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Illustrator: Creating a swatch set from an image

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

During our InDesign Trivia night at the Perth InDesign User Group in December, we had some fun with colours in InDesign. Updated: 5-Jan-2010: Added Video Tutorial at end of transcript Here’s one of the scenario’s we used: So you’re working on a layout in InDesign, and although you know you can use the Eyedropper tool […]

InDesign: Creative with Paragraph Rules

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

I’ve used paragraph rules from my early days when working with that other page-layout application back in the late 1980s (yes, I’m THAT old!).  I used them to create the horizontal lines in tabular tables before table styles were invented (I was the “annual report girl” in my production days), and I have used paragraph […]

Letterpress and Deconvolution Sharpening

Tech News Worldwide

Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls. Fall of Autumn‘s Alan Lastufka is the producer of the following video on Letterpress. Letter Press From job case, leading, quads, coppers & brasses, guide pins, chase & furniture to inking and […]