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InDesign CS5 Animated Roll Down Menu (No. 93)

Mike McHugh — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:36:04 +0000

Not for the faint of heart. This advanced interactive lesson in InDesign CS5 covers many of the interactive features of CS5. The Buttons panel, Animation, Timing, and Mult-istate Objects. We get them all working together to make a roll down menu that triggers a multi-state object. This could be very useful for many different projects with a little imagination and creativity. Don’t Forget you can follow mike on Twitter @CS_TV. Download example files from Roll down Menu_Start.indd.

Setting Tabs InDesign (No. 90)

Mike McHugh — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:46:30 +0000

Its so annoying when you see an InDesign document that has been put together with tabs and spaces all over the place. Common everyone lets get the tabs right and then put them into paragraph styles as well. Its not that hard when you see how to use the tab ruler. We do Right indent tabs, leaders and indent to here as well. What an awesome episode. Creative Sweet TV really is the home of well thought out tabs, and documents that allow for easy editing don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv. Have a great Christmas break and thanks everyone for watching creative Sweet TV see you in 2011.

InDesign Interactive Galleries (No. 89)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:50:19 +0000

InDesign CS5 has a whole bunch of new interactive features. We take a close look at how to use the multi-state objects to create a simple image gallery. We use Adobe Bridge to drage and drop or place images, we also use the new corner effects. But more importantly than that we use the ugliest arrow heads ever and copy and paste them from Illustrator cs5 to create buttons that trigger out gallery!

Wilsons Prom Gallery

Top Ten InDesign CS5 Typography Shortcuts. (No. 86)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:33:23 +0000

PLEASE DONT BE OFFENDED. This week Mike is in a particularly aggressive mood. But its because wants everyone to be awesome using InDesign Shortcuts. This week Creative sweet TV showcases with love the top ten essential shortcuts required to set type in InDesign. The shortcuts include, Soft returns, point size, leading, baseline shift, Indent to here, right indent tabs and the list goes on…
Sit back relax and learn with this mildly offensive episode of Creative Sweet TV.

Digital Publishing ePub best practices

Mike McHugh — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:14:09 +0000

This is the recording of Todays E-Seminar. We cover all sorts of best practices for creating epub files from InDesign.
http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p29627344/
I Mentioned in the e-seminar about using Adobe Buzzword to create .epub files here is where you find it.
http://www.acrobat.com/
I also Mentioned the pdfXML Inspector it can be found here.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/

InDesign Fixing Widows and Orphans (No. 84)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:27:59 +0000

Dont you just hate it when you get a word or line of text left all by itself? Learn how to fix Widows and Orphans within InDesign Paragraph composer. Don’t switch it off man, it works really well if you know what to do. Use non breaking spaces and keep options to get it all sorted. Don’t forget you can follow Mike on Twitter @CS_TV

InDesign Table of Contents (No. 83)

Mike McHugh — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:38:22 +0000

Learn how to use the InDesign CS5 Table of Contents feature. Its based on using Paragraph Styles to format your document. Once created the table of contents will be interactive when you create a PDF Ebook or even a .swf output. Learn how to style them and all about the options available when creating it. Don’t Forget you can now follow @CS_TV on twitter.

InDesign CS5 Live Captions (No. 80)

Mike McHugh — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:17:58 +0000

Learn how to create live captions in InDesign CS5 that use the data entered into the meta data of an image. Adobe Bridge can allow you to eneter a description into the IPTC core data and then InDesign CS5 can access that and auto format it using Paragraphs styles. Simple? Fun ? You betcha. Follow Mike on twitter @CS_TV

Direct PDF export with InDesign CS5 (No. 77)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:05:01 +0000

Can I use the Direct Export From InDesign to make press ready PDF files? Of course you can, its awesome. See what all the different settings mean to your PDF files. Not only that, in this episode of Creative Sweet TV we have a look the new Background Processes Panel in InDesign CS5. So if you want to have a good overview of exporting PDF files you’ve come to the right place.

InDesign CS5 Move that gap (No. 76)

Mike McHugh — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:05:48 +0000

InDesign CS5 has got a bunch of awesome new features and tools. This episode will highlight some of the key new options for designers doing page layout. Set up a grid of images easily and quickly using, Mini Bridge, fitting options, auto fit and the fabulous new Gap tool.

Preparing for Print with InDesign (No. 74)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:52:23 +0000

Creating artwork for print has come along way with InDesign. You need to check for many things before printing, like missing fonts, resolution even specific spot colors. We take a good close look at the Live Preflight in InDesign CS4, it will do all of the heavy lifting for you if set up correctly.

Creating EBOOKS and EPUBS from InDesign

Mike McHugh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:18:48 +0000

Hello everyone that attended my ebook presentation at the InDesign Users Group in Melbourne.
As promised here are a bunch of resources that you may like. Firstly here is my Mikes Ebook slides.
If you want to try authoring in Adobe Buzzword, you should create an account on acrobat.com and Buzzword can export to both PDF and epub, however its quite basic. If you want to be able to publish for the Kindle store you may need to follow this pdf guide InDesign to Kindle and epub If you want to bust open a epub file and edit the goodies inside like the CSS then you could use this Adobe Air Application PDFXML inspector It will most certainly do the trick. If you are keen on reading your epubs and pdf files on the iPhone then you should try Stanza and you can send your files from one device to another very easily. You could also try i2reader I have not, but you may love it! it works much the same way as Stanza.

If you would like some more info on the Adobe Content Server for DRM or even Digital Editions you should check out these pages. there is also a link to the content server on there, but you will have to have more than a man look. As well as all this there is also an excellent video on the topic from last Octobers Max conference in LA. It goes on for while but if you really need to make these things then this will help you do it.

Oh and if you have any questions you should ask the two masked banditos from the www.thequestionroom.com and follow them on twitter @thequestionroom Then of course there was that video of the digital version of wired magazine. Thats truely awesome. Its on Adobe TV.

Justified Typography InDesign CS4 (No. 72)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:29:57 +0000

Just aligning your text using the Justify button is just not good enough. However you can just watch this video tutorial all about the secrets of getting justified text looking just right. None of that horrible hyphenation either. Just letter space, word space and a little bit of typographic cheating is in order.

Web Galleries with Creative Suite (No. 69)

Mike McHugh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:13:25 +0000

Learn how to create web galleries with Adobe Creative Suite 4. Use Adobe Bridge’s Output Module to create a Web Gallery very easily. Also Use InDesign and photoshop.com to create and Interactive Flash Gallery Too. There is loads to learn in this episode that shows 3 ways to create web Galleries with no coding.

Top 5 Shortcuts InDesign CS4 (No. 60)

Mike McHugh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:46:57 +0000

Become an instant POWER user of InDesign CS4. Learn the top 5 most useful keyboard shortcuts of InDesign CS4. Real world examples that are going to save you hours of work. Navigate apply paragraph styles place and edit images all with the simple use of some great keyboard shortcuts.

Interactive InDesign PDF & SWF (No. 57)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:54:47 +0000

InDesign has been able to create fantastic interactive PDF for ages with rollover buttons and actions. Now we can take it a step further with transitions and an improved UI. With InDesign CS4 we can now export directly to interactive SWF and include an interactive page curl with no coding whatsoever. We also discover that you can now export an InDEsign document to an XFL format which means we can open our InDEsign documents in Flash CS4.

CS4 is out the door (No. 51)

Mike McHugh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:42:52 +0000

The very first introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 4. Live from sunny Christchurch in N.Z. Mike is very excited about all 14 new point products and the 6 all new suites. A quick look at his favorite features. Get ready for fun with CS4 its gonna be a really fun time now we have heaps on new toys.

CS4 is here

Mike McHugh — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:25:41 +0000

Adobe Creative Suite 4 is upon us, and I couldn’t be more excited, even if I was twins. We have a series of events coming up that everyone will be able to attend in Person or online if you wish to find out more. I will be posting my launch to CS4 video as soon as I record it, but have been busy with launch CS4 parties in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.It Rocks there are literally hundreds if not thousands of mind blowing new features and enhancements to all the software. If I had to pick the most magical of them all it would be the content aware scaling in Photoshop CS4. I’m also a HUGE fan of the 3d capabilities in Photoshop CS4 extended that allows you to create “lenticular” images and 3D images that you can view with those wierd red and blue glasses like at the movies. If you like to view heaps more why not tune in to Adobe TV there is heaps video on CS4 over there http://tv.adobe.com/ The InDesign Users groups in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland are ALL having CS4 launch parties. If your not a member you had better sign up quick because its gonna be fantastic stuff. http://www.indesignusergroup.com/ Below are the InDesign user group meeting dates and the wonderful chapter representatives.

Perth 30th September – Cari Jansen
Sydney 1st October – Eliot Harper
Auckland 7th October – Martinho de Gloria
Brisbane 16th October – Nerida Moll
Melbourne 29th October – Tricia Ho

Acrobat 9 and InDesign (No. 45)

Mike McHugh — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:22:56 +0000

First look at Acrobat 9.0. This episode we take a file from InDesign CS3 and create an interactive PDF file. But wait Acrobat 9.0 is on the loose, and it plays very nicely with Flash, swf and flv video. Yep its all interactive creative sweet hi-jinx this week thats for sure. Why not sign up for the Acrobat 9 reader pre release and have a look here.

InDesign Optical Typography (No. 36)

Mike McHugh — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:06:16 +0000

LIVE from the lovely beaches of Glenelg South Australia, Mike has a few Typographic tips with InDesign CS3 ( kerning etc.). A special shout out to InDesign User Groups, and a very special announcement about himself.