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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 […]

Soft edged transparency effect

Soft edged transparency effect

Digitip 013 – Adobe Photoshop 7 How do I create one of those nice looking soft edge transparency effects on a photo? There are dozens of methods of creating this effect in Photoshop. The following is a quick ‘n easy method, that not only retains the original image information, it also allows for quick ‘n […]

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 […]