March 23, 2012
By Mike Rankin on InDesignSecrets.com
We spend so much time and effort to make things look perfect in InDesign. Now it’s time to make something look really bad. But in a good way!
Basically, the effect is meant to make a photo look like it was roughly cut out of a piece of paper, so there’s a light border around the subject, but the border is irregular and it does not follow the silhouette of the subject exactly. This effect is a lot of fun and it’s super easy to make and adjust. Remember all that time and effort you put into learning how to make sweet Bezier curves with the Pen tool? Forget it. Your aim here is to do the worst silo job of your life. Well, after you do a good silo job in Photoshop first.
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October 18, 2011
By Mike Rankin for InDesignSecrets.com
It’s no “secret” that InDesign has a boat load of preferences. Press command/ctrl+k and you’re met with a dialog box offering eighteen sets of preferences. I was going to count how many individual settings there were, but even I’m not that much of a geek. Suffice to say, there’s a lot. One key thing to remember as you traipse through all those settings: some are application-wide and will affect your interactions with all documents, others will only affect the current document. You need to close all open documents to make changes in document-specific preferences apply to new documents (otherwise you’d just be changing the preference for the current document).
So how can you tell which ones are document-specific?
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September 19, 2011
By Keith Gilbert on InDesignSecrets.com
What is the minimum image resolution required when creating a document or screen that will be viewed on an iPad? The answer might surprise you.
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September 5, 2011
By Mike Rankin on InDesignSecrets.com
Learn how to build a cool custom license plate with InDesign FX and pick up some key tips to use with all FX as you go.
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By Steve Werner on IndesignSecrets.com
When you’re creating interactive PDF files, hiding your sound files is surprisingly tricky. Here are a couple of tricks to help.
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By Mike Rankin on InDesignSecrets.com
The Control panel is teeming with hidden shortcuts to other panels, preferences, and dialog boxes. Here’s not one, but four maps, to reveal them all.
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August 10, 2011
Amazon’s Kindle Publishing Team released a new help file to help InDesign users publish to the Kindle, and the file itself practices what it preaches: it’s an InDesign document. Neat.
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July 13, 2011
By Anne-Marie Concepcion at InDesignsecrets.com
EPUB and HTML exports are more accessible with descriptive ALT tags you can apply with CS5.5′s Object Export Options. This script adds the missing “Apply to All” function.
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By Steve Werner in InDesignSecrets.com
You might want to set page breaks in an EPUB using two different paragraph styles in InDesign CS5.5. Here’s how.
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June 21, 2011
By David Blatner in InDesignSecrets.com
In which an exploration of why a PDF file is too large leads to two discoveries and an awesome tip
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