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.

Utilizing Alpha Channels When Placing Extracted Images

By: Ted LoCascio

November 20 2008 • 12:34 PM

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

Skewed Text Path

By: Ted LoCascio

November 14 2008 • 3:54 PM

Create Type That Twists and Turns

The Useless Drop Shadow Button

By: Ted LoCascio

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.

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 2 and InDesign CS4

By: Ted LoCascio

October 28 2008 • 9:25 AM

Extensis apparently will not be offering a free upgrade to Suitcase Fusion users who have upgraded to CS4. Unfortunately, if you’d like to continue using auto font activation with InDesign CS4, then you must pay for the Suitcase Fusion 2 upgrade ($49.98).

I’ve been using the previous version of Suitcase Fusion, and it appears as though [...]

What’s My Resolution?

By: Ted LoCascio

October 21 2008 • 1:36 PM

Finding proper resolution is easy in CS4’s Links panel

Tags: Links, Resolution
Posted in Beginner's Corner, CS4, Images | 17 Comments »

Creating Gatefold Spreads

By: Ted LoCascio

June 23 2008 • 10:20 PM

Gatefold spreads contain more than two adjoining pages and are commonly used for large brochures or ad designs. To create a gatefold spread in InDesign, select a page (single-sided document), or a spread (facing pages document) by clicking their respective thumbnails in the Pages panel. Then choose Allow Selected Spread To Shuffle from the Pages [...]

Preview Applied Fonts

By: Ted LoCascio

June 4 2008 • 3:17 PM

Not sure which font you’d like to use in a layout or design? Try scrolling through the font menu and previewing each font that you currently have activated on your system as it’s applied to your text selection.

To do so, select a text frame with the Selection tool (or Direct Selection tool), press T to [...]

Just One Wish: A Bridge Panel

By: Ted LoCascio

May 19 2008 • 1:10 PM

Hi. I’m Ted LoCascio and I’m the newest contributor here on the InDesignSecrets team. Before I get started with my first rant, I’d just like to say thanks to David and Ann-Marie for allowing me to be apart of this excellent online resource.

Recently, the other newest member of the IDS team, Bob Levine, posted an [...]