InDesign Keyboard shortcuts for photo album design – Free download
These are mac, but I’m sure if you’re on a PC you’re smart enough to change them:
2 = Fill Frame Proportionally – with the frame selected safely expand or shrink your photo to fill+fit
3 = Fit Content Proportionally – fits complete content inside frame
4 = Edit contents in photoshop – select your frame and pop it into photoshop to retouch, do a custom B+W conversion or vignette to better fit your design
option+T = scale transform – place 5 pictures then transform them to 40% to fit on the page, great for balance and spacing, used often enough it needs a shortcut
Default shortcuts you should know:
1 = 100% view – I always like to snap back to it, it’s actually a default
+SHIFT+E = Center content – this is default, but it’s handy to know cause you don’t need to mouse everything…
And pretty much anything in the object menu you can pull out to make you life easier – like object editing, scale up 5% and down 5%….sometime I’ll get Nostromo setup for InDesign and then I’ll be able to reach more keys. Till then it’s free and actually a big time saver.
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