Images Posts

You’ve heard me say it before: The more you customize InDesign to the way you work, the more efficient you will be. Here’s a little way you might want to customize InDesign: Add a Place command to the context menu! Most people choose Place from the File menu or press Command/Ctrl-D, but some folks find [...]

Splitting a frame into a grid of smaller frames isn’t that hard… once you know the secret!

Find/Change is not just for text or object attributes. A frequently-overlooked feature, Change to Clipboard Contents, is your key to quickly inserting hundreds of repeated inline graphics, replacing their text placeholders.

If you’re tired of having to do the whole File > Place routine over and over just to switch pages in a placed PDF or INDD file, try this Relinking tip. It may not be much faster but it’s a change of pace.

Need to import multi-page INDD and PDF files into InDesign? You need this script.

I’ve been using transparent PSD files from Photoshop since the release of InDesign 2.0. I still remember the first time I used one and experienced a feeling of wonderment I’d never felt before when laying out a page. I felt free from the rigors of faking backgrounds with full page TIF files or drawing clipping [...]

Some of you may have experienced the LabelGraphics script that ships with InDesign. It’s a very cool script written by Olav Martin Kvern that lets you quickly create captions for all the images in your document. The captions can be based on each file’s name, file path, XMP description, or XMP author. (XMP is the [...]

I love it when I learn how to do something that can’t be done. Even if it’s a workaround — a kludge, a hack, or whatever you want to call it. I walked into Mike McHugh’s images session at The InDesign Conference today for 2 minutes and saw him present something I didn’t think was [...]

NC wrote: I’ve created a rectangle with one round corner and I use it several times in different appearances (flipped, rotated 180-degrees, and so on). Is there a fast way to make these elements “forget” their previous transformations so the photo placed into them won’t get rotated or flipped as well?

Great question! I thought there was a way to do this in CS2, but unfortunately my copies of CS and CS2 were wiped out in an industrial waste accident (or something like that). So I’m staring at CS3 and thinking, jeez, there has to be a menu item to do this… but there isn’t. So it’s time for a workaround…

Juliana wrote: Why is it that in CS3 I can no longer rescale/resize both the image frame and the content using the option-command-period and option-command-comma keystrokes? (Now all the keystroke does is resize the frame.) This is a shortcut that I’ve come to count on, and not having it available it slowing me down tremendously.

Sometimes when we get an email from someone, I’m sure — absolutely sure — that we have covered this before in a post, and the person just didn’t try hard enough to find it. This was one of those times, but upon searching myself, I quickly realized that I think we forgot to write this one up properly! The subject came up back in a discussion in the show notes of Episode 56 and sort of in this post, but that’s hardly easy to find! So, with embarassment, here’s the deal…