's robust table-creation feature, you're going to be quite impressed by what it can do. If you're familiar with tables, but haven't used them that much, you're...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 19 (VIDEO)
The second installment of the Tables series gets down to the smallest details. This "intermediate" episode covers the settings you can apply in the Table Options and Cell Options dialog boxes, how...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 20 (VIDEO)
Add bells and whistles to your rows and columns in the conclusion of the three-part Tables series. Examples of real-world design projects that feature tables are used to demonstrate placing graphics...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 21 (VIDEO)
When you actually read the InDesign User Guide cover-to-cover -- which I did to study for my recent Adobe certification exam -- you actually find a lot of things you didn't know InDesign could do. In...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 22 (VIDEO)
Collect your custom characters into an easy-to-use set by using the Glyphs palette. Whether you need quick access to dingbats, accented characters, fractions or any other special glyphs, you can keep...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 23 (VIDEO)
In response to a subscriber who was concerned about using Transparency without causing output problems, this episode provides guidelines for best practices in documents that contain transparent...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 24 (VIDEO)
I usually stick to things that can be done automatically within InDesign, but every now and then, you can't avoid the fact that some things just haven't made it into the product yet. In this episode, I...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 25 (VIDEO)
If you're using tracking to control the look of your type at the paragraph level -- like I will confess to doing in the past -- you're missing out on features that give you far greater control of your...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 26 (VIDEO)
Control and update dozens of styles by changing only one or two. This episode demonstrates my method for creating master paragraph and character styles that allow for layout-wide changes quickly and...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 27 (VIDEO)
When you complete 4 full-page ads, 19 charts and graphs, and 123 page layouts in 24 working days, you really see how InDesign's features make a big project much more manageable. Having just completed a...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 28 (VIDEO)
Picking up right where Part 1 left off, this episode concludes my InDesign Inventory of features put to work in the design of a 256-page magazine. In two more examples, I cover working with Master...
View ArticletheInDesigner - Episode 29 (VIDEO)
The first InDesigner episode as an official member of the InDesignSecrets team, this installment is all about building photographic compositions on your InDesign page instead of relying on doing it in...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 30 (VIDEO)
InDesign boasts a robust and powerful Find/Change feature that incorporates its even more powerful Paragraph and Character Style features, allowing you to limit searches to specifically-formatted text,...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 31 (VIDEO)
No, this isn't the white space you learned about in design school. Rather, this episode takes an in-depth look at all eight (yes, eight!) different types of white spaces available within InDesign. What...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 32 (VIDEO)
It's the one-year anniversary of The InDesigner podcast -- a year that exceeded all of my preset expectations. This episode both looks back on the past year and presents an in-depth video look at the...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 33 (VIDEO)
After a long wait, here's a long episode about working with long documents in InDesign. This first installment in a three-part series covers the the Book palette and how to use it to manage, update and...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 34 (VIDEO)
Continuing the Long Documents series with the same book files used in Episode 33, this installment covers how to create an automated, dynamic Table of Contents for an InDesign book. Along the way, I...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 35 (VIDEO)
Picking up right where the last episode finished, I continue to edit and adjust my Table of Contents, demonstrating the "proper" way to make changes, the flexibility of updating a TOC, how to fix...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 36 (VIDEO)
Continuing with the very long series on long document features after a long break, this episode finally tackles the feature that is the bane of many an InDesign user's existence: Indexing. This first...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 37 (VIDEO)
The thrilling conclusion of the Long Documents series is finally here! In this episode, I wrap it all up with some last indexing shortcuts, generating an index (and how it differs from generating a...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 38 (VIDEO)
Icons and panels and docks...oh my! At long last, the wait is over and the veil of secrecy is lifted. In this first look at InDesign CS3, I give a glimpse of what the new version looks like, because...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 39 (VIDEO)
Another glipmse into the new and improved user experience you can expect when CS3 ships. This episode takes a quick look at the Pages palette (which now shows page thumbnails), the much-improved...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 40 (VIDEO)
It's time to get back to the original mission of the videocast -- real-world examples of InDesign in action to help you work better, smarter and faster. In this episode, I take a look at a feature that...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 41 (VIDEO)
How would you like to have all versions of your (or your client's) logo available in one placed file and never have to worry about re-positioning them in the frame in your layout? In this episode, I...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 42 (VIDEO)
Who wants to see the home videos from my vacation? Before you run for the exits, let me rephrase that: Who wants to learn about how to add and work with videos in InDesign, create buttons to control...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 43 (VIDEO)
Who says data and design are mutually exclusive? Not InDesign, that's for sure. Under the right circumstances, data-driven layout is the way to go. Unlike XML, which makes designers run from their...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 44 (VIDEO)
It's that little feature we all take for granted, but InDesign's Text Wrap is a vast improvement over that other page layout application's Runaround feature. This episode takes an in-depth look at all...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 45 (VIDEO)
Normally, I pick one InDesign feature and build a whole episode around it. However, this is the second anniversary of the podcast, and I wanted to demonstrate that combining InDesign features is far...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 46 (VIDEO)
OK...Christmas has already come and gone, I know, but it's still technically the holiday season, and the title of this episode is the title of a Christmas CD project I recently designed. That's the...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 47 (VIDEO)
A subscriber's question about moving and copying layers led me to peel away the layers of the Paste Remembers Layers setting and discover a few things about how it behaves that I wasn't aware of. This...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 48 (VIDEO)
At last month's InDesign Conference in Miami, an unexpected blackout cut my typography session short, so my demonstration of OpenType features never saw the light of day (no pun intended). In this...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 49 (VIDEO)
Most of us are familiar with the two types of Paragraph Rules, but in InDesign, despite their names, a Rule Above can easily appear below your text, and a Rule Below can just as easily appear above it....
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 50 (VIDEO)
Inspired by a question from a podcast subscriber about creating a text frame that looks like a folder tab, and with the help of a technique suggested by another subscriber, this episode builds on the...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 51 (VIDEO)
Today, Adobe announces the Creative Suite 4 in all of its various iterations (Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium, and so on). This updated Creative Suite includes another evolutionary and...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 52 (VIDEO)
Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of work designing forms, which present their own unique design challenges, one of which is that more forms are being completed digitally as PDFs. As we’ll see in this...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 53 (VIDEO)
Checkboxes and radio buttons and comb fields…oh my! In this episode, I take a look at adding form elements to an InDesign layout to create Acrobat-friendly checkboxes, radio buttons and comb fields,...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 54 (VIDEO)
Launch day for Adobe's Creative Suite 5 is here, and so is my first podcast episode dedicated to the newest version of InDesign. In this episode, I take a look at a number of very cool new features in...
View ArticleThe InDesigner - Episode 55 (VIDEO)
Learn how to use GREP to describe all items in a list that begin with the same letter, then insert a space between and/or add an alphabetical heading to each alpha group. Covers GREP Find/Change,...
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