Gradients are a gradual blend of colors or shades of the same color that can create stark visual effects in an InDesign project. You can use gradients as backgrounds or shapes in your document, or set ...

In designing, keeping things uniform can make the work neat. When the gradient, does not follow the direction of the warp, it can make the design look less attractive. This is not the case with all ...

Although Adobe announced InDesign CS3 this week, it will be a while before it gets into general use in the field. In the meantime, here are a few of my favorite tips for working with text in the ...

Text on a path, or type on a path, is text that follows a specific shape. In page layout programs, such as Adobe InDesign, and graphics programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, a path is a line drawn with ...

Illustrator and InDesign are two top-performing software by Adobe. Illustrator is mainly for graphics and InDesign is mainly for text. InDesign is great for designing documents for offices, online use ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is an excerpt from Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, by David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepción (2005; reprinted by permission of Peachpit Press/Blatner Books). The make ...