Adobe InDesign is well-known for its publishing capabilities. With this powerful tool, you can create books, magazines, posters, brochures, flyers – more or less anything you can think of when it comes to print design. But did you known that InDesign has some other cool features?
Adobe and the Van Gogh's Dream app for iPad : During his stay at the Auberge Ravoux, an artist café located in the heart of Auvers-sur-Oise in France, Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter dated June 10, 1890 to his brother Theo: "Some day or another, I believe I will find a way to have my own exhibition in a café."
Designed by MNESTRA under the leadership of the Van Gogh Institute, the iPad app Van Gogh's Dream allows readers to discover the sensitive world of the artist and his work. This interactive and profoundly human experience has been achieved using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
Presented by Mr. InDesign Efficiency himself, author of the InTime InDesign Magazine column and the books Mastering InDesign for Print Design & Production, The InDesignSecrets.com Guide to What’s New in InDesign CS5 (And How to Use It), and others, and frequent speaker on InDesign productivity at the InDesign Conference, the InDesign Seminar Tour, and other conferences and events, this 3-hour workshop will teach you 10 amazing productivity techniques to speed your work in InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5 and reduce repetitive, wasted effort. Real World InDesign Productivity Secrets will have you spending less time on the boring, repeative, creativity-sucking tasks and more time doing what you love: being creative in InDesign for print design, tablet publishing, ebook publishing, and any other use you have for InDesign.
Ever wanted to put photographs inside text or create stamped or cutout text for your brochures? How about creating cast shadows of text for fliers? Making your own holiday cards or invitations? Why not create a collage of images inside the shape of a jack-o-lantern, valentine, or any shape? In this online course you’ll learn how to do all of that and more in just a few easy steps in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5.
Creating Cast Shadows (Not Drop Shadows, Real Cast Shadows)
Filling Text with an Image
Filling Text with Multiple Images
Creating a Letterpress Effect
Creating Illustrative Image Frames in 10 Seconds & without the Pen Tool
Tinting B&W Images
Coloring Text with Gradients
Creating Highlighted Text Effects
Turning Any Image Frame into a Polaroid
Creating Metallic Type
It's startling, though, how little information there is on the subject of going to press these days. I don't mean how to use InDesign's Print dialog or why you should use CMYK instead of RGB color swatches. I'm referring to best practices for going to press. My friend Sandee Cohen recently mentioned that she'd met a woman who, within the last five years, had graduated college with a graphic design degree—which included at least one full year learning in InDesign—but without any instructor ever having defined the word "prepress" or having explained how layouts get from InDesign to ink on substrate!
Some people don't even know why they should avoid the default and undeletable Registration color swatch; someone once said, "Don't use it," so they don't use it, without knowing why.
In this edition of InTime, I'll try to fill a few of those gaps. Hopefully even seasoned pressmen with ink embedded beneath their fingernails will find something herein to take away. And, I hope they'll write in and share some of their wisdom and time tested prepress truisms and techniques with me, so I can pass along that information in a future InTime.
By the time I’ve finished discussing the tricks of working efficiently with master pages, you’ll be able to stand up and howl, I’ve got soul, and I’m super bad!
Hands down, the answer was InDesign. At its core, BostonGlobe.com is a publication website, and InDesign is the best tool for laying out publications and content. Yes, there are huge differences between designing print publications and designing for the web, but consider this: Most web pages are simply a combination of photos and text. And where Photoshop excels at manipulating images (but sucks at type) and Illustrator is exceptional at typography (but sucks with images), InDesign is built for both.
Even better, InDesign’s internal logic parallels that of web design and development. Every new document begins with a grid. It uses type and object stylesheets that should be familiar to anyone who has used CSS, allowing you to change the characteristics of every headline (or object) from one master style.
Unimpressed by Adobe Systems' Creative Cloud, its forthcoming $50-per-month subscription plan? Adobe wants to change your mind.
The company offered some new details today to show people that the Creative Cloud plan gets people access to more than just the full Creative Suite (CS) Master Collection and tablet-oriented Touch programs. Specifically, according to Scott Morris, senior director of product marketing on Adobe's digital media team, there are these elements:
There was a chapter that I ultimately decided to leave out of “EPUB Straight to the Point” that I've been wanting to publish for a long time. It explains how to use GREP in InDesign to massage a plain text file so that it's easier to format. It shows how to get rid of extra line breaks, extra spaces, and how to convert special plain text formatting (underscores and carats) into their modern day counterparts, bold and small caps.
When the Creative Cloud goes live this spring it will be accompanied by Creative Suite 6, Adobe Touch Apps, Muse 1.0 and a preview version of Adobe Edge. Adobe Edge is Adobe’s new HTML5 motion and interaction design tool that is bringing Flash-like animation to Websites and mobile apps using the latest capabilities of HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Adobe Muse is the company’s product that enables graphic designers to create HTML Websites without writing code.
Though you cannot control individual x-heights via InDesign, you can use the Character palette to read the necessary information to help you select a suitable font. If you’re using several typefaces in a text-heavy undertaking such as a newspaper or magazine spread, then think carefully about x-heights. Having a high x-height in the body font makes it more legible, so pair this with a low x-height for the display or call-out font.
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There are many reasons why you might want to combine pages or objects from one or more InDesign documents into other InDesign documents. Perhaps you need to join unchanged pages from an old financial report with the new one; or use a previous design’s page geometry and elements as the template for a new project; or combine individual chapter INDDs into a single “book” that can be output as one long PDF; or... Whatever the case, InDesign has several paths to that end.
Efficiently create and design multiple versions of a layout for different devices and print needs, all within a single InDesign file.
It will be as easy as File > Export, very similar to the fantastic Interactive SWF exporter currently in InDesign, except that it will not rely on the Flash Player (and will thus work on mobile devices, including iPads and iPhones).
The exporter will present you with a dialog with basic options: page animation type, navigation style, font embedding, background color, etc. There will also be several advanced options tucked away: allow offline storage, keywords for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), etc.
A.J. Wood reveals a very useful workflow trick to utilize Adobe Bridge as a floating panel in InDesign CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, or CS6, and without having to resort to using the Mini Bridge panel.
This video is just one example of the many techniques, tips, and tricks that will be presented in the InDesign 3X5 Live Internet Event in October 2012. http://abbrv.it/ID3X5
Join Bob Levine and Pariah Burke for an InDesign and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite tutorial wherein Bob reveals a slick technique for creating a two-state, thumbnail and popup image for digital publications on the iPad.
This video is just one example of the many techniques, tips, and tricks that will be presented in the InDesign 3X5 Live Internet Event in October 2012. http://abbrv.it/ID3X5
Join April Clark and Pariah Burke for an InDesign tutorial wherein April explains the easy ways to:
- Import a Word DOC without Word's styles
- Replace fonts used in the Word DOC
- Assign character styles to all italics text
This video is just one example of the many techniques, tips, and tricks that will be presented in the InDesign 3X5 Live Internet Event in October 2012. http://abbrv.it/ID3X5
Many designers don’t realize how powerful InDesign can be, especially when expanded through plugins and scripts. So, we’ve put together a small collection to show a bit of what InDesign can do. More than anything, these will help you work through your documents and publications much faster, automating the repetitive parts, and freeing you to focus on the fun stuff.