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 […]
Digitip 007 – Adobe Illustrator 10 I often asked the following question during Illustrator training: How can we put an image inside text. There are a number of work methods that can create this result. Two of these methods are Clipping masks and Opacity masks. For both methods the starting point is similar: black text […]
Digitip 006 – InDesign 2 Do you find that the automatic “Detect Edges” or “Transparency Channel” text wrap option in InDesign creates too many points for the wrap path? The semi-automatic method is a bit of a work-around which creates smoother text wrap paths around transparent images. First let’s look at the automatic methods.