Happy Holidays
By Cari Jansen | December 20, 2008
Wishing all of you a great festive season! I’m going to have some serious R&R time the next 2 weeks 
(although taking my laptop whereever I go - grin… is a little freakish I know!)
My goal for 2009 is to finally get back into posting more regularly, learn Flash and XSLT and not only update my Adobe Certification, but also get a Microsoft one
Talk to you all next year!
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Image Magic in InDesign (4)
By Cari Jansen | December 17, 2008
Digitip 079 - Adobe InDesign, Photo Album and sticky tape
Another image magic trick we showed at the recent Perth InDesign User Group meeting is how to create a sticky tape / photo collage effect using Object Styles.
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Image Magic in InDesign (3)
By Cari Jansen | December 16, 2008
Digitip 078 - Adobe InDesign, colourising and fake duotones
Greyscale and line art (Black & White) images placed in InDesign can be colourised. So how can we create cool colourisation that pretends to generate duotone effects?
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Image Magic in InDesign (2)
By Cari Jansen | December 16, 2008
Digitip 077 - Adobe InDesign, Gridded Images
The following tip looks at a few ways of working with image grids in InDesign.
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Image Magic in InDesign (1)
By Cari Jansen | December 16, 2008
Digitip 076 - Adobe InDesign, the Feathered Collage
During the Image Magic session at the last Perth InDesign User Group meeting we looked at how we could create a feathered collage in a circular/elliptical shape using only InDesign.
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InDesign User Group Meeting - Perth 4 December
By Cari Jansen | November 18, 2008
It’s been a little quiet on my blog. And no… I haven’t been on holidays Just been pretty busy
The Perth InDesign User Group is having its second meeting on Thursday 4 December 2008.
The theme for this meeting will be:
Being creative with Images in InDesign CS4.
We’ll be looking at some image-magic in INDesign as well as integration wtih Adobe Bridge, Photoshop and Illustrator.
After the image-magic session, there will be a short session in which we cover the following two questions:
- How to creat a table of contents automatically in InDesign CS4.
- What’s an InDesign Library? and how can I use it?
Meeting attendance is free, as is InDesign User Group Membership.
Seating is limited so be sure to register soon!
Web-reference: InDesign User Group Perth
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Be the first in Perth to see NEW Adobe Creative Suite 4
By Cari Jansen | September 24, 2008
Are you an InDesign user? Do you love Adobe Creative Suite? and are you interested in becoming a member of an active InDesign user-community?
Then sign-up as a member for Perth’s InDesign User Group and join us at our launch event on Tuesday evening 30th September @ Edith Cowan University Mt. Lawley.
We’ll be showing you the best of the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design applications.
How much does it cost? Nothing! Membership is free. However, seating is limited, so be sure to register.
Web-reference: Perth’s InDesign User Group
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Creative Suite LIVE - Melbourne (follow-up)
By Cari Jansen | September 1, 2008
Updated 5-Sep-2008 (fixed incorrect web-link)
The following list provides an overview of the Plug-ins and Scripts reviewed during the InDesign Add-Ons session at the Creative Suite LIVE Conference - Melbourne 28-29 September 2008.
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New Australian InDesign Blog and Tutorials
By Cari Jansen | August 27, 2008
Sydney’s Neil Oliver has started his very own InDesign blog called “Creative Mentor “, for all things to do with InDesign.
Neil writes short tips & tricks and records tutorial movies as well. Great to see you online Neil!
Web Reference: Creative Mentor (2008, Neil Oliver)
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How do I create fractions in InDesign?
By Cari Jansen | August 25, 2008
Digitip 075 - Adobe InDesign
InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign?
So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. Let me take you through five different methods…
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