Posts by Ted LoCascio

Ted Locasio is a professional graphic designer and an expert in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, InDesign, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. He served as senior designer at KW Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) for several years, and has created layouts and designs for many successful software training books, videos, and magazines. He is the author of InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips, The InDesign Effects Book, and Combining Images with Photoshop Elements. He has contributed articles to Photoshop User magazine, InDesign magazine, Creativepro.com and has taught at PhotoshopWorld. Ted is also the video author of InDesign CS2 Essential Training, Font Management, Illustrator CS2 Creative Techniques, and Creative Suite 2 Integration: Print Project Workflow--all available at Lynda.com. He also teaches a Digital Graphics course at St. Petersburg College, in Seminole FL.

Create your own layer comps in InDesign

April 20 2009 • 11:37 AM

Frustrated that there are no layer comps in InDesign? Well, why not create your own?

Saving AI versions as layers and accessing them in InDesign

February 23 2009 • 11:25 AM

Use InDesign’s Object Layer Options to access different versions of a graphic stored in a layered AI file.

Editing the Default New Document Preset

February 9 2009 • 1:44 PM

What if the majority of the layouts that you create in InDesign don’t require facing pages?

INX missing link bug in IDCS4

January 22 2009 • 7:03 AM

Strange things are happening when exporting CS4 docs that contain missing links to INX.

The Dual Text Wrap Dilemma

January 9 2009 • 2:19 PM

Although you cannot apply an inverted text wrap and a traditional text wrap to the same object, there is a workaround.

Converting Glyph Characters Into Graphic Elements

December 19 2008 • 1:20 PM

You can use the Glyphs panel in InDesign to locate a dingbat character that will work with the theme of your layout.

CS4 Font Installation

December 5 2008 • 9:18 AM

Where are the fonts that come with CS4 being installed on your system?

Utilizing Alpha Channels When Placing Extracted Images

November 20 2008 • 12:34 PM

Start making good use of alpha channels when placing images in your InDesign layouts.

Skewed Text Path

November 14 2008 • 3:54 PM

Create Type That Twists and Turns

The Useless Drop Shadow Button

November 6 2008 • 6:32 AM

How can you make use of the Control panel drop shadow button and use your own custom settings? Unfortunately, you can’t.