Archive for the ‘Desktop Publishing’ Category

Pushing the Envelope

A very comprehensive guide about different types of envelopes from About Desktop Publishing Guide, Jacci Howard Bear, plus additional info from your very own ThinkCreation editor.

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A Site Full of InDesign Resources

There is a very interesting site all about InDesign: the InDesign User Group. It’s full of resources, tutorials and tips. Have got a question about InDesign? You are very likely to find it here. To access all the resources of the site, it is necessary to become part of one of the InDesign User groups [...]

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The Truth About JPEG

I was crawling around forums and I noticed a few questions related to graphic formats and their capabilities. Therefore I decided to collect a number of links related to the various graphic formats which will give a basic understanding of how they work and will also take up several misconceptions. I will start with one [...]

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Raster and Vector Made Simple

Vector and raster are the two main graphics types in desktop publishing. If you don’t understand how they work, you also will not understand the difference between Illustrator and Photoshop, or the difference between a vector graphics application and a raster graphics application at large.

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Cannot Delete InDesign Swatch?

How to get rid of ghost colours in InDesign

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Adobe InDesign Basics

A Free Class for Those Who Want to Learn InDesign
Here is the InDesign Class I have put together. You can find it on About Desktop Publishing and soon you will see tutorials from that class in Designorati.
This is a free Adobe InDesign course for those who do not have much experience with InDesign and [...]

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Resizing Images In A Layout Program

You have probably heard a few times that you are not supposed to resize an image within the layout application, and that it is better to do it in a graphics editing program such as Photoshop. This article will explain why.

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JPEGs and Resolution

An interesting discussion developed in the About Graphics Software forum, when one forum member asked (paraphrased): “If I have compressed a TIFF image to a JPEG of 72 dpi, can I take that file into a graphics program and convert it to 300 dpi so it can be printed, or will the image be partially [...]

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