InDesign Tips and Techniques
8h 26mIntermediate2023-03-17
Authors
Anne-Marie Concepción
Founder of InDesign Secrets, Adobe Certified Instructor
Course details
Anne-Marie “Her Geekness” Concepcion, co-founder of InDesign Secrets and Adobe-certified Creative Cloud Design and Layout instructor, hosts this weekly series exploring new ways to use InDesign and related software for creative work. Anne-Marie presents answers, how-tos, and cool discoveries for amateurs, pros, and everyone in between. She pulls in tips related to other software that designers use frequently, such as Acrobat, Photoshop, Google Docs, InCopy, and more, with a focus on how techniques in these programs can make your work in InDesign faster, easier, and more fun.
Skills covered
Digital PublishingSerial (Weekly)InDesignGraphic DesignAdobe
Concepts
New This Week
- 01 - Figuring out the page sizes in a mixed page-size layout
0. Introduction
- 02 - Welcome to InDesign Tips for Design Geeks
January-March 2023
- 03 - Add Pantone colors with the free Pantone Connect plugin
- 04 - Create multi-column layouts the right way
- 05 - How much storage space is left in your Adobe CC subscription
- 06 - Two ways to optically balance center-aligned headlines and pull quotes
October-December 2022
- 07 - 200 free or low-cost stock photo sites
- 08 - Import PDF comments into multiple InDesign files
- 09 - Print color separations to a PDF
- 10 - Secret resources for learning InDesign
- 11 - Locating all images linked to a layout without opening InDesign
July-September 2022
- 12 - Unearth those buried menu commands with Quick Apply
- 13 - Beware the little red dot
- 14 - Apply object styles automatically
- 15 - Troubleshoot issues with CC Libraries
- 16 - Script to unanchor text frames
- 17 - Use the discretionary hyphen
- 18 - Import word art into InDesign
April-June 2022
- 19 - You must back up your CC Libraries
- 20 - Rescuing deleted CC Libraries
- 21 - Undoing the MakeGrid script
- 22 - How to anchor a text-wrapped image to the beginning of a paragraph
- 23 - Four ways to quickly save and reuse layout elements elsewhere
- 24 - Why is my button text disappearing
- 25 - Three InDesign tips I learned from my clients in the past few months
- 26 - Design geek graduate school - Opening an IDML file to fix problems
- 27 - Make a keyboard shortcut to toggle Auto-Fit off and on
- 28 - Can't see your hidden characters It's either an obscure setting or a prank
- 29 - How do I love thee, word count Let me count the ways
- 30 - Oversets, begone Make text frames autosize by default
January-March 2022
- 31 - Add InDesign layouts to Creative Cloud Libraries
- 32 - Font recognition in images using the new Extract feature
- 33 - Slim down linked vector files for smaller PDFs
- 34 - Easily manage dozens of scripts among multiple InDesign versions
- 35 - Batch-search for InDesign files that use Adobe Type 1 fonts
- 36 - Top sites for free InDesign scripts
- 37 - Fix number kerning problems by using the Proportional Lining attribute
- 38 - Make sure original high-res images travel with CC Library items
- 39 - Navigate long InDesign layouts with these little-known keyboard shortcuts
- 40 - Start a file with a two-page spread
- 41 - Take advantage of styled Word files
- 42 - Creating reader-friendly PDFs of facing-pages documents
- 43 - Open EPUBs for editing and put them back together with this utility
October-December 2021
- 44 - Convert guides to strokes for fun and profit
- 45 - Create backup versions of your InDesign layout every time you save using Dropbox
- 46 - Fix character spacing problems by switching kerning methods
- 47 - Add a text frame to the middle of a text thread
- 48 - View effects of master page changes on document pages immediately
- 49 - Share a single layout with multiple designers concurrently
- 50 - When to use the Balance Ragged Lines feature and when not to
- 51 - How to convert an InDesign layout to Word format
- 52 - How to buy the fonts you love on Adobe Fonts
- 53 - Fast ways to find and fix overset text
- 54 - Tired of having to manage all the external image links Embed them
- 55 - How to find and download public libraries to your CC libraries
- 56 - The next best things to folders for organizing master pages
July-September 2021
- 57 - Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part one
- 58 - Get sharp vector art in your Publish Online files, part two
- 59 - Three tips for flexible headlines, tabs, and tables
- 60 - No source file for an EPUB you need to redesign No problem
- 61 - Customize how InDesign hyphenates a particular word
- 62 - How to use InCopy with InDesign
- 63 - Best practices for PDF commenting to share with your reviewers
- 64 - Scaling images in InDesign vs. scaling them in Photoshop
- 65 - InDesign default preferences that you should change
- 66 - From my script collection - Change the language in a layout
- 67 - Illustrator graphics in InDesign - Copy paste, or import
- 68 - Importing the Apple HEIC image format into InDesign
- 69 - How to mix page sizes in the same layout
- 70 - What's that blue happy face icon (and other mysterious hidden characters)
April-June 2021
- 71 - Make the Buttons and Forms library more accessible
- 72 - Search public domain stock sites from within InDesign
- 73 - Make animated GIFs with Photoshop and InDesign
- 74 - Hide the blue highlighting in PDF forms you create from InDesign
- 75 - Automatically break long URLs without adding hyphens
- 76 - Simplify that long list of forgotten CC Libraries
- 77 - Two sort of secret tips for sending files to clients via Dropbox
- 78 - Let InDesign distribute the public link for your Share for Review
January-March 2021
- 79 - Adding new Pantone Color book swatches to InDesign
- 80 - Use the 70,000-plus free Adobe Stock assets in your layouts
- 81 - Update the same text across multiple layouts at once
- 82 - Browsing styles of a particular character
- 83 - Acrobat and InDesign - Use the Acrobat Share tools to send out PDFs for review
- 84 - Tips for easy text extraction from old PDFs
- 85 - Export PDF document versions quickly from a single layout
- 86 - Extract high-quality images from PDFs to use in your layout
- 87 - Use the Find Color features to avoid problems on the press
- 88 - InDesign for beginners - The two tools and three commands you need to know
- 89 - InDesign for artists - Where are all the art tools
- 90 - InDesign for marketers - Finding and using templates
- 91 - How to turn off just one automatic ligature