2 Minute Tutorial: Create a Photo Chain or Group with Rules
Saturday April 30, 2005
When you must arrange mug shots in a row — horizontally or vertically — create a chain.
Need Help Learning QuarkXPress?
Friday April 29, 2005
QuarkXPress is one of the industry-standard desktop publishing applications in use by professional designers and businesses. Whether you need to master a specific text-related technique or want to learn everything ... Read More
2 Minute Tutorial: Avoid Exotic Color Schemes for Screen Shots
Friday April 29, 2005
Unless your object is to show off wallpaper and wild color schemes, stick with non-exotic colors such as the standard Windows desktop scheme for screen shots.
Happy Birthday, Trinity
Thursday April 28, 2005
Forum Editor and Guest Writer, Elisabetta Bruno (that's Trinity in the forum) turns 23 on April 28. Send her birthday wishes then take time to read the many articles and ... Read More
How to Start a Desktop Publishing or Graphic Design Business
Thursday April 28, 2005
Going freelance is serious business so we've got several ways for you to get serious and do the work involved in starting your own business. The material is the same ... Read More
2 Minute Tutorial: Mixing Script Fonts
Thursday April 28, 2005
Use caution when mixing two (or more) script typefaces in a single document. When in doubt, don't do it.
2 Minute Tutorial: Provide Comfort for Readers with Repetition
Wednesday April 27, 2005
Readers gain comfort from having certain elements repeat themselves at consistent intervals or in the same position.
Design Once, Print in Many Ways - Less Expensively
Wednesday April 27, 2005
When creating a brochure personalized for various branch offices or doing a magazine in multiple languages, do you start each project from scratch? Probably not. Both for consistency and cost-savings ... Read More
2 Minute Tutorial: Spec Work vs. Pro Bono
Tuesday April 26, 2005
In freelance design and publishing there are right and wrong ways to work for free
The Biology of DTP
Monday April 25, 2005
Perhaps you've heard that Adobe is buying Macromedia... in the forum a tiny bit of silliness ensued when Trinity got a little creative with the company names: Macrobe or Adomedia. ... Read More
2 Minute Tutorial: Gestalt
Monday April 25, 2005
Gestalt is a fancy way of saying "the sum of the whole is greater than its parts." An arm and a leg are nice to have but they generally work ... Read More
2 Minute Tutorial: Get Samples of Your Work
Sunday April 24, 2005
While new designers may have to rely on made-up samples, once you've landed a job be sure to obtain samples of the completed work.
2 Minute Tutorial: Use Heavier Paper to Look More Important
Saturday April 23, 2005
Paper weight and thickness may have little or no noticeable effect on printed image quality. However, heavier, thicker papers feel more substantial and can lend visual weight to a project. ... Read More
Earthy Color Combinations
Friday April 22, 2005
Earth tones are an ever-popular color palette. These earthy palettes include more than just brown. Mother nature's palette includes peach, orange, grass green, golden yellow, and even eggplant purple.
Some ... Read More
2 Minute Tutorial: Conserve Desktop Printing Paper
Friday April 22, 2005
You can save on paper used in your desktop printer by developing 5 easy paper-saving habits.
PageMaker Lost Its Snap
Thursday April 21, 2005
Eggles posts a handy screenshot of where to find the Use "Snap to" constraints checkbox in Adobe PageMaker 7. If your objects aren't snapping to guides or rulers as you ... Read More
Etching vs. Clipping Path - Get the Background Out
Thursday April 21, 2005
Some designers may use the term etching to mean a clipping path. As some forum members ascertained, the terms are sometimes used interchangeably to refer to the processing of ... Read More
PDF Portfolios, Plus
Thursday April 21, 2005
Some of the questions addressed in this forum discussion on creating PDF files include how to reduce the file size of a PDF destined for screen-only viewing that consists of ... Read More
Creating and Printing Black & White Artwork
Sunday April 17, 2005
Most of the photographs we work with in desktop publishing start out in color - color scans, digital camera shots. But sometimes we need to use black and white ... Read More
Do You Use Ligatures Regularly?
Saturday April 16, 2005
In a recent Publish article by Andrew Pfeiffer on Mac vs. Windows there was one passage that jumped out at me. Pfeiffer stated,
"The standard Windows character set does not ... Read More
Windows vs. Mac OS - Sort of
Friday April 15, 2005
Andreas Pfeiffer asks Does the OS Still Matter for Graphics Pros? and the answer seems to be that the operating system might be less of a problem if the software ... Read More
QuarkXPress Questions
Thursday April 14, 2005
In the forum we have several members needing help with QuarkXPress. If any of these situations ring a bell with you, drop in and add your own tips and advice.
Importing ... Read More
The Colors of Spring
Monday April 11, 2005
During a quick shopping trip with my daughters I was taking special note of the color changes taking place on the clothes racks. I think my current wardrobe needs an ... Read More
Business Card Design
Saturday April 9, 2005
One of the first things that a new business person does when setting up shop is designing and printing up some business cards. Often that first batch of cards is ... Read More
Desktop Publishing & Graphic Design Jobs
Thursday April 7, 2005
Are you fresh out of school with a design degree? Or, are you wanting to change careers so that you can do something more creative? Finding a job can be ... Read More
Using the Adobe InDesign Tools
Wednesday April 6, 2005
In lesson 4 of our Adobe InDesign Basics Class we started to go through the tools of the Tools palette. In our latest lesson we cover more of tho InDesign ... Read More
QuarkXPress Promotional Pricing
Wednesday April 6, 2005
On the same day that Adobe announced the upcoming release of Adobe Creative Suite 2, Quark announced a limited time price cut on QuarkXPress 6.5. The full product is $699. ... Read More
Guidelines for Designing Documents Intended for Translation
Tuesday April 5, 2005
Translating a desktop publishing project from English into another language involves more than just dropping the translated text into your layout. Learn how to design a piece from the ground ... Read More
Layers Magazine
Tuesday April 5, 2005
As WildeWillow posts in the forum, there's a new/old magazine out there now for designers. Mac Design Magazine has a new name. Now called Layers, the magazine is already getting ... Read More
Adobe Creative Suite 2 Coming Soon
Monday April 4, 2005
Are you ready for CS2? A brand new version of the Adobe Creative Suite begins shipping in May. Creative Suite 2 integrates new versions of Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe ... Read More
When to Use Spot Colors or Process Colors
Monday April 4, 2005
Perhaps you've learned the difference between spot colors and process colors. You know that spot colors such as Pantone or PMS colors are specially mixed ink colors. You know that ... Read More
Designer Horoscopes for April
Friday April 1, 2005
OK, who's been sneaking into my office and taking notes? In the Speak Up: April Horoscope for Designers my sign (Scorpio) starts out with "Clean your studio and clear your ... Read More