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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 […]

Mediabox, bleedbox, trimbox info

Mediabox, bleedbox, trimbox info

Digitip 011 – Adobe Acrobat 6 When creating PDFs that are PDF/X compliant it is a requirement that the MediaBox, TrimBox and BleedBox are properly defined in the PDF. Acrobat 6’s Crop command is a handy tool to reference the various box sizes.