Instructor: Alison Cattelona, CEO and instructor, Mobile Mac & PC Training

Duration: 33:50 minutes

Added December 2008

This tutorial from Adobe-certified trainer Alison Cattelona contains numerous tips, tricks, and features that you can employ for smooth integration of Photoshop and InDesign. Alison explores syncing color profiles, changing preferences for easy sizing in an InDesign layout, creating alternate compositions with layer comps, using the links panel to manage images, and sharing color swatches between the two programs, among other helpful time-saving techniques.

About Alison Cattelona

Alison Cattelona has been a computer instructor for the past 13 years teaching in 30 desktop applications. Her experience comes from a background in the graphic arts including paste-up/mechanicals, design and art direction. She took the solid production experience she gained having worked in a print shop to her art director/designer jobs within the advertising and marketing industries. The freelance work that followed rounded out her expertise in the many industries, applications and techniques that she uses today in her instruction. Alison founded and grew Mobile Mac & PC Training to be the highly successful, multi-platform, multi-application training company it is today. Alison holds ACE and ACI credentials with Adobe and is the co-chapter rep of the Central NJ InDesign User Group.