Adobe Creative Suite 2 Killer Tips Collection, B&N Exclusive Edition by Scott Kelby

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
CHAPTER 1
Basic Training!
Basic Tips You Can't Live Without
Make Yourself Famous 2
Additional Content 3
More Additional Content 4
Wacom Pen Tablets Work in Illustrator Too 5
Ongoing Feedback 6
Timing Is Everything 6
The Ever-Changing Palette 7
Quick Delete from Palettes 7
Locking and Unlocking Guides 8
Choose the Best Selection Tool for the Job 8
Direct Selection Secret 9
Quick Selection Tool 9
Hide Bounding Box 10
Quick Move Dialog 10
Selecting the Next Object Below 11
Create by Measure 11
Position Shapes as You Draw 12
Drawing Curves More Easily 12
Simplifying a Path 13
Select None 13
Everything Else But 14
What Happens When You Can't See an Object? 14
Even It Out 15
Reflect vs. Flip 15
Tool Preferences 16
Name a Swatch 16
Reset the Default Fill and Stroke Colors 17
Color Picker 17
Hide or Show Multiple Layers Easily 18
Filters vs. Effects? 18
Edit Existing Patterns and Symbols 19
Use Text Import Options 19
Scale Text Frame But Not Text 20
Multiple Glyph Choices 20
Effecting a Stroke or a Fill 21
Transform Again 21
Create Your Own Crop Marks 22
Open a Template 22
Make Your Own Template 23
Save for Microsoft Office 24
View Actions in Button Mode 24
"Hidden" Keyboard Commands 25

CHAPTER 2
The View
Viewing, Doing, Undoing, and More
How Many Undos? 28
Actual Size, Fit in Window 28
Really Fit in Window 29
Switching Between Multiple Open Windows 29
Default Workspace to the Rescue! 30
Your Own Personal Workspace 31
Give Your Custom Workspace a Shortcut 31
Control Bar Getting in Your Way? 32
Palette Shortcuts and Control Palette All in One 32
Center That Guide 33
Center Guides Automatically 33
Change Guide Direction 34
Make Guides from Objects 34
Lock a Guide to an Object 35
Change Locked Guide into a Path 35
Lock Everything Else 36
Get a New Perspective on Guides 36
Auto Add Rulers to Every New Document 37
Measure from Where You Want 38
Reset the Rulers 38
Change Ruler Measurement 39
Measure the Way You Want 39
Multiple Tools? 40
Your Logo Ready Anytime 41
Simulate Paper Color 42
Show/Hide Center Point 43
Angled Grid 43
Everything You Wanted to Know About… 44
Get Object Info 44
Actions Within Actions 45
Save That View 45
Two Views, One Document 46
Pinpoint in the Navigator 46
Hide and Show Palettes 47
Change Your Mind in Mid-Zoom 48
The One-Slide Slide Show 48
Remember One Palette Shortcut 49
Zoom Tool Shortcut 49
Hand Tool Shortcut 50
Keep Only Selected Objects 50
Be Precise 51
Front and Center 51
Seeing Red 52
Add the Unrecordable 52
Hide Your Guides in One Click 53
Free Resources 53
Back To Basics 54
Don't Squint, Click 54
New Document the Same as Last Time 54
Reset the Page 55
Change Tools Quickly 55
Multiple Pages? 56

CHAPTER 3
Tool Time
Creating in Illustrator CS2
Photo Inside of Type 60
Start with a Font 60
Mapping Made Easy 61
Find Your Favorite Logo? 61
Change Star Shape, Part One 62
Change Star Shape, Part Two 62
Send Up a Flare 63
Permanent Pathfinder 63
Spray On, Spray Off 64
Years in Graph Data 64
That's Out of One Hundred 65
Edit Graph Designs 66
Sliding Graph Designs 67
Drag-and-Drop Instead of Copy-and-Paste 68
Change Tool Settings on the Fly 68
Make Your Own Spirograph 69
Convert to Shape 69
Let the Blend Tool Do the Math 70
More Blending 71
Yet More Blending 71
Bend the Blend 72
Shapes Around a Circle 72
Change the Blend 73
Outline Stroke 73
Live Trace Not Working How You'd Like? Try This 74
Is Live Trace Still Not Working How You'd Like? Take It a Step Further 75
Viewing Reference Photos When Using the Mesh Tool 76
Gradient Brushes 77
Divide Objects Below 78
Change Grids on the Fly 78
Live Interlocking Objects 79
Live Interlocking Objects, Part 2 80
Creating Wireframes 80
Add to a Shape to Create a Shape 81
Move Points as You Draw 81
Auto Add/Delete Getting in Your Way 82
Multiple Objects as a Mask 82
Round Those Corners 83
Same Width and Height 83
Changing Arcs 84
Close a Path Automatically 84
Preserve Brush Stroke Options 85
Disable Auto Add/Delete 86
Split into Grid 86
The Perfect Star 87
Target Practice 87
Opacity Masks 88
Vintage Texture Effect 89

CHAPTER 4
Nip/Tuck
Selecting, Editing, and Transforming
Save a Selection 92
Reshape Paths by Drawing 92
Reshape Paths by Painting? 93
Editing a Type Path 93
Cut or Add a Point 94
Join vs. Average & Join 94
Average and Join in One Step 95
The True Center 95
Bigger or Smaller a Bit at a Time 96
Scale Tool Cloning 97
Keep Proportions 97
Quick Flip 98
Liquify Brush Size 98
Select Same, Again 99
Select Color from Swatches 99
Selecting Groups 100
Selecting Mesh Points Easily 100
Selecting Multiple Mesh Points Easily 101
Let Illustrator Calculate It for You 101
Editable Transformations 102
Rotate with Care 102
Rotation by the Numbers 103
Repeat Last Pathfinder 103
Transform by Number 104
Free Transform 104
Pick The Best Transformation 105
Select Behind 105
New Stroke Options in Illustrator CS2 106
Scale Strokes & Effects 106
Odd Numbers 107
Move and Copy 107
Straight Cuts 108
Move It by Measure 108
Draw and Smooth 109
Simplify Path 109
Magic Wand Not Working? 110
Copy While Transforming 110
Transform Again and Send to Back 111
Transform Again, Again 111
Aligning the Fast Way 112
Align to a Specific Object 113
Convert Dashed Stroke to Outline 114
Make a Mesh with Text 114
Drag-and-Drop 115
The Missing Twist Tool 115

CHAPTER 5
Different Strokes
Colors, Swatches, Fills, and Strokes
Your Colors, Every Time 118
Slightly Lighter, Somewhat Darker 118
Grab Only the Color 119
Make Your Own Patterns 119
Transform Just the Pattern 120
Color the Opposite 120
Use Global Color 121
Borrow Some Color 122
Persistent Swatches 122
Color from Anywhere 123
Gradient Palette Shortcut 123
One-Color Gradient 124
Color Stop 124
Duplicate a Color Stop 125
Swap Stops 125
Use a Swatch as a Stop 126
Quick Stroke Change 126
Change Color Modes in the Color Palette 127
Use Multiple Strokes in Appearance 127
Round Joins 128
Apply Sampled Colors 128
Change Live Paint Behavior 129
Same Color Again 129
Fill and Stroke from the Keyboard 130
None in a Hurry 130
Want the Opposite? 131
Make a Spot Color 131
Complementary Colors 132
Invert the Color 132
Replace One Swatch with Another 133
Grayscale or Color Gray 133
Find a Color 134
Grayscale Print from a Color File 134
Save Swatch Libraries 135
Expand a Gradient 136
Test Page 136
Fade to Nothing 137
Use Preview Bounds 138
One-Time Preview Bounds 138

CHAPTER 6
Sultans of Swing
A Killer Collection of Illustrator Artists
Scott Hinton 142
David Pounds 143
Philip J. Neal 144
Mike Sellers 145
Todd Ferris 146
Scott Weichert 147
John Schwegel 148
Jib Hunt 149
Brooke Nuñez 150
Erwin Haya 151
Mark Anderson 152
Christian Musselman 153

CHAPTER 7
Get Smart
Layers and Transparency
Dim Images 156
Name the New Layer 156
White Really Isn't White 157
Hide Other Layers 158
Change One Layer to Outline View 158
Change Other Layers to Outline View 159
Release the Layers! 160
Copy an Object to a Layer 160
Duplicate the Entire Layer 161
Select Everything on a Layer 162
Select Everything on Multiple Layers 162
Lock All Other Layers 163
Use Layers to Unlock Individual Objects 163
Locate Layer 164
Jump to a Layer 164
Custom Layer Row Size 165
Expand All Sublayers 165
New Layer on Top 166
New Layer Below 166
Target a Layer 167
Moving Targets 167
Moving Targets, Part Two 168
Paste Remembers Layers 168
Mirror Reflections 169
Layer Comps? 170
Selecting Multiple Layers 171
Move Objects to a Different Layer 172
Vector Templates? 173
Don't Print 174
No Sublayers 174
Hide Template 175
When Select All Doesn't Work 175
Merge Selected 176
Collect in a New Layer 177

CHAPTER 8
Extreme Makeover
Symbols, Brushes, Appearance, Filters, and Effects
What Is New Art Has Basic Appearance? 180
Effect Gallery 180
Scrubby Sliders 181
Creating Arrowhead Designs 181
Symbolism Chooser 182
Using the Eyedropper to Sample Appearance 182
Drag an Appearance 183
Merge Styles 183
Instant Lichtenstein or Pop Art Dot Effect 184
Apply the Same Effect Again 185
Filters vs. Effects? What's the Difference? 185
Reset Effect and Filter Settings 186
Add a Second Stroke 186
Drop Shadows 187
Check Document Raster Effects Settings 188
Breaking a Link to a Style 189
Disappearing Effects When Switching Between RGB and CMYK 189
Add Stroke to Placed Image or Photo 190
Redefine Symbols 191
Viewing the Intensity of the Symbol Tools 191
More Intensity, Different Size 192
Change Multiple Symbols 192
New Symbol and Instance 193
Select All Instances (and Replace Them Too) 193
Replacing Symbols 194
Reverse Engineering a Graphic Style 194
Why Are Some Filters and Effects Grayed Out? 195
See 3D Effects While You're Applying Them 195
Rotate 3D Objects the Right Way 196
Creating a 3D Banner 197
Adding Text to the Banner 198
Get Your Artwork in 3D 199
3D as a Style 200
Stain Removal 201
Scatter Brush Options 201
Scatter Enhancers 202
Symbol Stacking Order 202
Make Your Own Bevels for 3D 203
Stain Repellant 204
Getting More Symbols in Illustrator 204
Free! 1,000+ Scientific Symbols for Illustrator 205
Brush Options vs. Options of Selected Object 206
Birthday Brush 206

CHAPTER 9
Trading Spaces
Text, Text, Text
Selecting Text 210
Picking the Next Word 210
Select by Paragraphs 211
Change the Default Font in Illustrator 212
Pick a Font by Name 213
Move All Tabs at Once 213
Change Tab Style 214
Delete All Tabs 215
Evenly Spaced Tabs 215
Tab Leaders 216
Line Up the Tab Ruler 216
Align On 217
Angled Tabs 218
Scroll the View with Text 219
Quick Edit 219
Hanging Indents 220
Reset All Settings 220
Colored Text, Colored Box 221
Horizontal to Vertical Type 221
Kern from the Keyboard 222
Tracking with the Keyboard 222
Control Number of Recent Fonts 223
Font Preview—Or Not 223
Reset Kerning and Tracking 224
Open and Start Editing 224
Edit Imported Text 225
Reset Horizontal Scaling 225
Set Leading to the Font Size 226
Increase or Decrease Leading 226
Convert Paragraph Text 227
Cleaning Up Your Text 228
Make Your Own Typeface 229

CHAPTER 10
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
…And More Text
Transforming Type 232
Drag-and-Drop Text from Desktop 232
Before and After Legacy Text 233
Type Size by Math 234
Gradient-Filled Text 234
Hide the Highlight 235
Clear the Override 235
Override the Override 236
Load Styles from Other Documents 236
Angled Margins 237
Character Rotation 237
Convert Warped Text to Outlines 238
Edit Warped Text 238
Type on a Circle 239
Stop Flipping 240
Baseline Shift Amount 240
Type Not on a Path 241
Copy from Text 241
Thread Text into a New Box 242
Hide Text Threads 243
Threaded Text Blocks of Any Shape 244
Stop the Threading 244
Thread Text on Two Paths 245
Text Wrap Around a Photo 245
Make a Fraction 246
Don't Have an Open Type Font? 246
Automatic Ordinals 247
Global Change Case 248
Blend Two Text Objects 249
Your Styles in Every Document 249
Columns and Rows Galore 250
Columns and Rows in Any Shape 250
Turn Off Typographer's Quotes 251
Pull It Together 251

CHAPTER 11
Friends
Illustrator with Other CS2 Applications
Export in Photoshop Format 254
Open an Illustrator File In Photoshop 254
Place an .ai File into Photoshop 255
Drag-and-Drop into Photoshop 255
Drag-and-Drop from Desktop 256
Open a PSD File in Illustrator 257
Place a PSD File into Illustrator 258
Place in Illustrator from Adobe Bridge 259
Change Between Embedded and Linked Graphics 260
Editing Linked Images 260
Vector Shapes in Photoshop 261
Without Warning 262
No Visible Image 263
Copying-and-Pasting Between Illustrator and Photoshop 263
Drag from Illustrator to Make a Path in Photoshop 264
Your Illustrator Logo Built Into Photoshop 265
Export Paths from Photoshop 266
Borrow Shapes from Photoshop to Use in Illustrator 266
Common Color Settings 267
Take Your Swatches Anywhere 268
Info for Photoshop 269
Metadata Templates to Save You Time 270
Show Images or Photos in Outline Mode 271
Dashed Lines in Photoshop (Thanks to Illustrator) 272
Stop Clipping When Saving as an EPS 273
Illustrator Layers in Acrobat 274
Open a PDF in Illustrator 275
Place a PDF with Spot Color 275
Sending a File to a Service Bureau 276
Reduce File Size 276
Cleaning Up Your Illustrations 277
Save for Older Versions of Illustrator 277
Trial Separation 278
Printing Even Larger Than Illustrator Will Let You 279
Save Preset for Printing 280
Saving Print Settings 281
Save for Web Right Within Illustrator 281
Start Over in Save for Web 282
Remember Your Save for Web Settings 282
Optimize by File Size 283
Flattener Preview 283
Get Your Gradients to Print 284
Miss the Old Gal? 285

ADOBE InDESIGN
CHAPTER 1
Who's Zoomin' Who
Navigating and Other Essentials
Undo a Zoom? You Can with This Hidden Shortcut 2
Set Your Own Defaults 2
The "Jump to Any Page" Shortcut 3
Get to the First Page Fast! 3
Open or Close All Your Side Tab Palettes with One Click 4
Speed Tip: Highlighting Fields 4
New Docs without the New Document Dialog 5
Reset the New Document Dialog 5
Save Time when Creating New Documents 6
See Your Whole Spread Onscreen 6
Fit Spread in Window Even Faster! 7
Not Just the Page or Spread—See the Whole Pasteboard 7
Speed Zooming 8
The Speedway to a 100% View 9
Jump to a 200% Enlargement of Where You're Working 9
The Secret Zoom Field Shortcut 10
Better Navigation While Zoomed In 10
Switch to the Zoom Tool Temporarily 11
Choose When Your Baseline Grid is Visible 11
Those Pesky Ruler Guides 12
Your Toolbox, Your Way 12
Float the Control Palette 13
Shrink the Control Palette 13
Manage Palette Clutter 14
Fit More in Your Layers Palette 15
Make an Ãœber-Palette 15
Set Your Workspace Once, and It's Yours Forever! 16
Hide All Palettes and Toolbox with One Click 16
One Click Hides Palettes, But Leaves Toolbox Visible 17
Hide Just Palettes 17
Side-Tab a Group of Palettes 18
How to Preview Your Document 18
Save Every Open Document with One Keystroke 19
A Bigger View in the Navigator Palette 19
I Want to See It All 20
The Five Most Important One-Key Tool Shortcuts 20
No Keyboard Shortcut? Make One! 21
Coming Over from QuarkXPress? Use Quark Shortcuts 21
Print Your Custom Keyboard Shortcuts 22
Bring Back Those Hidden Warning Dialogs 22

CHAPTER 2
Stereo Type
Tweakin' Your Text
The Type Tool Super Shortcut 26
The Hidden Options for Type on a Path 26
Set Your Type Defaults 27
Set Default Character and Paragraph Styles 27
Fast Font Size Changes from the Keyboard 28
Jumping Up 2 Points at a Time Not Enough for You? 28
Waiting on the Real Text? Fake It 29
Tip for Magazine and Newspaper Editors 29
Make Your Own Custom Placeholder Text 30
Control Palette Stunts (Swapping Type and Paragraph Fields) 30
Type Preferences Shortcut 31
The Secret to Kerning Visually 31
Why are Parentheses in My Kerning Field? 32
Tighten the Space Between Words Visually 32
Adjust Leading Visually 33
Adjust Horizontal Scaling Visually 33
The Speed Lane to 100% Horizontal Scaling 34
Don't Know the Right Point Size? Just Drag Your Text 34
Changing Multiple Text Blocks at Once 35
Apply Character Formatting to Multiple Text Blocks 35
Shortcut to the New Character Style Dialog 36
Shift Baseline without the Character Palette 36
Get Rid of Those Nasty Double-Spaces 37
Get Rid of Weird Characters 37
Faster Fixes for Bad Characters 38
Make That Sentence All Caps the Fast Way 38
Highlight Character Palette Fields Fast 39
Quick Type Tweaking in the Character Palette 39
Find the Right Font Fast—Scroll Through Them 40
Jump to the Right Font 40
Change Fonts Automatically, without Style Sheets 41
Paste Text into InDesign 41
Paste Text while Retaining Your Type Formatting 42
Drag-and-Drop Text into InDesign 42
Get Control Over Your Imported Text 43
How to Deselect Everything 43
One Column to Multi-Columns the Fast Way 44
Need a ™? How About a ©? 44
How to Use Glyphs 45
Glyph Characters Too Small? Head for the Mountains 45
Five Key Shortcuts for Selecting Text 46
Edit While You Check Spelling 46
Save Time When Checking Spelling 47
Voilà! The Trick to Spell-Checking Foreign Languages 47
How to Stop a Word from Being Hyphenated 48
It's Okay to Use the Bold Shortcut 48
When Fonts Collide (How to Add Ligatures) 49
Set Type Justi�cation the Fast Way 49
Indent Paragraphs (How and How Much) 50
Doing a Pull Quote? Better Hang Those Quote Marks, Bunky 50
Add Drop Shadows to Text 51
Make Your Text Frame Fit the Text 52
How to Move Objects While Your Text is Selected 53
Get Live Text Wrap Previews While You Move 53
Apply Gradients to Editable Type 54
Faster Text Frame Moving 54
Get the Grabber When You've Got the Type Tool 55
Choose Custom Fonts and Sizes in Story Editor 55
Access Master Page Text Frames on a Regular Page 56
Use the Right Dash 56
Not Just a Space. A "Special" Space 57

CHAPTER 3
Color Blind
Working with Color
Drag from Palette to Palette 60
Create Your Gradients with Drag-and-Drop 60
Create a Default Set of Colors 61
Steal Colors from Another Document 61
Not Just for Text Style Sheets—But Color Style Sheets Too 62
Eyedropper Trick #2 62
Save Time by Dragging and Dropping Color 63
Delete Multiple Swatches 63
If You Didn't Use It, Lose It 64
Merge Swatches 64
Change the Order of Your Swatches 65
Save Tints as Swatches 65
Avoid Tint Weirdness 66
Tint Weirdness #2 66
Name Color Swatches After Their Values 67
How to Name Swatches (And Why You Should) 67
Load the Pantone Colors 68
Import Just a Few, Or All, of the Pantone Colors 68
Speed Through the Swatches Palette 69
The Smart Way to Edit Swatches 69
Speed Through the Color Ramp 70
Get Solid Black, Or Solid White, in One Click 70
Get Your Colors in Gamut with One Click 71
Create Perfect Shades 71
Get the Color Palette into Tint Mode 72
Help with Creating Colors 72
One Click to No Fill or Stroke 73
Swap the Fill and Stroke 73
Return to the Default Black Stroke, No Fill 74
Drag-and-Drop Colors from the Toolbox 74
Get Live Gradient Previews 75
Reapply the Last-Used Gradient 75
Color Management when Importing Photos 76
Gradient Palette Shortcut 76
Make Sure All the Colors in Your Book Match 77
Blue and Yellow Make Green 78
Stop Playing Hit-or-Miss 78

CHAPTER 4
Drawing Fire
Drawing with InDesign
Edit One Object in a Group 82
Turn Your Font into a Graphic 82
Smooth Out Those Jaggy Paths 83
Add Soft Edges to Objects 83
Backscreening Effects 84
How Many Sides with That Polygon? 84
Adjust Polygon Sides and Points on the Fly 85
Experiment with Size 85
The Subtle Art of Frame Scaling 86
Don't Copy and Paste It—Dupe It 86
Select an Object Behind Another Object 87
Select an Object Behind Another (Version 2) 87
Send Objects Forward or Backward 88
Keep on Sending Objects Forward and Backward 88
Set Your Default Fill and Stroke Colors 89
Auto Add/Delete Path Points 89
Move Just One Side of Your Curve 90
How to Stop One Path and Start Another 90
How to Remove One Direction Point from a Curve 91
Cutting the Cheese (Or Making a Perfect Half Circle) 91
Point It Out 92

CHAPTER 5
Turn the Page
Working with Pages
Drag Pages from One Doc to Another 96
When One Master Page Just Doesn't Cut It 96
Be Flexible with the Size of Your Layout 97
Spread Beyond Two Pages 97
Make It a Template 98
Underestimating the Page Count 98
Add Pages the Fast Way 99
Larger Page Icons 99
Have It Your Way 100
Make Your Guide Stretch Across Spreads 100
Get Rid of Unwanted Guides Fast 101
Delete All Your Guides at Once 101
Add a Guide Exactly Where You Want It 102
Get Both a Horizontal and Vertical Guide 102
Copy Those Guides 103
Shortcut for Locking Guides 103
Toggle Guides On/Off 104
Create Your Own Custom Guides Layout 104
Assign Guides to a Layer 105
Get Organized with Layers 105
Select Everything on One Layer 106
Stack It Up in the Right Order 106
Delete Any Layers You're Not Using 107
See the Real Page Numbers 107
Create New Sections (with Their Own Page Numbers) 108
One Is the Loneliest Number 108
Jump to the Page You Need 109
Make All Master Page Items Editable 109
Make Just One Master Page Item Editable 110
Assign Master Page Attributes to a Page 110
You Will Be Assimilated 111
From Text Frame to Graphics Frame Fast 111
Make a TOC Style 112
TOC: More Options 112
Style vs. Entry Style 113
Give Me Dots 113
Link Docs Together In a Book 114
Create a PDF from Your Book 114
Synchronize a Book 115
Book Pagination 115
Create Index Entries 116
Index Cross-Referencing 116
Hey, There's No PDF Button on the Book Palette 117
Add Documents to a Book from the Desktop 117
I Want Just One Document 118
Take It to the Web 118

CHAPTER 6
Contains Graphic Images
Working with Graphics
Create a Vignette without Leaving InDesign 122
Don't Be a Square 122
Try Out Blending Modes 123
Use the Paste Into Command 123
Government-Mandated Drop Shadows 124
Create Fake Glows 124
Drag-and-Drop from the OS 125
Show Import Options for More Control 125
Place PDF Files Too 126
Text Wrap: Take It Or Leave It 126
Wrap It, Wrap It Good 127
Who's the Master Now? 127
From One Vector Lover to Another 128
I Don't Want to Draw No Stinkin' Boxes 128
I Have to Draw Boxes First. It's My Life 129
Make the Graphic Fit 129
Size Does Matter 130
The Resize-Multiple-Objects Trick 130
Move the Graphic without Moving the Frame 131
Three-in-One 131
Look at Me When I'm Talking to You 132
Don't Use the Force to Align Objects 132
Give Your Objects a Restraining Order 133
Copy and Paste Is So 1980s 133
Step and Repeat Instead of Copy and Paste 134
Don't Move It to the Same Place—Copy It 134
Paste Remembers Layers 135
Where's the Library Palette? 135
Add Objects to the Library 136
Drag from the Library onto the Page 136
Double-click Library Items to Name Them 137
Save Time Searching in Your Library 137
Add Keywords to Items Already in the Library 138
Search the Library 138
Narrow Your Library Search 139
How to Recover from a Library Search 139
Thumbnails in the Library are Cool, But... 140
Don't Print This! 140
Go Stand in the Corner and Think About What You've Done 141
Relink to a New Graphic 141
Replace Graphics 142
Make a Picture 142
Who Took That Placed Digital Photo? InDesign Knows 143
Fade That Image Back 143
Stacking Order is Everything 144
Identify Pages with Transparent Objects 144
Transparency Flattener Styles 145
Use Transparency from Photoshop 146
Use Photoshop Alpha Channels 146
Generate Clipping Paths Automatically 147
Use the Transparency Flattener Preview 148
Override Flattener Settings Spread by Spread 149

CHAPTER 7
Cool Hand Luke
Way-Cool Tips
The Trick to Shrinking Your InDesign File Size 152
Copy Drop Shadows with the Eyedropper 152
Use Multiple Views of the Same Document 153
Want to Speed Up InDesign? Turn Off Plug-ins 153
Image-by-Image High-Quality Display 154
Set Your Own Display Performance 154
Create Bleeds and Slugs without Oversized Pages 155
View Bleeds and Slugs Using Preview 155
Use Path�nder to Join Shapes 156
Enter Measurements in Your Unit of Choice 156
Use the Story Editor to Edit Blocks of Text 157
Open QuarkXPress Documents in InDesign 158
Open PageMaker Documents in InDesign 158
Use the Info Palette to Get Image Details 159
Use the Measure Tool Instead of Rulers 159
Unembed Embedded Graphics to Make Your Printer Happy 160
You're the One (Layer) 160
Drag to Make Visible or Lock Layers 161

CHAPTER 8
Hidden Treasure
Little-Known Features
View Menus in Alphabetical Order 164
Want to Use Inches? Type (�) 164
Reshape Frames with the Pencil Tool 165
Create Gradients the Easy Way 165
Get Rounded Rectangles with Corner Effects 166
Reset Your Zero Point 166
Change Attributes Using Percentages 167
Getting PageMaker Features in InDesign 167
See Your Pages Before You Open Them 168
The Deleting Stunt 168
Drag-and-Drop from iPhoto 169
Drag-and-Drop from Adobe Bridge 169
Create a Speci�c-Sized Frame in One Click 170
Create a Duotone Effect Right within InDesign 170
Add Hyperlinks or Bookmarks to Any Object 171
Let the Good Times Scroll 171
Scale Selected Objects without Grouping 172
Stroke Your Styles, Baby 173
Four-Color Process On a Spot Color Budget 174
Could You Please Change That Spot Color? 175
Back to the Future 175
Something Wrong in Neverland? Delete the Preferences 176
Kick the Keyboard Habit 176
Get to the Units/Increments Preferences Fast 177
Speed Lane to the Move Dialog 177
Speedy Scaler 178