Pariah Burke Consulting & Training with Creative & Publishing Workflow Expert Pariah S. Burke | Informing & Empowering Creative Professionals™

We all use PDFs and Adobe Acrobat on a reg­u­lar basis–the mod­ern world couldn’t func­tion with­out PDFs. Still, despite the con­stant use, there are many fea­tures and almost mys­ti­cal pow­ers within Acrobat Pro that even the most expe­ri­enced users don’t know about. In this 2-hour ses­sion we’ll explore those hid­den gems and what they can do in the real world for you and your work.

Charts and graphs don’t have to be bor­ing. In fact, using Adobe Illustrator, they can be down right amaz­ing! Whether you import data from Excel, Apple Numbers, Google Docs Spreadsheet, or another data set or fill in the num­bers directly in Illustrator, you can be cre­at­ing gor­geous, highly illus­tra­tive, option­ally 3D pie charts, bar charts, col­umn charts, radar charts, and many more in just minutes!

This 3-hour work­shop will teach you 10 amaz­ing pro­duc­tiv­ity tech­niques to speed your work in InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5 and reduce repet­i­tive, wasted effort. Real World InDesign Productivity Secrets will have you spend­ing less time on the bor­ing, repeative, creativity-sucking tasks and more time doing what you love: being cre­ative in InDesign for print design, tablet pub­lish­ing, ebook pub­lish­ing, and any other use you have for InDesign.

Ever wanted to put pho­tographs inside text or cre­ate stamped or cutout text for your brochures? How about cre­at­ing cast shad­ows of text for fliers? Making your own hol­i­day cards or invi­ta­tions? Why not cre­ate a col­lage of images inside the shape of a jack-o-lantern, valen­tine, or any shape? In this online course you’ll learn how to do all of that and more in just a few easy steps in Adobe InDesign CS4/CS5/CS5.5.

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  It’s been a stormy year for book pub­lish­ing, with many major play­ers in the indus­try mak­ing big changes.

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