New InDesign Videos from Conference on YouTube
January 11th, 2008It seems like each week there are more tips about InDesign on YouTube. Some are pretty dull, and some are excellent. Here are two great tips that went up recently, both little excerpts from The Creative Suite Conference last fall in Chicago, one by Mordy Golding and one by Ted LoCascio. The first 10 seconds of the videos appear to be all messed up, but hold on for some good stuff.
Of course, the youtube display quality isn’t exactly stellar, but you definitely get the gist of the tip. And if you want even more of these kinds of tips, why not show up at the next MOGO conference! Anne-Marie and I (plus Michael Murphy, Sandee Cohen, Claudia McCue, Steve Werner, Mordy, Ted, and many others) will be speaking at The InDesign Conference in Miami next month.
And, of course, in the meantime, if you want more free and excellent videos, with higher display quality, check out our videocasts here at InDesignSecrets.
Ted LoCascio’s link has been removed from youtube.
Oh no! It looks like the person responsible for uploading those is trying to fix the problems in the first few minutes. I didn’t realize he was going to take it down in the meantime.
I’ll disable that link until we can get a new URL, I hope later today.
That tip from Mordy Golding is really useful, I use it all the time when creating my books. During the draft stage of my chapters, I use different colored text for each draft (first draft, second draft etc.) so that both the reviewers and myself can keep track of which changes were made during each stage. (I’m not using InCopy in my workflow so can’t make use of it’s Track Changes feature…)
When it comes to finalizing the book, I change the swatches to black in one chapter and use the Synchronize option to update all the swatches in all the other chapters. I can’t believe I used to do this manually, now it’s all done in seconds!
I also oved that tip in the video from David about selecting the docs in Finder, keeping the mouse button pressed, shift-tabbing to InDesign and dropping them into the book panel. I’m sure that will come in handy some day….
Regards,
Maarten
The tips at the conference were GREAT, and it’s fun to see them again on YouTube. It’s too bad that the video with Mordy’s tip ended where it did and didn’t continue on to an alternative (easier?) method of changing color across multiple documents (use Find/Change) that another tipster shared.
I hope they’ll continue posting some videos from future conferences for those of us who can’t attend them all
AWESOME! didn’t watch anything yet (at work) but…
AWESOME! (wraaaa)
Looks like its up again. I relinked to the new Ted video.
What would be the difference in using a gradient and then changing the blendmode to Multiply as in the video or setting a transparent feathering on the gradient as we can now in CS3?
I see how this is the way for CS2, but in CS3 we even can ‘drag’ the transparency. Hold your mouse on the gradient tool and you will get your transparency tool. To me the results seems the same applied to the black/white gradient. Am I missing something?(again! My brain is slow this week)
The same for the Type example. Simply place white type on a separate black frame, then drag the feathertool over the textbox the way you like. Or set it in the effects-panel. Same result. Again: CS3 only…
The result is indeed somewhat different I See in comparing the two, but the transparency feather does the job well. The blendmode gives some more details in the shadows, true
Another TIP, see also my blog in Dutch*;
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you can do some things with a single frame. Place a graphic, make a simple white to black gradient. Now fill the picture frame with the gradient. You will see that nothing happens if the frame fits the picture exactly. Now select the Direct Select tool (the ‘white arrow’) and select the picture in the frame. Now set the blendmode for the Picture to Multiply in the Effects-panel: same effect but now within a single frame.
(well, that is ‘almost’ the same
You can also use this method to ‘colorize’ a picture without using a second frame using other blendmodes for the picture.
*www.http://fvdgeest-dtp.blogspot.com/
Wa, I had the same question when watching Ted. Of course, there is always more than one way to do the same thing. My guess is that Ted wanted to use the CS2 method because more than a third of the people at the conference were still on CS2.
>My guess is that Ted wanted to use the CS2 method because more than a third of the people at the conference were still on CS2.
Sure, in CS2 this was the only way. But as I saw he was using CS3 I was a bit thrown off. Anyway, I did a lot of posting here I see (again with many typo’s!), to much time on my hands I guess