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InDesigner: Make: Magazine
is now part of CreativePro.com! This article appeared in Issue 66 of InDesign Magazine. Flip through the pages of Make: magazine and enter a world of gadgets, gizmos, and other Rube Goldbergian contraptions created by a cadre of mad geniuses. While the concepts behind these DIY tech projects boggle the mind, the instructions for making them are clear, thanks to thoughtful and precise layouts designed in InDesign. . . . . This article is for members only.
Accentuating Paragraphs With Borders and Shading - InDesignSecrets.com
Learn how to use borders and shading features to make your designs pop by adding a colored box behind a paragraph or a line around it, in any version of InDesign. Applying a shaded or colored box behind a paragraph, or a line around it, is a brilliant way to add visual interest to body text, as well as helping to draw attention to key items of text, like pull-out quotes and facts. But until recently, creating these effects has been tedious or difficult.
InDesign How-to Video: How to Work With Multiple Page Sizes in One Document - InDesignSecrets.com
Mike Rankin September 25, 2018 In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, Anne-Marie Concepción shows us how to work with multiple page sizes within a single InDesign document. She explains how to get those mixed page sizes using the Pages panel as well as with the Page tool.
InDesigner: Andrews McMeel - InDesignSecrets.com
From Hamilton and The New York Times crosswords to “This Is Us” and modern art, there is a calendar for virtually any of our interests. And Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal, is the leading publisher of calendars, producing over 180 different designs each year. We asked Senior Art Director Jenny Mohrfeld to take us through the inspiration, creative, and production processes behind Andrews McMeel calendars.
InDesign How-to Video: How to Set Up Facing Pages - InDesignSecrets.com
In this week’s InDesignSecrets video, David Blatner explains what facing pages are and when you might want to use them. Check out new tutorials every Tuesday on our InDesign Secrets YouTube channel, then join the discussion on our Facebook group!
The Art of the Menu - InDesignSecrets.com
When sitting down at a restaurant, most diners don’t think twice about the design of the menu. They want to know what the dishes are and how much they cost. A well-designed menu provides that information clearly and packages it in a graphically appropriate fashion. It communicates and entices while reflecting the personality of the restaurant. But there are a lot of, er, secret ingredients that go into that recipe.
Previewing Separations and Flattening - InDesignSecrets.com
Fellow printing aficionados, it’s time to show a little love to a couple of unsung heroes in InDesign—the Separations Preview panel and the Flattener Preview panel. They may not look fascinating, but think of them as detectives that can help you find problems, long before your job goes to press. This article from InDesign Magazine is for InDesignSecrets premium subscribers only.
Treasures From the Vaults - InDesignSecrets.com
You’ve probably heard about those amazing people who can remember everything they wore on every day of their lives, or can recall every line of every episode of Seinfeld from memory. We aren’t like that. We occasionally forget things (sometimes more than occasionally). We bet you do, too, and you probably appreciate a gentle reminder from time to time.
A New Stylus for the iPad
2 0 A company called Artist Hardware is about to release a stylus for the iPad that recreates the experience of drawing or painting in a sketchbook — the iPad. Priced at $39.95, the stylus works in conjunction with iPad artists’ apps like Paper or SketchTime. The Sensu also works on other capacitive or touchscreen devices. The Sensu Brush is actually two styluses in one. One end is a rubber nib that can be used for sketching while the other end if a brush used for painting.
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