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InDesign Trainer Survey
Do you have experience teaching InDesign in a classroom setting? We’ve put together a short survey (7 questions total) to gather information from InDesign educators for an upcoming issue of InDesign Magazine. We’d love to hear about your thoughts and experiences teaching InDesign! Click here to take the InDesign Trainer Survey.
Continue readingFree Lynda.com Video: InDesign CC 2015 Creative Cloud Updates
Video course on Creative Cloud Updates shows all the latest InDesign features and enhancements.
Continue readingThe Digital Art Studio II: Duplicating Photoshop’s Smart Objects
This post is part of a series called The Digital Art Studio, in which Sharon Steuer shares her ideas for  integrating traditional and digital tools into a creative workflow. In recent years, I’ve evolved a process for creating collages that moves fluidly back and forth between traditional and digital tools. The source materials for the collages are my own traditional […]
Continue readingMystery of the Absent Artwork Contest Answer and Winner!
It’s time to reveal the solution—and the winners—for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest! Here’s the scenario: You’ve prepared a full-color ad that will be printed in a magazine. In your InDesign file, there are just two items, a background photo saved as a JPG, and a vector logo saved as a PDF. But when you receive a proof of […]
Continue readingInDesign Template Essentials: Tables and Cells
This set of Template Essentials includes styles for all kinds of tables, from the simple stuff to the complex tables-within-tables approach. Demonstrated table uses include coupons, catalogs, menus, sports stats, captions, and callouts. You can also see how to make fancy table effects like rounded corners and graphics.
Continue readingTop 10 Type Tips
Nigel French shares his most important hints and techniques for working with type.
Continue readingInDesign Template Essentials: Tables and Cells
InDesign templates for Premium InDesignSecrets members: table styles for creating menus, coupons, callouts, sports tables, rounded table corners, and more.
Continue readingThe Typographic Desk Reference, 2nd Ed.
Attention type lovers, users, and geeks! It is rare that I write about or endorse books in this column, but this one is worth breaking the typographic mold for, so to speak. The Typographic Desk Reference (TDR for short), 2nd edition, by Theodore Rosendorf, is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classifications whose […]
Continue readingTip of the Week: Using Optical Margin Alignment
With this InDesign tip for using Optical Margin Alignment you can create improve the appearance of columns of text by moving punctuation outside the column edge.
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