RC Concepcion goes over 4 invaluable tips for document dimensions, placing images, and resizing frames automatically in Indesign CS5.
Author: RC Concepcion
Rafael Concepcion (RC) is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and the co-host of Layers TV - The How To Podcast For Everything Adobe. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 10 years in the I.T. and ecommerce industries and spends his days developing content for all applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. RC has held training seminars in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and recently combined his photographic and web experience to teach with famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson at the "You Can Do It Too" workshops in Mammoth, CA and at the Voices That Matter Web Conference in San Francisco, CA. RC also writes columns for Layers and Photoshop User magazines.
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What’s the deal with the videos? None of the tutorial videos on layersmagazine seem to play on Mac. Tried Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Others have reported similar issues.
I’m on a Mac, and the videos work fine for me in Firefox.
When you’re placing an image you can cycle through them, but sometimes images are similar and you’re not sure which one is which, you can go to the Links Panel (Window>Links) and the images are shown in the Links Panel, the one with LP written beside it is the image that is currently Loaded in the Placeholder.
As you cycle through your images using the Left and Right arrow you can see the file name in the links panel.
Did you forget to include an image, perhaps the images were in a random other? You can CTRL click (CMD click on Mac) to select files not beside each other.
You need to add another image, no problem go to File>Place and select another image and that is loaded. You put the wrong image in there, no problem – hit ESC to remove an image from the placeholder.
The AutoFit is ok – but remember to turn it off when you’ve finished transforming.
A quicker way to do this is to select the images and then press CTRL SHIFT (CMD SHIFT on Mac) and then while still holding those keys resize your images.
The last one helped, and i kept on wondering where did my shift+ctrl+alt+click+drag went! Aaaah! they just made it into the Auto Fix check box.
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I just wrote in about an Illustrator tutorial not working and now the InDesign ones aren’t either. I tried it on Firefox first and then Internet Explorer on pc. When that didn’t work I tried it just now on Safari. The only thing I get on all 3 is the ad in the beginning.
Please help!!
Thanks,
Mary
Hey RC wondering if the following is possible. . .
I have a diary that was designed especially to set and achieve your goals with an emphasis on visualizing and manifesting. I want it to be an app for smart phones and from your traditional this would be easy but i also want customers to add to it. . . fill in their diary pages, goals etc. add images on their vision pages etc. . . is this possible?
It’s call My Success Diary.
Thank you in advance and love your tutorials.
Regards
Sibraa
Great tips for someone like me who isn’t InDesign expert (yet!). Huge thanks!