Tag Archive for: indesign

Transformative InDesign: Little Things Make a Big Difference!

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Take your production skills to the next level with these small but mighty tips for transforming objects, frames, and lines in InDesign. We’ll explore how to use a reference point (a.k.a. the “waffle pocket’) to precisely size and position frames on a page. Get ready to take control of your layouts and transform the way you work in InDesign!

Topics include:

  • Use object styles to automate repetitive object formatting and placement
  • Align and distribute objects like a pro
  • Use the Control panel to fine-tune object placement, rotation, flipping, scaling, and spacing.
  • Pro tips for transforming grouped objects

Simplify, Stylize, and Supercharge with InDesign’s Next, Nested, and GREP Styles

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Julie Shaffer is your leader on a transformative journey into the heart of InDesign’s styling capabilities. This session will delve deep into paragraph styles, specifically exploring Next Style, Nested Styles, and GREP Styles, the unsung heroes of text layout efficiency. And, when you add object style capabilities, you’ll see how these powerful features can simplify your workflow, add flair to your designs, and easily tackle complex formatting tasks.

You’ll learn:

  • How to take styles to the next level
  • Clever ways to boost your efficiency
  • Why styles RULE!

    • Sneak Peek:
    How to Quickly Format InDesign Layouts Using Styles

So You Think You Know InDesign

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You may have been using InDesign for years (or decades!), but there may still be a surprising number of things you don’t even know you don’t know—y’know? Join Prescott Perez-Fox for a fun eye-opening journey that will make you see a familiar app in a whole new way.

Topics Include:

  • Best practices in InDesign
  • Hidden InDesign features you likely never knew existed
  • Tips and techniques to surprise even seasoned pros

The Ultimate 5-Star Workflow: Making the Most of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Express, and Firefly

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Welcome to the future of creative workflows! In this session, you’ll learn how to harness the full power of five incredible Adobe tools—Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe Express, and Firefly—so you can work faster, smarter, and more creatively than ever before. It’s the dream team of Adobe apps, working together in perfect harmony to make your design process seamless, efficient, and, even a little magical. We’ll explore how each app fits into your workflow, how to transfer assets smoothly between them, and how to maximize the unique strengths of each tool. You’ll learn how to integrate them all into one smooth, multi-tool operation.

Topics include:

  • Discover how to seamlessly pass assets between Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign for a smooth design flow
  • Learn to use Adobe Express to quickly generate social media-ready assets that complement your larger projects
  • Tap into Firefly’s AI magic to accelerate your creative process, from image generation to style enhancements
  • Build a truly flexible, cross-app workflow that adapts to any project, big or small
  • Unlock the power of integrating AI with traditional tools for a dynamic, next-level creative process

InDesign—The “Right” Way

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You get there in the end, but is it always in the most efficient way? Under the hood, would your InDesign documents stand up to scrutiny? If there are serious edits to be made, would your document fall down like a house of cards? This session looks at ways to make InDesign’s document infrastructure and automation features work for you, not against you, and is for novices—as well as seasoned users who secretly suspect there is a better way.

  • Banish repetitive drudgery
  • Boss your text flow
  • Keep your documents tidy and problem free

25 Years of Timeless Tips and Tricks

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Since 1999, CreativePro has been dishing out amazing tips and tricks to help graphic designers work more efficiently, be more creative, and have more fun. In this session, CreativePro Editor in Chief Mike Rankin will share his favorite tips that have stood the test of time. This is no trip down Memory Lane; these tips are all just as cool and useful today as when they were first published.

This session includes awesome productivity tips for:

  • Photoshop
  • InDesign
  • Illustrator
  • Acrobat

GREP: You Know You Need This

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GREP is one of the most powerful features in InDesign, but sadly it’s one of the least used! In this introductory session, Erica Gamet will get you up to speed with this amazing tool for finding, changing, and formatting text patterns.

You’ll learn essential GREP techniques, such as:

  • The basics of creating an expression to easily find and format text
  • Finding a range of characters
  • Automatically formatting specific text within a paragraph style, such as fractions, keywords, or a company name

Grids: The Backbone of Design

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We know we should be using grids in our designs, but which ones? How do you choose? Where do you even start? Join Nigel as he shares invaluable insights, practical tips, and real-world examples to demystify the complexities of grid-based design. By the end of the session, you’ll not only understand the importance of grids but also be equipped to use them strategically for visually stunning and harmonious layouts.

You’ll learn:

  • The different kinds of grid: document, layout, baseline, and how to combine them
  • Strategies for working with grids in InDesign, as well as Illustrator, and Photoshop
  • Creative ways to break the grid for added impact

Taking the Fear Out of InDesign and Illustrator Scripts

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A carefully curated collection of scripts is guaranteed to up your game in both InDesign and Illustrator. In this session, you’ll discover how easy it is to find, install, and use an enormous variety of helpful scripts for both InDesign and Illustrator.

You’ll learn:

  • The easy way to reliably download and install any script in InDesign or Illustrator
  • The quickest way to run a script in InDesign or Illustrator
  • The best places to look online for high-quality, useful scripts
  • How to get started customizing scripts to adapt them for your needs

Game-Changing Techniques for Anchored Objects and Object Styles in InDesign

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This session is a must for anyone creating catalogs, manuals, or working with threaded text and related, location-specific graphics. It includes practical and imaginative tips for working with anchored objects in InDesign will save you a ton of time and completely blow your mind.

Laurie will share real-world problems and their anchored-object solutions, such as how to:

  • Hang a photo or icon next to a topic in a manual
  • Anchor an icon or graphic inside a table cell
  • Anchor a photo in a story and control the text wrap
  • Anchor a quote or comment box into a story
  • Create an object style that will allow you to anchor graphics precisely with one click