CreativePro Week 2020 In early February, I booked my airfare from Chicago to Austin TX (with a stop the night before to visit my brothers in Dallas). As a speaker, I had received my InDesign Conference session topics – Create Engaging Interactive Documents in InDesign and Styles, Next Level Tips. I was working on ideas …
CreativePro Week 2020 – The one during the pandemic Read More »
InDesign is such a versatile program. It can not only help you format the inside of your novel, but you can create the entire wrap around cover, the front, spine AND back cover. The great part about this method is that the spine is flexible, so if your content is updated, and the page count …
Learning InDesign can be daunting. The overwhelming number of buttons, settings and panels can be downright frightening. In this post, I’m going to outline ways to set up InDesign so that it’s efficient and you don’t have to hunt to find frequently used panels or change settings every time you begin to work. First, let’s …
Creative Pro Week is an annual event, for designers and creatives. It is the go-to conference for learning, networking, sharing ideas and getting truly inspired! It’s focused on the tools we designers use to do what we love to do, design. This year, it was held June 10-14 in Seattle, at the Downtown Westin. For …
You’ve created a document in InDesign. It’s time to export. There are so many choices out there. PDF for print and interactive. Publish Online, ePub, both Fixed Layout as well as Reflowable. Then there are all the third party enterprise plug-ins. My favorite way to export from InDesign is to use in5 by Ajar Productions. …
Let’s get Interactive with InDesign. What are my choices? Read More »
There are two delete keys. One deletes to the left and one to the right. If you think of the vertical open area on the keyboard as a cursor, you’ll always remember which way it goes. So now you don’t have to use your arrow keys to move to the end of a word to …
I remember my first job out of college. I was a designer (desktop publisher) at a local printer, using QuarkXPress – probably 3.0 or 3.3. I was making a brochure, and my text kept disappearing after I hit Enter. I was getting frustrated and kept closing my document without saving to start over. I finally …
There are 2 Enter/Return Keys on an extended keyboard. They are not the same. Read More »
If you’ve ever been in one of my classes, you may remember that “the phrase that pays” is SELECT to AFFECT. This means simply that if you want to bold a word, you must first SELECT that word. Then you can bold it. If you want to fill a square with red, you can’t just look …
If you have zoomed into your page, and would like to move that page around to see something to the side or top or bottom, many people will reach for the scroll bars, which in my experience, always go the wrong way. Another way is to use the Page Grabber Hand Tool. This tool looks …
Switching between the tools in InDesign can make you lose valuable time and make your arm hurt! My left hand is always on my keyboard, so I use my modifier keys to switch between my tools. Hold Command and Spacebar (mac) | CTRL and Spacebar (win) while you’re on any tool. The zoom tool will be …