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Happy Holidays

By Cari Jansen | December 20, 2008

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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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Topics: adobe, digitip, indesign | 1 Comment »

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:

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

Topics: adobe, creative suite, indesign | No Comments »

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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Topics: adobe, indesign, plug-in, scripting | 4 Comments »

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)

Topics: adobe, indesign | 2 Comments »

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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Topics: GREP, adobe, digitip, fonts, indesign, scripting | 2 Comments »


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