InDesign

There is nothing better than sitting back under the flattering lights of the dekeLounge with a charming guest who can keep up with me and Deke. This week the intrepid and hilarious Terri Stone, Editor-in-Chief of CreativePro.com and InDesign Magazine stops by the lounge to entertain and inspire us. Inspire us, within the confines of making content that actually means something to the creative professionals who inhabit dekeVille. As you know from listening to me through some 80 episodes, this is a delicate balance of words and pictures, not to mention the brilliance and peculiarities (ahem) of writers like Deke.

Here's the conveniently bulleted recap of this week's show with Terri: Read more » 

Believe it or not, CS5 contains more than just an upgrade to Photoshop. Yes, folks, my beloved InDesign also has a new and improved version. You might have been questioning whether we were even aware of that, given that Deke is admittedly heads-down the new Illustrator book at the moment and I was in the middle of installing InDesign CS5 as we recorded this very episode. In fact, I was 40% installed on ID CS5 when three of my favorite InDesigners turned up in the 'lounge for an InDesign Phone-In Roundabout Free-For-All. (It's like getting ready for a party. Stock the bar, make the hors d'ourves, install the software.)

Good thing our guests, David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion of InDesign Secrets and David Futato, Deke's very own Design Mastermind, had been poking and prodding the thing for months and had fun stuff to share. Read more » 

So there I was last night, working on my upcoming book Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One, when I happened to type "CS5" into InDesign CS4. Not surprisingly, this older model version of the software did not recognize "CS5" and tagged the word as misspelled with its Dynamic Spelling feature. After all, such mind-blowing concepts as CS5 could not have been imagined back in the olden days when InDesign CS4 first hit the market.

What is surprising is InDesign CS4's suggested alternatives.

I'm telling you, this is one steamy upgrade. Read more » 

Hello, friends. Deke here this week. (Colleen is buried hundreds of pages deep inside a book we hope to one day call Photoshop Elements 8 One-on-One, which is slated for delivery next month. Poor dear; book writing is such torment.) And so it is my esteemed privilege to present you with Martini Hour 036, the last dekeLounge-recorded Martini Hour before we embark on a long series of shows captured live and loose from Las Vegas. Baby.

This week's C&D-only show features a question from a caller who fails to identify herself. I dub her Daffodil because she sounds so sweet and pretty and harmless. But Daffodil's question is about the most horrifying one we've encountered, perfect for Halloween: Why is it that Pantone spot colors look one way in Illustrator and InDesign, and another in Photoshop? And how in the world do you correct this problem?

By way of example, we take on Pantone 172: Is it Pumpkin or Grenadine? (See the swatches in the graphic, top left. I mean, holy shit, how different are those?)

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You know that I love our guests on Martini Hour. But few things can beat an episode where one of my favorite people (Adobe Product Manager Michael Ninness) talks about one of my favorite products (InDesign). Join us in the dekeLounge as we not only discuss InDesign, but really, how InDesign is helping publishers, designers, and editors challenge the notion of The Document, and ultimately plan against our future obsolescence. And we do all this over "portonics," an unfamiliar but tasty concoction of white port and tonic that was apparently the drink of choice during the unseasonably hot weather in Seattle this summer, inspired by our Michael making the trip down to the lounge to visit us in person.

This is not your standard graphics discussion, but an actual excavation of where the future lies. Check it out... Read more »