Other products coming very soon, keep visiting our blog for updates.  Now that wedding season is slowing down for us because of Vegas’ insane heat, I’ll be more regular about updating the blog twice a week.

Happy Designing! Trish

Apple N = New Document

Apple O = Open Existing Document

Apple D = Place command

Apple S = Save Document

Shift Apple S = Save As

Apple E = Export Document

, = Apply Foreground Color to rectangle or frame

Esc V = Selection Tool

A = Direct Selection Tool

\ = Line Tool

F = Rectangular Frame Tool

M = Rectangle Tool

R = Rotate Tool

G = Gradient Tool

H = Hand Tool

W = Will let you toggle between normal view and preview mode

These are basically all of the standard commands in album building with our system, so change it up, try it out and see how it can really add efficiency to your workflow.

But first, a little bit about them and how we design our guest books for maximum profitability…..In designing guest books for our clients, we’ve always wanted three things to really shine through: our couples, our images and the simplicity of the design showcasing both of those things.   In saying that, our InDesign guest book templates download is everything you’ll need to create beautiful guest books for your couples that will make them very happy….oh, and what’s more, now you can do them in a fraction of the time.

The InDesign Guestbook Template download includes 50 templates sized just for horizontal books, so they’ll fit 12 x 10 books, 10 x 8 books or 8 x 6 books.  They’re also great for boudoir books or even baby books.  Just very clean designs that alot for other elements should you choose to add them. Why only 50 designs?  Below you’ll be able to view some of our guest book designs.  I believe that once you’ve taken a look at our designs, you’ll understand why there are only 50 templates.  You absolutely won’t need more than that….and your clients will absolutely love the final product.

5.) Because it’s so much easier and faster than most other album design software programs once you’ve gotten the hang of it.  Sure, you may have to learn something new, but because the workspace is so similar to photoshop, you’ll be mastering it in no time….

4.) If you want your life back from editing and designing, you can build an album in under 40 minutes.  It’s proven, I’ve done it many of times and continue to do it again and again.

3.) You can still edit in photoshop and embellish your images while designing in InDesign without a ton of opening and closing.  This will save you time that you could be easily using to sit on the couch with your dog, kids or wife/husband playing the Wii.

2.) It isn’t nearly as frustrating as designing in photoshop because it’s designed to handle large file size.  You won’t believe how easy it is to preview files because of indesigns intuitive nature for handing large file size.

1.) Free time, Free Time, Free Time…get it back, you’ve likely earned it!

Happy Monday, Cheers, Trish

Answer: NO!

Here’s why: part of album design is creating something from digital negatives, meaning in rough format images right from processing.  In saying this, when you export your files from InDesign to jpegs or eps or pdf, keep them in a rough format until the album is approved.  This way you’re not investing additional time into retouching images that may not go into the final album.

You can however edit your images right in InDesign should you choose to do this.  I don’t recommend it, but if you feel your images need a little sprucing before sending to your clients, you do have the option to retouch or edit images while working in InDesign.

To do this, with your document file already opened and working on your desktop,  go to Window–Links, then the links palette should appear.  Once the links palette appears, select the image you’d like to edit by using the direct selection tool, that’s the little clear arrow in the toolbar.  The image will then be highlighted in the links palette, and below the image, you’ll see something at the bottom that looks like a little pencil and paper. Click the pencil and paper, and voila, photoshop will open and your linked image will open in the window allowing you to edit the image.  Once you’re done editing, you’ll need to close the image in photoshop and return to indesign.  Once back in indesign, you’ll notice a yellow triangle arrow indicating that your link has changed or been updated, so simply click the little link image at the bottom of the links palette to relink the image once again and it will automatically update in your file.  Very easy and very quick once you get the hang of it.

Which ever route you take, the great thing about InDesign is that once your album is approved, you can open up your exported final jpegs, eps or pdf files in photoshop and retouch them without any lapse in quality.  This will save you a lot of time in the long run and it’s how we do it at Studio ATG.

Step 1: Create a new file with layout frames ready for image placement.  For example, for our InDesign templates, once you’ve created your new document, simply drag and drop the template to the artboard and go!

2.) Step two, insert one of our graphic backgrounds to fill the back image portion of the template.

Step 3: Select one of the frames from the template with the selection tool, thats the tool at the top of the side tool bar, the top completely dark arrow. Once the frame is selected, go to the very top tool bar and select File–then scroll down to select Place–Then your folders should appear.  Select the folder you’d like to use that includes your images.  My folder includes four images; so what I’ll do is hold down the Apple key or the shift key and it will select multiple images and load the cursor.

Once the cursor is loaded, you’ll see a small number appear to the right of the cursor; mine will show the number (4).  You can then scroll through your images by using the right or left arrow keys in order to select the image you’d like loaded into each individual frame.  And, what’s more if you’d like to delete an image, you can simply use the ESC key to delete an image from the loaded cursor.