2011 February

The ePublishing Workflow Webinar

The Digital Publishing mar­ket is explod­ing, so it’s now more impor­tant than ever to learn how to cre­ate e-books, e-magazines, e-catalogs, and more. The ePub­lish­ing Workflow Webinar will give you the skills you need to stay rel­e­vant and on top of this sec­ond dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing revolution.

InDesign to iPad Digital Publishing and Deployment, Start to Finish Webinar

A Master Class inten­sive 2-day sem­i­nar using InDesign, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Aquafadas, and more to go from blank page through to pro­duc­ing a pol­ished inter­ac­tive dig­i­tal mag­a­zine run­ning on the iPad. The same pub­li­ca­tion will also run on Android-based tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Motorola Xoom, and other tablets. This course teaches afford­able dig­i­tal magazine/catalog pro­duc­tion, not only Adobe’s $495 monthly option.

The Truth About Copyright (and Trademark) for Creative Professionals

Graphic design­ers, Web design­ers, artists, writ­ers, and other cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als today are awash in con­flict­ing, mis­lead­ing infor­ma­tion about copy­right and trade­mark. This webi­nar will give you the truth from actual intel­lec­tual prop­erty attorneys—truth you need in order to know and enforce your rights, save your busi­ness, and to stay out of court and out of jail.

Creatives on the go need to stay cre­ative. You can do that with apps that let you view and cre­ate color palettes; design­ing and iden­ti­fy­ing fonts; plan and con­trol photo shoots; and keep mobile devices safe and secure.read more

Interesting, share-worthy links 09 February 2011 through 18 February 2011.

Continuing the dis­cus­sion from my 1 February 2011 pre­sen­ta­tion to the San Jose Adobe Creative Suite User Group and the Vancouver, BC Adobe InDesign User Group, I’ll be talk­ing about the fol­low­ing items and probably more:

  • Gridify image place­ment in InDesign CS5
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Fonts, email newslet­ter tem­plates, InDesign scripts, and more are all yours free for the taking.read more

Interesting, share-worthy links 07 January 2011 through 09 February 2011.

With free WordPress soft­ware and a pow­er­ful but easy to use port­fo­lio or photo-blog theme, even design­ers and pho­tog­ra­phers who aren’t Web experts can get a port­fo­lio online in less than an hour.read more

Get set for 2,010 free Photoshop brushes in nine cat­e­gories: Spray and Paint; Light Streaks and Effects; People; Abstract; Grunge; Space and Sky; Vintage; Doodles; and Paper. All of the brushes are ready for CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5.read more

In this install­ment of “Free for All,” you’ll find plug-ins, appli­ca­tions, and online ser­vices that will make you more indus­tri­ous. I’ve also thrown in 25 industrial-style fonts. And as always, they’re free.read more

You can use these free tex­tures for print and Web designs. The files are com­pat­i­ble with Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and more.read more

Discover an online ser­vice that lets you cre­ate smoke and flame images; browse thou­sands of fonts; import and export Photoshop work­spaces; and set up con­fer­ence calls for as many as 95 users that can last for up to 6 hours. And as always, it’s all free…

This bipo­lar edi­tion of Free for All focuses on the highly tech­ni­cal and the highly whim­si­cal, from free fonts for the pin­na­cle of sci­en­tific, med­ical, and tech­ni­cal pub­lish­ing, to more than one hun­dred vec­tor and PNG car­toon thought and speech bubbles…

In this install­ment, you’ll enjoy free Photoshop actions, bokeh-licious back­grounds, right-angled fonts, and a time­line creator.read more

This install­ment includes free­bies that address your busi­ness side and your cre­ative side, whether you work in print or on the Web.read more

This install­ment of free resources includes stock pho­tos, a paint­ing appli­ca­tion, Pantone libraries, an InDesign CS5 helper, and a color calculator.read more

This install­ment focuses on free forms of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, from words that don’t mean any­thing to sym­bols that mean every­thing. read more

There’s amaz­ing breadth and depth to the free­bies in this install­ment. Print design­ers, Web design­ers, and artists will all find resources so good, you’d pay for them!read more

Get ready to be fright­ened by this col­lec­tion of free Halloween-themed pho­tos, fonts, sounds, and more. read more

Death, taxes, and import­ing Word files into InDesign: They’re all inevitable. I can’t help with the first two, but here’s how to make the best of the third.read more

In this install­ment, you’ll find a geo­graphic sym­bol font; tilable tex­tures and pat­terns; Illustrator resources; a branded file-transfer ser­vice; and online tilt-shift effects.read more

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  • All of it–it was all valuable and enlightening. Everything–from the valuable resources, to the hands-on things in InDesign that I hadn’t seen before. I will be using these skills immediately and in the future.
    —Denise, Design4 Graphic & Web Design
  • [I learned] many, many skills, including some I can use for immediate application.
    —Roger K.
  • [I learned] many, many skills, including some I can use for immediate application.
    —Roger K.