Posts by Mike Rankin

Gridiron Flow is a slick, powerful visual workflow management tool that shows the connections between your files. Check it out. But be warned: you may never be the same afterward.

Come on a fantastic voyage to see pixels as big as houses. Enter dark places, where InDesign gurus fear to tread. Cooler than Kuler? Kinda.

Could Bridge be a little “nearsighted” when it comes to seeing the fonts some InDesign files need?

What’s black and white or red all over? Your document in a blender (mode).

Unlike Photoshop and Illustrator, InDesign doesn’t have pattern swatches that you can use to fill an area with a repeating pattern. But it’s easy enough to make your own pattern swatches from scratch, and apply them via step and repeat.

Start with a rectangle. It doesn’t have to be a perfect square, but make its dimensions [...]

More cool goodies to extend the geek lifestyle.

Eye candy punchouts, stickers, rips, and burns.

Here’s how to polish up your graphics and make ‘em shine.

Why should all the Photoshop and Illustrator kids have all the fun, when you can cook up a batch of eye candy right in InDesign? Here’s how to give your text a case of five-o’clock shadow.

Don’t get “flattened” by surprising changes in the resolution and color space of your graphics when you export to PDF.