What is InDesign?
New Table of Contents
- You Still Use Quark?!
- Making Changes Easier with Master Pages
- Avoiding Disaster with Paragraph and Character Styles
- Understanding InDesign Layers
- InDesign Shortcuts
- InDesign Training and Resources on Amazon
- How to Match Colors and Styles Across Multiple InDesign Documents
- InDesign Help: Speeding Up Formatting and Changes
- How to Set Up a Consistent Baseline in InDesign
- InDesign Project Walkthrough
- Are You a Quark User?
- Wacom Tablets are Helpful for All Creative Suite Products!
- Helpful InDesign Links and Websites
- New Guestbook
You Still Use Quark?!
If you'd like some more information, Creative Curio has a series of articles about InDesign. For the first post, click here.
Making Changes Easier with Master Pages
Ok, so maybe that's an extreme example, but can you just see it? Forget today! Changing all those elements on every page would take a century! If only you had set up your master pages and paragraph styles before you started%u2026
Want to learn how? Check out Making Changes Easier with Master Pages!
Avoiding Disaster with Paragraph and Character Styles
Paragraph styles are pretty easy to understand, but character styles can be a little more confusing. They are just as important, though!
Understanding InDesign Layers
Understanding InDesign Layers on Creative Curio was added to the Adobe LiveDocs documentation on November 8, 2007 by one of the Adobe writers, so you know it's a great resource!
InDesign Shortcuts
Shortcut Shindig - InDesign is a one-stop shop for the essential InDesign shortcuts!
InDesign Training and Resources on Amazon
How to Match Colors and Styles Across Multiple InDesign Documents
InDesign Help: Speeding Up Formatting and Changes
How to Set Up a Consistent Baseline in InDesign
First, you should be familiar with the points and picas system, and also how to use them.
It will require a bit of planning, but your documents will turn out much more organized and consistent.
Learn how to set up a consistent baseline in InDesign.
InDesign Project Walkthrough
Need to see what it's like to work on an InDesign Project from start to finish?
The first article was on Grids, Guides and Baselines and I talked about setting up my project file before I even opened InDesign.
Next I went over Setting Up Master Pages and Styles, where I continue down the road of good file prep practices and look at the Master Pages and text styles. These are all very important steps! Don't skip them for the sake of saving time at the beginning. You'll regret it later when you have a messy file and you'll probably be embarrassed to pass it on to another designer.
If you need some help Working with Text and Images, look no further! All the setup details are out of the way and it's time to start compiling everything and watch the final document take shape.
The document is almost done, just some formatting with Lists, Tabs and Final Details left.
And I had one more reader request, so I went back and added another article, Bleed and Layering Master Pages. In this article, you'll get an in-depth view about how to use Master Pages creatively to minimize the amount of work you need to do.
Are You a Quark User?
Wacom Tablets are Helpful for All Creative Suite Products!
Helpful InDesign Links and Websites
- You Still Use Quark?!
- The first article in the InDesign series on Creative Curio.
- InDesign Secrets
- Great blog with tons of articles on the features of InDesign. By one of the authors of Real World Photoshop (an invaluable Photoshop resource)
- InDesign Project Walk-Through
- The first article in the InDesign Project Walk-Through series on Creative Curio.

