InDesign CS5: Multiplace Images

By Terry White in CS5, InDesign, Learning Center, Tutorial, Video Tutorials
Friday April 23, 2010

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This tutorial goes over the new minibridge feature in InDesign CS5, as well as the ability to place multiple images, build multiple frames, and the new autofit command.

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Author: Terry White Terry is the author of Secrets of Adobe Bridge from Adobe Press and co-author of InDesign CS/CS2 Killer Tips, from New Riders. Terry is Worldwide Creative Suite Design Evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc., and has been with Adobe for over a decade, where he leads the charge in evangelizing and showing Adobe’s Creative Suite products to users around the world. Terry is both an Adobe Certified Expert and Creative Suite Master. He has been active in the industry for over 20 years and is the founder and President of MacGroup-Detroit, Michigan’s largest Macintosh users’ group, and is a columnist for Layers magazine. Terry is the host of the top-ranked Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast and author of the world renown Best App Site (your source for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch app news and reviews; www.bestappsite.com), Terry White’s Tech Blog (http://terrywhite.com/techblog), and is a key presenter at major industry shows around the world.

Eugene (Reply) on Friday April 23, 2010

Mini Bridge – I wish they didn’t call it Mini Bridge. Bridge as a stand alone application is very slow and for that reason I stay away from it. But the mini-bridge looks impressive for CS5. I just wonder if it slows down the app at all?

Placing the images like that is a feature already in CS4 – the only difference is the AutoFit which is impressive but I suspect, like all demos I see of Adobe software, that images are hand-picked that work specifically well for the demo. I’m just not sure how in the real world this will work. Images I have to place often are not the same size, scale, pixels, resolution etc. so it’s usually a crafty time in resizing the images to fit and show what is needed. The images used here are generic and don’t really reflect a real world scenario, I think. In reality I would spend time resizing and sharpening the images in photoshop and making them the correct PPI for output, but normally time doesn’t permit this so you just place all the images you were given into the layout and downsample on output.

I’m just not sure how autofit is going to help when the photographer is standing too far away, or too close, or you get a images that are all different size ratios. Still seems like you need to spend time adjusting the scale and position of images in the real world scenario. It would have been cool if a link optimiser had been included in the update, or something. Autofit will do for a first time placement, but I can see a lot of adjustments after it’s placed still needed.

Live Corners – that’s handy and the object style is quite impressive, but not really too impressed with a function that allows a rounded frame – again it’s made easier than the dialog box which was always a pain, but it’s hardly a new feature. It scrapes by as a new feature.

These things look like great time-savers and collectively make a great addition to InDesign, but I’m not all that impressed with them. But I reserve my judgment until I get a chance to use them.

For a demo it shows some good stuff.
Deb (Reply) on Friday April 23, 2010

I like the tutorials, but I do them at work, and don’t appreciate (one bit) the extreme volume increase of the music at the beginning and end of each tutorial. It is disruptive and annoying.
Eugene (Reply) on Friday April 23, 2010

I hate the way the video started playing as soon as it loaded? I’m listening to an indesign podcast and this video blared over it. Please change.