Changing the "Proportions" of a Color Group
When you double-click on a Color Group folder in the Swatches panel, the Live Color dialog will open, showing a color wheel in the Edit ...
Line-By-Line Leading
Leading is one type of formatting feature that’s entirely different in InDesign than in Quark. In InDesign, each line within a paragraph can have a ...
Get the Most of Out of Your Screen Area
The new interface goes a long way in providing artists with a lot more open screen real estate to work within. But wouldn’t it be ...
Reordering Your Panels Within a Panel Group
One thing that was a problem in earlier versions of InDesign was changing the order of the palettes in a palette group. If you weren’t ...
Two Ways to Work with the Eraser Tool
In playing with the new Eraser tool, I discovered that there’s actually two totally different ways to use it. The first way is to select ...
Links Panel Buttons Have New Icons
The command buttons at the bottom of the Links panel have all changed except for the Edit Original button with its pencil icon. Don’t let ...
What's Up with My Layers Panel
The very first question I got from a student about Illustrator CS3 was about Isolation Mode, which can be used to isolate a group or ...
Edit Original Shortcut
When I first switched to InDesign from QuarkXPress, there was one feature that I missed terribly. In Quark, you could double-click on an image with ...