InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
One of my favorite tips from my InDesign Tips for Design Geeks course! Add InDesign layouts to Creative Cloud Libraries from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks by Anne-Marie Concepción
One of my favorite tips from my InDesign Tips for Design Geeks course! Add InDesign layouts to Creative Cloud Libraries from InDesign Tips for Design Geeks by Anne-Marie Concepción
One of the hardest things about putting a publication together has been around for literally decades: Editors are from Mars, designers are from Venus. That is, the people who write and edit the content do not use the software that is used to layout (and ultimately, print, or upload as a PDF) that content. Editors…
A long time ago I did this video but it still applies! Diagnosing and fixing bizarrely formatted text from Word and InDesign: Integration by Anne-Marie Concepción You should be able to see this video in this post without being jumped to LinkedIn, even if you’re not a member of LinkedIn. Please let me know if…
In this series, David Blatner & I, Anne-Marie Concepción, share some hidden and sometimes surprising workflow tips that will make working in InDesign more efficient and more fun. The course covers built-in timesaving features such as Quick Apply and auto-expanding text, but also little-known tricks, such as using the eyedropper to copy and paste character and paragraph text…
InDesign gets better every year. 2020 is no exception. This new course is your tour of the latest and greatest, and will keep you up to date with new features as soon as they are released. I review the refreshed interface as well as the changes that take place under the hood, such as stability,…
I’m thrilled to welcome you to one of my favorite topics and LinkedIn Learning courses, Using Word and InDesign Together. In this course, we’ll start out by learning how Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign work with styles. You’ll learn, what I have come to call, best practices for flowing and formatting Word texts into InDesign,…
I’m happy to share with you one of my favorite courses at LinkedIn Learning: Collaborative Workflows with InCopy CS5. In this course, we’ll learn how Adobe InCopy and InDesign can work together, enabling editors and designers to collaborate on publications, with no additional hardware, software, or expensive publication management systems. Discover how to set up the workflow, how…
Want to make your own ebooks? Get a basic introduction to the exciting and evolving world of digital books. In this beginner-level course, I explain how to use, create, and sell ebooks, including reflowable, fixed-layout, Kindle, PDF, and multitouch ebooks. The tips in this course can help you choose the right format and the best…
Need to share assets between the Adobe and Microsoft suites? When it comes to Creative Cloud and Office, the exchange goes both ways. Clients provide Excel charts for designers to edit in Illustrator; salespeople need an InDesign brochure in editable PowerPoint form. But with sharing, there can be technical challenges to overcome, since the platforms…
An InDesign template is a beautiful thing. If you find yourself creating the same kind of document over and over again, a template can save you a tremendous amount of time. Working with other designers? A template can help make sure you’re all on the same page. And, if you need to get clients up…