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Introduction to InDesign

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Page layout is not as glamorous or interesting to a lot of designers and digital artists as creating t-shirts, posters and album covers. However, page layout is an important function for a lot of design projects, and there is an opportunity to do quite a bit with a layout. While QuarkXPress was [...]

FoldRite Template Master plugin for Adobe InDesign

Thursday, November 4, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The FoldRite Template Master plugin for Adobe InDesign by Fold Factory is an interesting niche tool for working with folded paper. Paper is dimensional, and if it is to fold into itself to form a brochure, the panels that fold in must be slightly smaller to accommodate for the thickness [...]

Adobe: Create Digital Magazines for the iPad

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Adobe: Create Digital Magazines for the iPad

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: There’s been quite a brouhaha between Adobe and Apple as far as the lack of Flash on Apple’s iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch). I’ve mentioned on GoMediaZine in the past that I believe Adobe’s best plan of action would be to offer development tools for HTML5 and [...]

Layer Lifter for InDesign

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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Layer Lifter is a simple, free Adobe InDesign plug-in from Rorohiko that offers an alternative method to using the layers palette for moving objects between layers. Using it couldn’t simpler: first select one or more objects on a spread, and then right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac), and pick a destination layer from the LayerLifter context [...]

Adobe Digital Publishing Platform

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Today Adobe announced their Digital Publishing Platform, which in their own words is “a platform which consists of applications, technologies, and services that allow publishers to cost effectively author, produce, and distribute groundbreaking content to the broadest possible audience on a wide variety of digital devices”. While it’s hard to [...]

Blank Canvas: Adobe Or Not?

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: It goes without saying that Adobe is pretty much the industry leader in professional-level graphics software. But that isn’t to say that there aren’t plenty of other options out there. Go Media Zine wants to know: Adobe or not? If you do use Adobe products, what version(s) are you [...]

Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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Free download, Adobe Air application that allows you to look up keyboard shortcuts for any Adobe software. Well, at least Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore and Acrobat Pro. The shortcuts are only for the CS4 versions of these applications.

Preparing InDesign Files for your Print Service

Monday, September 7, 2009

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Preparing InDesign Files for your Print Service

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Often times when it comes to preparing files for a printer it can get really complicated really fast. Often times when I’m creating a design there are a lot of elements that I use in a file, most of which are images and fonts. It’s so complicated to remember [...]

InDesign Quick Tip: Indent To Here

Friday, August 14, 2009

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Use the Adobe InDesign "Indent To Here" feature to indent bulleted lists and indent lines in a paragraph independently of a paragraph’s left indent value.