To Find Swatches Faster, Use Your A, B, C's
As additional swatches are added to your Swatches palette in a document, it can be more and more difficult to find the one you’re looking ...
Undoing Beyond Your Last Save
Multiple Undo’s (Edit > Undo) may be a new feature in other layout programs, but it has been around for a while in InDesign. Depending ...
Offsetting a Problem of Scale
At some point in the continuous learning curve of Illustrator, nearly everyone comes across a particular problem when using the Scale tool. Draw an amorphous ...
A Star Is Born
Last evening I got a call from an artist who’s an expert in Adobe Illustrator but just learning InDesign. He asked, “Where is the Star ...
Pasting a Style with the Same Name
Recently, I stumbled across a tip totally by accident. I was copying formatted text from an older brochure layout and pasting it into a new ...
The Slice Tool Is Not a Knife
From questions I’ve gotten from artists, there seems to be a lot of confusion out there about the Slice tool. It is NOT the same ...
Help with Commands
A student who was looking to increase her efficiency wanted to print out charts of InDesign Commands. “Does a chart of keyboard commands come with ...
Previewing a Non-Bleed Ad to the Trim
The other day, I was showing a non-bleed ad to a client on my monitor to get his approval before sending it to the magazine. ...