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Image formats – InDesign 2

Digitip 012 – Adobe InDesign 2 (revision 1.2) Photoshop format, PDF, Illustrator format, EPS or TIFF? Are you confused as to what to use in InDesign? The tables below are meant to give an overview of format preferences. Yes, you could stick with EPS and TIFF for all, but why deal with flattened files when you don’t have […]

Swatches added from other files

Swatches added from other files

Digitip 009 – Adobe InDesign 2 You can add spot colours, process colours, tint and gradient swatches used in one InDesign document to another. It is not possible to do this using a simple one-click method. There is however, a semi automatic method that allows adding of colour swatches used in one InDesign document to […]

Colouring a Cartoon

Colouring a Cartoon

Digitip 008 – Adobe Photoshop 7 Building on Nick Hodge’s spot colour Photoshop / InDesign tips I thought it would be nice to show a way of creating a simple cartoon, using one(spot)colour and black in Photoshop. It includes using a layer effect to spice-up the look a bit and calculations to extract the different […]