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InDesign Template: Restaurant Menu
This template for a restaurant menu comes in both letter and A4 sizes. It’s organized with layers for guides, menu items, backgrounds, and art, plus a set of paragraph styles to apply to the text. The styles use free fonts that you can download from FontSquirrel.com and use in commercial projects.
Continue readingHow to Create Connector Lines in Keynote
Making flow charts isn’t the most glamorous job, but the same principles and design can be employed to create an infographic or to convey movement in a layout. The best way to force a reader to follow from one object to the next is by using connection lines. You could certainly lay them out in […]
Continue readingFree InDesign Template of the Month: Restaurant Menu
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Continue readingThe Transform Panel Mystery Contest Answer and Winners!
It’s time to reveal the solution—and the winner—for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest! Here’s the question: In the screenshot below, the image is selected. Why are there + signs next to the X and Y values in the Transform panel and what do they mean? The answer is that the placed image—not the frame—was selected with the Direct Selection tool. […]
Continue readingReview: FontExplorer X Pro 5
Font management is a fact of life for all creative professionals, and while the technical nuts-and-bolts of the process can be mind-numbingly complex, font management utilities also have features that are outrageously useful, educational, and fun. In this story, we’ll explore some designer-friendly features of Monotype’s FontExplorer X Pro that will get your inner font geek jumping […]
Continue readingTip of the Week: Viewing Tool Hints
This tip was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on September 17, 2015. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new InDesign Tip of the Week and Keyboard Shortcut of the Week, along with roundups of new articles at InDesignSecrets and CreativePro, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll all the […]
Continue readingInDesign Tips and Tricks: Working Efficiently with Values
Anyone who uses InDesign for more than two minutes a day knows that there are a lot of numbers to be entered in panels and dialog boxes throughout the entire layout process. The little boxes we put amounts in are called value boxes. From document size, to drop shadow amount, to X/Y co-ordinates, to point […]
Continue readingExploring OpenType Pro Fonts, Part 2
Last week we started an in depth look at the features of OpenType fonts. Let’s continue now with a review of typographic gems like contextual alternates, all small caps, stylistic sets, and more. See also: Adobe Drops Fonts, Leaves Users Stranded Contextual Alternates These are alternate characters often found in script typefaces to provide a more […]
Continue readingThere’s No Logos Like Show Logos
Originally published on January 30, 2009 Depending on who you ask, my musical tastes run from “eclectic” to “total dip.” I’m just as comfortable listening to television theme songs and commercial jingles as I am obscure 1980s punk bands or movie soundtracks. So I can get away with humming just about anything around the house […]
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