theInDesigner - Episode 1
This audio-only podcast outlines what the goal of this whole endeavor is; a little bit about my background, mostly related to working with InDesign; a few (justifiable) jabs at QuarkXPress; and a quick...
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Since it's a four-day Thanksgiving weekend, I thought I would spend some time covering four things in InDesign that I'm thankful for. In this podcast, I cover (1) text formatting without having any...
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I love Photoshop as much as anyone, but I don't love jumping back and forth between my page layout application and my image editing application. In this first installment of a two-part podcast, I...
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In the second installment of "Get Out of Photoshop Free", I cover the good, bad and ugly about drop shadows -- how easy they are to create and how to make yours more effective -- within InDesign. Also,...
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As a designer, you know that when you get all the necessary elements onto your page, you can make something great, but getting those elements on that page was a pretty inflexible process back in the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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