About A.J. Wood

A.J. Wood is an Adobe Community Professional & Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Lightroom & InDesign. He is a NAPP Evangelist, belongs to the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) and is an instructor for the Special Kids Photography of America (SKPA). Ranked as the #1 Adobe instructor worldwide, more than once, A.J. actively creates content for the art & technology communities. You can catch him daily at ajwood.com

Illustrator Symbols, Part 2

In part two of this series, AJ goes over the symbol tools and their tool options. He covers the sprayer, the sizer, the shifter, stainer, and the screener tools.

Illustrator Symbols, Part 1

In part one of this series, AJ Wood goes through the symbols panel which allows Illustrator users to reuse artwork quickly throughout their Illustrator document. In this video, AJ covers making symbols edits in the isolation editing mode, creating new symbols, using multiple instances of one symbol, and exploring the symbol libraries.

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AutoFit Images in InDesign CS5

Learn how to use the new autofit options in InDesign CS5 when scaling and sizing frames and picture content.

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Page Numbers in InDesign CS5

AJ Wood opens up InDesign CS5 and talks about easy ways to add page numbers, continued page numbers, and sections to your InDesign document.

Clipping Masks in InDesign

Without a dedicated menu item for creating a clipping mask, InDesign need to know the tricks for getting an image into a shape or text. AJ Wood shows InDesign users how to use the paste into command to insert an image into any fill-able frame or shape and to create a clipping mask from text.

Bullets and Numbering in InDesign

A.J. Wood talks about bulleted and numbered lists in InDesign. These tips include how to create a forced line break inside a bulleted list, how to import lists from other documents, how to create paragraph styles to use with bulleted lists.

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