Don’t you worry, print and packaging designers. We haven’t forgotten about you!
This week’s shortcut cheat sheet is for Adobe InDesign — beloved by magazine-makers and brochure-creators everywhere! It’s also handy for creating posters or infographics (it’s what I used to create this series).
Don’t use InDesign? We have a whole series of shortcut cheat sheets: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop or CorelDRAW.
Don’t see your favorite program? Let us know! We’ll queue it up for next time.
Kaitlyn is part of the Community Team at 99designs.com. She grew up in Boulder, CO and went to school at Northwestern University in Chicago. When she's not blogging, she spends her time having adventures and being generally creative. She's all about having new experiences as often as possible!
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It’s a multi-screen world with your audience accessing content from various devices. InDesign now helps you create multiple versions (not multiple layouts) of your layout to adapt it to different screen sizes AND all this, from a single InDesign file. With all new Liquid Layouts, forget spending time on fitting your content into different sizes based on orientation. See these new features in action ->
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-design/getting-started-with-the-new-liquid-layout-and-alternate-layout-features-in-indesign-cs6/?sdid=JUMNA
http://cs6-adobe.blogspot.in/2012/06/what-is-indesign.html
Adobe Illustrator CS6:
The shiny new Illustrator tracing tool engine will convert those raster images into vectors with accurate fitting, super fine and clean lines in just a few simple steps. How? -> http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-web/pattern-creation-in-illustrator-cs6/?sdid=JUMNB
Imagine a gradient that is aware of strokes and let’s you choose different ways to adapt to it. Never again will you have to worry about gradient adaptations and you don’t even have to convert your strokes to outline. Add this with Pattern creation tools that let you create repetitive flexible patterns and it’s sure to be a visual treat.
http://cs6-adobe.blogspot.in/2012/06/whats-new-in-illustrator.html
I’ve been struggling to align a re-recording dialog for this video I shot at school and a friend suggested I try the new Audition CS6 from Adobe with this new ADR tool – http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs6-creative-cloud-feature-tour-for-video/how-to-use-auto-speech-alignment-in-audition/?sdid=JUMNF I have to say it’s made my life so much easier. You can get the demo from here – http://www.adobe.com/in/downloads/?sdid=JUMTN and trust me, it’ll save you a lot of time.
Photoshop – Using the new three-part Blur Gallery
Powered by the new Mercury Graphics Engine, the Blur Gallery allows you to apply and combine three kinds of blur. Use it to create depth-of-field effects in post. This highly versatile filter also allows you to customize specific points of blur and focus.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-cs6/using-the-new-three-part-blur-gallery/
I started playing with InDesign CS3 as an amateur and sort of figured it out by myself over the past few years. Fortunately, the magazine I work for doesn’t need much more than page layouts so I managed without any real professional help. Recently when they decided to go digital I kinda shat myself. Fortunately this roadshow video
http://www.adobecs6vod.com?sdid=KABYU
helped me learn a lot about interlinking, dynamic layouts and all that and basically gave me enough confidence to take on this new project head first!
I started playing with InDesign CS3 as an amateur and sort of figured it out by myself over the past few years. Fortunately, the magazine I work for doesn’t need much more than page layouts so I managed without any real professional help. Recently when they decided to go digital I kinda shat myself. Fortunately this roadshow video –
http://www.adobecs6vod.com?sdid=KABYU
helped me learn a lot about interlinking, dynamic layouts and all that and basically gave me enough confidence to take on this new project head first!
I work for a magazine and use a lot of InDesign. My boss got me the new version and I had no clue what the new features were till I heard of Adobe’s roadshow video! Just go here and check out the new features of all their software!
http://www.adobecs6vod.com?sdid=KABYU
Now I don’t just work on InDesign, but have started experimenting with flash as well!
I’ve been a big fan of Adobe’s software and often upgraded to the latest suites to keep up with the technology. This time around, I bought CS6 but there were just sooo many features that I couldn’t keep up with. I watched truck loads of demo videos for each individual software but remembering it all is pain. This roach show that they hosted
http://www.adobecs6vod.com?sdid=KABYU
was really helpful because it gives me all I need to know, in one simple palce!
Adobe were kind enough to host a roadshow covering all the new features from CS6 software including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and much more. The session was really helpful and the evangelists were friendly and very welcoming. You can check out the video here –
http://www.adobecs6vod.com?sdid=KABYU
and get all the help you need with your new software suit!