Find a Whole New World of Precision in Find/Change
After six months of writing Tips of the Day for InDesign, I uncovered another feature that I can’t do without. The Find/Change feature (Edit>Find/Change), which ...
No Matter How You Slice the Pie
You’ve created a pie chart using the Pie Graph tool in Illustrator. With lots of beautiful alterations, your chart looks nothing like the standard Illustrator ...
Set Up Multiple-Page Layout
One of the most overlooked settings in the New Document Setup window is “Number of Pages.” If you know that you’ll be designing a 20-page, ...
The Key to White Fill, Black Stroke.
You’ve been playing around with all kinds of fills, strokes, and effects for selected objects, but now you want to get back to Default – ...
Custom Contact Sheets
Dave Cross shows how to use the Adobe Bridge and InDesign to make custom contact sheets.
Animating Basic 3D Motion
In this technique, we'll create a blend of 3D objects and export it as an animated Flash file. We'll create a series of objects that ...
Clear Your Table of Extra Cells
One of my advertising clients supplies price listings of sale items in an Excel file which I Place as a Table in my InDesign layout. ...
Combining Layers
You have created a very complex illustration with a lot of objects and numerous layers. As the illustration moves along to completion, you decide to ...