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Actions have been a part of Photoshop for decades now, but many people simply fall into the habit of performing the same steps over and over without ever thinking of recording an action. However, short actions are easy to record, easier to run, and automating ordinary tasks leaves you freer to create. Over the next […]
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In the latest episode of InDesign Secrets on lynda.com, Anne-Marie Concepción shares some great tips and tricks for using InDesign’s fonts menus (found in the Control panel, Type menu, and Character panel). In the video, Anne-Marie shows the new features for searching fonts and creating a group of favorite fonts in InDesign CC. Both are hugely helpful […]
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Pattern swatches in Illustrator are typically used to cover large areas, and as such, precise placement of the swatch within each object isn’t typically a concern. I was recently approached to help solve a pattern dilemma, and the design I came up with is a takeoff on an Object Mosaic technique. This article will teach […]
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If you want to be among the first to know what’s next for Adobe Creative Cloud, you might want to highlight June 18th, 1PM Eastern on your calendar. That’s when Adobe will reveal “the next evolution of Creative Cloud.” Viewers of the streaming keynote presentation are promised a peek at hundreds of new features, all-new […]
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When it comes to creating space between paragraphs in InDesign we generally use the Space Before and Space After options. These settings suffice for continuous text flow. However when I work on single-frame stories, there are times when I wish I had access to what I’d call ‘flexible paragraph spacing’ in InDesign. I use two workarounds […]
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10 ways you can customize your work environment in the panels of the Preferences dialog box
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by Ben Richardson Adding hyperlinks to interactive PDF files in InDesign isn’t anything new. We’ve all been doing it since we started using InDesign, and it’s something quite easy to pick up. This tutorial is about a less conventional (but just as easy) way of making hyperlinks using invisible rectangles that you create with the Rectangle Frame Tool. […]
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InDesign power users spend a lot of time discussing how to make colors that reproduce accurately and consistently. But before you create a color, you need to know what color to create in the first place. Unless you’re confined to black and white or your clients’ brand colors, you need to create color palettes for […]
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