Posts by Pariah S. Burke

When laying out portraits or headshots close together, such as in a newspaper or magazine article or publications like membership directories and yearbooks, the golden rule is that all photo subjects’ heads should be the same size. In most cases regardless of background and pose, Fred’s head should be the same size as Themla’s, Daphne’s, [...]

A trio of (occasionally useful) tips for working with measurement fields to resize and transform type, frames, and other objects.

In Creative Suite 2 Adobe introduced the Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ASE) file format. With it, you can create custom swatch colors in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, and import them into the rest without having to manually recreate them. Among several ramifications, that means for print output pros fewer instances of the common problem of the [...]

While collaborating on the book Adobe InDesign CS/CS2 Breakthroughs, Anne-Marie wrote the following in an edition of her “DesignGeek” enewsletter: “To see ‘Blatner, David’ appear on my caller ID…was like seeing ‘Einstein, Albert’ was calling me…well if you’re a Quark or Adobe geek, that’s how it felt!”
Man, can I relate to that feeling! Here I [...]