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Supplies You Need (1735)
Dress up your words with fancy fonts. Illustrate your words with pretty pictures. Organize your words with tasteful templates. Desktop publishing utilizes fonts, images, and templates to create attractive page layouts.

Things to Make (931)
What are you going to create? Dig into detailed design tips and tutorials, makeovers, ideas, techniques, and supplies for anything you can do with desktop publishing software.

Graphic Design Tutorials (244)
Desktop publishing involves the technical application of the elements and principles of graphic design. Discover those design elements and principles and the creative process through graphic design tutorials, classes, and articles that explore the theories and processes of graphic design and desktop publishing.

Page Layout Tutorials (1447)
At its most basic level, desktop publishing is taking some text and some graphics and mixing them together on a page then publishing that page.

Graphics Tutorials (321)
Learn how to use a scanner, get the perfect scan, and how to use graphics whether acquired from scanning, digital photography, or other means.

Typography (409)
The design and use of typefaces as a means of visual communication from calligraphy to the ever-developing use of digital type is the broad use of the term typography. Typography is sometimes seen as encompassing many separate fields from the type designer who creates letterforms to the graphic designer who selects typefaces and arranges them on the page.

Prepress & Printing (466)
Ensure your designs will print as expected by following proper prepress procedures as described in these prepress tutorials, definitions, and articles.

Web Design Tutorials (133)
Electronic publishing includes Web as well as other non-print publishing such as email newsletters, CD-ROM publications, eBooks, video, and PDF documents. When the intended final display is for the screen, it's electronic publishing.

Education & Training (536)
Join professional associations, discover the educational requirements for working in the field of desktop publishing and graphic design. Obtain formal or informal education in desktop publishing.

Business of Design (376)
Do you make a living or want to make a living doing desktop publishing? Find professional associations, publications, and career advice for those in the field of desktop publishing including in-house designers, freelancers, and teachers.

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