A business card is a simple but important asset to anyone – and they are also really easy to create using Adobe InDesign. Got yourself a phone number, website or email address? OK, let’s begin!


submitted: 280 days ago

This tutorial will show you how to make fully editable tables with rounded corners in InDesign, quickly and easily. It’s actually a bit trickier than you would expect it to be, but if you follow this Quick Tip you will be making great looking tables in no-time!

Tutorial Details

* Program: Adobe InDesign CS5
* Difficulty: Intermediate
* Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour



submitted: 283 days ago

As you will have heard countless times, white space is a very important element to a successful layout. A large proportion of a white space will typically be occupied by margins.

The purpose of this tut is to give new InDesign users the knowledge on setting up margins and their functions relating to two main layout types, which are single and facing page layouts.

Tutorial Details

* Program: InDesign CS5
* Difficulty: Beginner
* Estimated Completion Time: 15 mins

submitted: 291 days ago

When using dashes you have three options available, a hyphen, an en dash and an em dash. Choosing the right dash for the job in hand is usually overlooked and misunderstood.

This tutorial will outline the differences between the three dashes as well as advice on when and how to use them correctly within your designs.

Tutorial Details

* Program: InDesign CS5
* Difficulty: Beginner
* Estimated Completion Time: Up to 30 minutes

submitted: 298 days ago

Sometimes you find yourself in a situation when your client needs to quickly print some business cards and you are the one, who gets the responsibility to do it.

In this tutorial you will learn how quickly an effectively impose business card without using any paid imposition plug-in, using some basic InDesign functions and just in a few clicks.

submitted: 298 days ago

Since CS4, InDesign has held the capability to import multiple graphics quickly and all at once.

The feature allows the user to place a number of graphics on a document arranged within a grid. This can be particularly useful if you are designing a contact sheet, story board or similar structure.

Learn more about importing multiple graphics into Indesign in the followingtutorial.

submitted: 328 days ago

Today’s financial situation has led to more clients asking for better value for money when setting budgets for design and print. A common request for a designer is to cut the number of inks from four down to two.

Although this does cut print costs, it also cuts the designer’s color palette down dramatically. This tut will give you the knowledge to create more colors from a two color brief.

submitted: 1 year and 1 days ago

InDesign CS5 has arrived with lot of new tools, panels and features.

Let’s have a closer look at these changes and discover how they can improve our workflow, productivity and, best of all, our creative process. Time to also think outside of the box, since InDesign is starting to explore new grounds of interactivity and digital publications with growing enthusiasm.

So, what’s new?

submitted: 1 year and 6 days ago

This tutorial will give readers with no or limited InDesign experience the basic knowledge on how to set-up a document for print.

submitted: 1 year and 11 days ago

For this tutorial we will list a selection of our favorite InDesign shortcuts when working with color.
Once memorized these shortcuts will help you become more efficient and give you more time to be creative. First, we would like to share some general color advice that we regard as essential.

submitted: 1 year and 11 days ago