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Print Design

Adobe Acrobat

How to create a form with Adobe Acrobat

July 19, 2010 Read the full article →

Creating a form with Adobe Acrobat (not the free Adobe Reader) is probably easier than you think. You will need: Adobe Acrobat (full version) A PDF of your form Create the basic form Create your form in whatever program you wish and save it as a PDF. Here I have created a simple form with [...]

Illustration

United Way Children’s Book Illustration

July 15, 2010 Read the full article →

For the last few years I’ve had the privilege of getting to do the design and layout for a series of Children’s books for the United Way. I got the opportunity to be more involved with the latest book with a chance to illustrate as well as lay out the book. From a designers point [...]

InDesign

Preview Separations in InDesign

July 5, 2010 Read the full article →

Question How do I preview separations in InDesign? Answer InDesign has a great way to review your files and make sure your spot colors are spot colors and your process colors are process colors. Launch InDesign Go to Window –> Output –> Separations Preview Select “Separations” from the dropdown menu. From here you can turn [...]

General

Design Contests: The Ugly Truth

March 8, 2010 Read the full article →

Will Work for Cash Let’s say you have a successful company and want to do a little updating. You’ve decided that old logo is looking dated, and head to a design agency you know and trust for something new. They quote you $1,000 for a design, tell you that they’ll be researching your business and [...]

Adobe Illustrator

Faster Loading PDFs with InDesign

January 29, 2010 Read the full article →

Question Is there a special way to save PDFs from Indesign so they load faster on the internet. My client has their pdf brochures online and it takes forever to load. Answer Yes there is! When you export your PDF from InDesign, make sure you choose the Adobe PDF Preset “Smallest File Size” and check the box [...]

InDesign

Convert InDesign PDF to Grayscale

January 19, 2010 Read the full article →

Question Do you know how to save an Indesign file as a Grayscale PDF? So far all I can figure out is to build the file in grayscale from the start. Including converting all the graphics to Gray before importing into Indesign. In Quark you can just click on save as grayscale in the PDF [...]

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator — How to Add Type to a Path

January 4, 2010 Read the full article →

Question I am trying to do something in Illustrator and I can’t figure out how to make it happen. I want to make letters go in a semi-circle, and the help menu says to select Type -> Type on a Path -> and the option I want. My problem is that “Type on a Path” [...]

Humor

Font Humor

November 25, 2009 Read the full article →

If you enjoy or work with different fonts, you will probably find these very funny. Font Fight Font Conference

Humor

Punctuation Substitution

November 2, 2009 Read the full article →

Whereas this highly instructional (and humorous) video is aimed at designers, the lessons here can easily be applied to any industry. Enjoy. Click here to watch “Punctuation Substitution” or click the image below:

Humor

Your Business Card is Crap!

October 14, 2009 Read the full article →

I hesitated posting this video because I didn’t want people thinking I was trying to sell them an expensive business card design. But, this guy really made me laugh. The only thing funnier were some of the video comments. I posted a couple of them below the video. Don’t forget to add your own two [...]

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