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Separations Preview and ink Manager

Separations Preview and ink Manager

Digitip 018 – Adobe InDesign CS revision 1.2 InDesign’s new separation preview window is intelligent, with direct access to the Ink Manager settings (palette’s fly-out menu) it immediately refers to colour separation settings used during output when displaying ink coverage readings. A pretty useful preflight and quick colour-fix tool.

A case for (nested) styles

A case for (nested) styles

Digitip 016 – Adobe InDesign CS (revision 2) Once upon a time Adobe created another best seller… For those who have been avoiding the use of styles in various programs and versions, the day has come to review this newest style feature introduced in InDesign cs. It’s smart, it’s easy-to-use, it’s a time-saver and it’s […]

Greyscale pic on colour background

Greyscale pic on colour background

Digitip 014 – Adobe InDesign 2 Rather than having to use the duotone image mode in Photoshop (using a flat tint “curve” for the tint colour), there is a simple trick in InDesign, that allows you to overprint greyscale images onto flat-tinted backgrounds. You can use one of two methods. The first method is a more […]