Make Your Own Halloween Party Invitations
Find templates, fonts, art, and ideas for your next Halloween party invitation or decorations. Create creepy Halloween cards, costumes, and coloring pages.
Halloween Templates
Print your own Halloween party decorations, get templates to carve a pumpkin. Download free templates for spooky t-shirt transfers, trick or treat bags, and costumes.
Daily Dose of DTP - Online Version & Final Exam
Once you've successfully completed the Daily Dose of DTP introductory class it's time to see how much you've learned. Use the outline for review and to study the lessons learned. Complete each of the 6 quizzes that make up the final exam. This outline also allows those who prefer to take the class online to do so. Create a Greeting Card Class - Introduction
These are self-paced, step-by-step lessons for learning or teaching desktop publishing using a greeting card project. Created by Jacci Howard Bear for About Desktop Publishing.
Lesson 1: Create a Greeting Card Class
In the first lesson of the Create a Greeting Card Class we need to select software. If you don't already have software or are looking to upgrade, here's a quick rundown of the two primary types of programs used in desktop publishing - Page Layout and Photo Editing/Graphics. Lesson 2: Create a Greeting Card Class
Is it a greeting card you want to create, or something else. The first step in designing anything is deciding what it is you need to make. That's this lesson from the Create a Greeting Card Class at About Desktop Publishing. Lesson 3: Create a Greeting Card Class
This lesson of the About Desktop Publishing Create a Greeting Card Class is all about setting up your document in your desktop publishing software.
Lesson 4: Create a Greeting Card Class
Some sources of graphics include clip art bundled with your software, 3rd party images on your harddrive, CD collections, images that come packaged with other programs you have, images downloaded from the Web, or graphics you scan in with your desktop scanner.
Lesson 5: Create a Greeting Card Class
Make your clip art your own with simple editing methods.
Lesson 6: Create a Greeting Card Class
Choosing the appropriate type for your greeting card, or any project, involves both personal preference and selecting a style that sets the right mood or tone.
Lesson 7: Create a Greeting Card Class
We're finally going to talk about page layout -- putting your carefully selected (and possibly edited) graphics and text on the page together.
Lesson 8: Create a Greeting Card Class
This lesson repeats everything we've learned up to this point. We are simply applying the same steps we followed on the front of the card to the inside spread.
Lesson 9: Create a Greeting Card Class
Add a credit line, proof your work, then print your new greeting card.
Using Clip Art on Resale Products
Can you use the clip art you bought on resale products such as t-shirts, greeting cards, or coffee mugs you plan to sell for profit? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. You'll need to find out what the company allows. Learn to read the licensing agreements for clip art usage including use of the clip art on resale products.
Lookalike Fonts
Which fonts look most like Helvetica? What's a good substitute if you can't find Staccato? Browse this lengthy alphabetical list of fonts that share the same look, sometimes almost identical. These are known as font aliases, clones, or lookalike fonts.
PANTONE® Spot Color Name Suffixes
Here's your guide to understanding C, U, CV suffixes, and other naming conventions in PANTONE Matching System (PMS) colors.
Harry Potter Fonts
Locate free fonts with the look of Harry Potter including lightning bolt letters. Download two of the Harry Potter fonts here - Harry P and Lumos - and find links to many more versions and styles of these magical free fonts. Proofs for Desktop Publishing
This outline attempts to bring a bit of order to the somewhat chaotic world of proofs. It shows the various types of proofs and some of the many names used for different types of proofs used in desktop publishing, prepress, and printing. Use Less Clip Art
There are no hard and fast rules on how many images on a page is too many. But unless you're dealing with a product catalog or a yearbook, chances are that if there are more than three or four images the page is too graphics-heavy. Cut the Clip Art Clutter. Eliminate Image Overload.
Use Centered Text Sparingly
There are only a few cases where centered text is appropriate. Use centered text alignment wisely in page layout as well as Web publishing. Use More White Space
White space provides visual breathing room for the eye. It breaks up text and graphics. Add white space to make a page less cramped, confusing, or overwhelming.
Size Matters: Measuring Type, Paper, and Images
If you've done desktop publishing for any length of time or if you come from a traditional printing or graphic arts field then you already know that DTP involves many different types of measurement systems. The inch and millimeter are only two of several possible units of measure.
Metric System Measurements for Non-Metric Users
It's inevitable that those of us still clinging stubbornly to our inches and yards will eventually have to work with the millimeters, centimeters, and other measures of the metric system. Here's a crash course in the smaller printer measurements that desktop publishers may encounter, especially millimeters. Page Layout Measurements
Stop inching into desktop publishing. Find out how easy it is to use picas and points for your page layout. Learn the advantages of picas over inches and other typesetting measurements. PPI - Display Resolution
Understanding the differences and use of samples, pixels, dots, and lines in image resolution, scanning, display, and printing. Learn more about PPI or pixels per inch.
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