Monograms — those symbols made up of two or more overlapping letters — have been around for thousands of years. Nowadays they’re most commonly created for weddings, but you may also use them to evoke certain eras or a regal feeling. Drawing a monogram by hand requires real skill, and even producing a good one […]
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Just in time for Halloween: here’s how to make (or find) a ghost lurking in your InDesign document.
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Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com. Whether you’re aiming for realism or an exaggerated effect that grabs attention, it’s often handy to be able to change the color of one object in a photo without affecting the rest of the image. Most people will tell you to use Adobe Photoshop’s Hue/Saturation command to do this, […]
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InDesign tells you that you have some overset text, but sometimes it’s hard to find if you don’t know where to look
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These days, most graphic designers don’t even know what a screen angle is, let alone how dot shapes can affect the reproduction of halftone photographs and artwork. We scan, we import to Photoshop, and then we rely on InDesign or QuarkXPress to figure out the details necessary to accurately reproduce the image. That wasn’t always […]
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Recosoft announced that they will release the third iteration of the Enterprise version of PDF2ID. As the software’s name suggests, it converts PDF files into InDesign documents. PDF2ID Enterprise v3, which will be available for Windows and the Mac next month, is designed to automatically convert large numbers of PDFs at once. The conversion can […]
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We regularly update this compilation of the Tip-of-the-Week mailings from InDesign Magazine. To receive the tips in your email in-box, sign up here. Frame Resizing On the Double Click You’ve placed an image into a selected Frame and decide afterwards that you’d like the Frame to Fit the whole image. Is there a quick way […]
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When we’re being honest with ourselves, most of us will admit we don’t have the patience necessary to design a typeface. But we still like to pretend we do — and that’s why an online game called Shape Type from Method of Action is so much fun. The object of the game is to drag […]
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