The InDesigner

Inspired by a question from a podcast subscriber about creating a text frame that looks like a folder tab, and with the ... Read more

Most of us are familiar with the two types of Paragraph Rules, but in InDesign, despite their names, a Rule Above can ea... Read more

OK...Christmas has already come and gone, I know, but it's still technically the holiday season, and the title of this e... Read more

How would you like to have all versions of your (or your client's) logo available in one placed file and never have to w... Read more

Picking up right where the last episode finished, I continue to edit and adjust my Table of Contents, demonstrating the ... Read more

No, this isn't the white space you learned about in design school. Rather, this episode takes an in-depth look at all ei... Read more

When you complete 4 full-page ads, 19 charts and graphs, and 123 page layouts in 24 working days, you really see how InD... Read more

If you're using tracking to control the look of your type at the paragraph level -- like I will confess to doing in the ... Read more

When you actually read the InDesign User Guide cover-to-cover -- which I did to study for my recent Adobe certification ... Read more

Add bells and whistles to your rows and columns in the conclusion of the three-part Tables series. Examples of real-worl... Read more

The second installment of the Tables series gets down to the smallest details. This "intermediate" episode covers the se... Read more

If you haven't already discovered InDesign's robust table-creation feature, you're going to be quite impressed by what i... Read more

As designers, we have a lot of stuff we need to have at our disposal quickly. But finding a place for that stuff and kno... Read more

Picking up right where Part 1 left off, this second installment on Nested Style Sheets shows how you can build in additi... Read more

At long last, the video podcast that was "a week away" (according to my optimistic first episode) is finally here. This ... Read more

How does a person go about learning InDesign? What's the best way? What resources are available? Where do you you start?... Read more

One of the most long-awaited featues for a page layout program has been transparency support -- and InDesign's got it. B... Read more

I love Photoshop as much as anyone, but I don't love jumping back and forth between my page layout application and my im... Read more

Learn how to use GREP to describe all items in a list that begin with the same letter, then insert a space between and/o... Read more

Launch day for Adobe's Creative Suite 5 is here, and so is my first podcast episode dedicated to the newest version of I... Read more