Desktop Publishing & Prepress

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.

Cannot Delete InDesign Swatch?

How to get rid of ghost colours in InDesign

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 want to learn how to use this program. The Adobe InDesign Basics course will give you the basics on which you can then develop further skills and become proficient at using this powerful layout program.

The InDesign course combines basic desktop publishing skills and graphics design principles with the specifics of how to use Adobe InDesign CS to create visual communications.

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.

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 ...