More than 40 tips, techniques, and secrets of the InDesign masters for working with images, shapes, swatches, Gridify, and every type of object!
Watch these 1–5 minute videos à la carte to master working with objects in InDesign.
This on-going course from Pariah Burke will give you dozens of tips, tricks, and techniques to help you master working with objects in InDesign. Don’t miss Pariah’s other Mastering InDesign series courses.
Course Contents
- Embedding Images
- Relinking Embedded Images
- Extracting or Unembedding Embedded Images
- Determining Is It Vector Or Is It Raster?
- Copying the Path of Missing Links
- Editing Original in Batch
- Using Tints
- Creating Tint Swatches
- Recoloring Tint-Colored Publications
- Tinting Greyscale Images
- Convert Clipping Paths To Frames
- Reversing Paths Instead of Redrawing
- Corner Options on Arrows and Other Paths
- Using all the Different Copy, Duplicate, and Paste Commands
- Speeding Duplication with Step and Repeat
- Working with Gridify Behaviors
- Using Gridify on Different Types of Objects
- Controlling Gridified Elements’ Gap Size
- Using the Gap Tool
- Aligning and Distributing Objects and Spacing
- Aligning to a Key Object
- Single-Click Selecting All Objects On Layer
- Creating Two-For-One Guides
- Placing Guides On Pages Or On Spreads
- Anchoring Objects to Wrap Lines They’re On
- Locking Objects
- Relocating the Rotation and Shear Axis
- Transforming Again and Again Individually
- Transforming Again With Multiple Transformations
- Suppressing Printing of Placeholder Items
- Designing Custom Stroke Styles
- Coloring Stroke Gaps
- Drawing Triangles
- Drawing Starbursts and Seals
- Putting an Image Inside Text
- Realistic Drop Shadows: Drop Shadow Settings
- Realistic Drop Shadows: Shadow Color
- Realistic Drop Shadows: Add Noise
- Realistic Drop Shadows: Position
- Understanding and Changing Global Light
- Knowing When Not To Use Global Light
- Copying Effects to Other Objects