Tips'n'Tricks

Notes on frames

InDesign has the ability to insert notes in text. These notes can be managed with the Notes panel (Window>Type & [...]



Better WYSIWYG font previews

InDesign has had the ability to preview fonts in the font menus for quite a while. You can even change [...]



Align your drop caps

Often when you create a drop cap in InDesign, the left edge of the character isn’t perfectly aligned with the [...]



Lose the guides

Did you know that InDesign has a Preview mode? Switching to the Preview mode is an easy way to hide [...]



Grid Place bonus tip

Add the Shift key to the Arrow keys in the above tip to change the amount of space between each [...]



Grid place

In CS4, the multi-file place feature got even better. You can now place all the files in the loaded Place [...]



Proportional place

When you click a loaded Place Gun on a page, InDesign creates a frame that’s the same size as the [...]



Panels only when you want them

I often hide my left and right panels in each of the modules by tapping the Tab key. The panels [...]



The Lightroom Exchange

Visit the Lightroom Exchange by opening the Plug-in Manager (File>Plug-in Manager) and clicking the Plug-in Exchange button. This website lists [...]



Relaunch and optimize your library

In the Catalog Settings dialog (Lightroom [PC: Edit]>Catalog Settings), click the Relaunch and Optimize button at the bottom to let [...]



Choose your background color

In the Slideshow module, you can select a color directly from one of your images to use as the background [...]



Creative compositions

Create two virtual copies (Photo>Create Virtual Copies) of an image, then select all three when using the Triptych template in [...]



Post-crop border effect

In the Develop module, set all of the Post-Crop sliders in the Vignettes panel to the far left to create [...]



Profiles for your camera

Now with Lightroom 2.2, new camera profiles are available natively in the Camera Calibration panel of the Develop module. These [...]



Turn from the dark side

In the Develop module, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the background that surrounds the image to change it from medium gray [...]