Jason: Absolutely, and the very first thing is when you start up InDesign, the current version of InDesign that people have, which is the most current Creative Cloud, there’s a couple things that are my personal pet peeves.īut when you start up the document, a new document, you get the the big startup screen that gives you all of the different documents, all the different presets that you have, and I like to go into File > New and get my old original document setup without having to go through all these extra steps. So do you want to start with some of the preferences that you recommend be changed in InDesign when someone’s starting to make a more efficient workflow? New Document So I thought we would start by talking about things that we do to set up our defaults for InDesign and for our default documents. Setting InDesign PreferencesĬolleen: Oh, yeah. Jason: Oh, yes, that and double spacing after any punctuation. I’ve seen a lot of files from designers without the properly threaded text frames, blank master pages, the same style applied to multiple chunks of text using one frame for text and then another one for the background behind the text, and of course, my favorite is the double paragraph marks.
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I’ve seen a lot of designers, as I’m sure you have-even if they’ve used the software for years-they don’t necessarily use the software to their advantage a lot of times and it’s either, I guess, they don’t know how to or they think it’s too time consuming to do the proper setup. Absolutely.Ĭolleen: Well, you and I go way back to the days of QuarkXPress, long before InDesign, so we’ve been using page layout software for many, many years.Ĭolleen: Yeah, and, as you know, when you know the page layout software well, you can create an efficient workflow that really saves a lot of time, especially with large publications. Jason: Yes, That is one of my absolute favorites.
It simply just comes out and I make up things on the fly for nicknames and I’ve found that the nicknames of these things actually get people to remember them. Jason: Well, they actually have a whole list of “Jason-isms” that I’ve come up with and, no, I don’t remember them because I don’t plan any of this stuff. I love your sense of humor in your courses, and I don’t know how much you remember of all the funny things that you say in the courses, but every time I go to set tabs in InDesign, I think of when you referred to it as “sprinkling a little bit of salt and pepper.” So I think I can show you a couple things, my favorites.Ĭolleen: Yeah, I love your courses. Jason: Well, I definitely have used it several times. I always love to be on these and share with people such fantastic stuff.Ĭolleen: Great and who better to talk InDesign with than you? Jason Hoppe: Well, thank you so much for inviting me on, Colleen. Find him online at .Ĭolleen Gratzer: Welcome to the podcast, Jason! I’m so excited to talk to you today. He currently teaches the Adobe ® Creative Suite at The School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works, Adobe MAX and Seattle Central College and was the founding instructor at CreativeLive. Also during this time, Jason has taught prepress and electronic design to hundreds of Seattle-based creative professionals and aspiring designers in a variety of settings, including one-on-one tutoring, classroom instruction, live webcasting and large-group training. In fact, Jason has been performing high-end electronic production since the industry’s inception. An Adobe ® Certified Expert and Adobe ® Certified Instructor, Jason Hoppe has accrued more than 20 years’ experience in high-end production training, photo retouching, color correction and creative workflow management.