by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign Updated Jan 29. 2024 InDesign has a robust set of numbering tools, but most users don’t do much more than set up basic numbered lists. Yesterday, in my Advanced Adobe InDesign class, a student asked how to number her chapters, subheads, tables and figures. It can be […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 22, 2020 Sometimes the appearance of a new feature in your favorite software application makes you immediately wonder how you ever survived without it. So how about those new line numbers in that showed up in Adobe FrameMaker 11? I wasn’t immediately bowled over by their […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Jan 21, 2021 In an earlier post, I showed how to assign a graphic to a paragraph style (see Adobe FrameMaker: More on Reference Pages). It’s a great solution when you want an image to appear above or below a given paragraph. However, two students in yesterday’s […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Photoshop CS6 Such a simple request, but not one of Photoshop’s most “discoverable” features. As a regular user of (raster) layer masks, I know that I can select a layer mask and choose Image > Adjustments > Invert (Cmd+I) to invert the display to quickly change a mask […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign CS6 Multi-story publications like newsletters and magazines often have stories that jump across pages. In a multi-story publication with jumps, it is helpful to add an end sign to signal the end of the story to the reader. It’s a two-step process: first, select the appropriate symbol, […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe InDesign Updated: Aug 06, 2023. Works on InDesign CS4 and all later versions Typesetting fractions is no fun, or at least it didn’t used to be. The introduction of OpenType fonts and the Glyphs panel were a great help, allowing point and click access to additional commonly […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Photoshop CS6 This question was posed to me recently by one of our IDUG Denver user group members: I’m using ID-CS5 (Mac), working on a book about presidents and it includes a photo section. One of the photos opens in Photoshop CS3 and appears to be OK but […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator Updated Set 12, 2016 Note: In Illustrator CC, this is a lot easier than it was in CS6. Make sure View > Show Corner Widget is enabled. Use the Selection tool to pull one circle towards the center to round the corners dynamically. Use the Direct Selection tool […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Photoshop CS6 I teach a lot of Adobe Photoshop classes, and have done so for the past 20 years. Somewhere along the way, I stopped mentioning the 5th zoom command in the View menu: Print Size. Not sure when, not sure why, other than perhaps I realized that […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe Acrobat X Professional From a recent Technical Communications Suite student: My document .pdf file screenshots are not very good. The screenshot in the original document is perfect, but the same screenshot in the .pdf is barely readable. Is there some type of setting I can adjust in Reader […]
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