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Building a Book Cover in InDesign with 3-Up Layout of Cover, Spine, and Back Cover
This free lesson snippet from the Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC Designing a Book Cover and Spine by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDBookSpine) will teach you the secret to arranging three pages side-by-side-by-side for a wraparound book cover or any type of document.
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Type Sizing Tricks in Adobe Illustrator
Learn tricks for sizing type without compromising quality, unnecessary mental acrobatics, or losing your train of thought. In this tutorial you will learn incredibly handy, master-level type sizing tricks including: – Resizing Type with the Black Arrow – Using Decimal Values – Entering Values That Are Not Points – Shortcutting Type Sizing with Percentages –…
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Giving Text Background Colors with Paragraph Shading in InDesign CC
This free lesson, a snippet from the Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC Designing a Flyer by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDFlyer), will teach you how to easily and instantly give text a background color in InDesign CC. You will create reversed text and more instantly!
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Setting Type Above and Below a Circle in Adobe Illustrator
It seems like it should be simple—setting text above and below a circle, curving over the top and bottom, while still remaining upright and easily read. It seems like it should be simple, but it baffles many new and occasional Illustrator users. In this clip, you’ll learn how simple it REALLY is, once you know…
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Installing Fonts Only for Use by Adobe Illustrator and Other Adobe Applications
For a variety of reasons you, or your I.T. department, might want to install fonts but limit their availability to only one or more Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Fonts would then be available to Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, or other Adobe applications, but not available for use in Microsoft Word or any non-Adobe application. In this…
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Drawing Starbursts and Seals – InDesign Tip of the Week






