I opened an InDesign layout that another freelancer had created. When I looked at my Rulers, they were using Picas for the units of measurement. ...

In previous versions of Illustrator, if you wanted to crop a photo, it wasn’t very easy. You had to draw a rectangle on top of ...

If you Option (Alt)-click on any ICON (not button) in the Control palette, a dialog will open to enter all of your specifications. For instance, ...

The default colors for an object in Illustrator are a white fill with a 1 point black stroke. Sometimes I’ll get a little carried away ...

When working with Live Trace to convert a pixel image to vector, I always start with a Preset. With names like “Comic Art,” “Type,” and ...

I designed a brochure with two black-plate text layers, one in English and another in Spanish, so that each language could be output from the ...

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 ...

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 ...