Category: Creative Pro
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Radio Imaging Terms Introduction
Master the language of radio imaging with this comprehensive guide to sweepers, stingers, promos, and more. Learn the essential terminology used in professional radio production and Adobe Audition courses for creating compelling sonic brand identities.
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Broadcast Clock: The Secret to Professional Podcasts, Radio, YouTube, and TV
The utility of a broadcast clock extends far beyond traditional radio, impacting virtually every form of time-based media.
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Looking Back: Adobe’s Decade of Transformation (2020-2030)
A look back on Adobe’s turbulent decade from 2020 to 2030, the “Adobe Wars” of the mid-2020s, and the fundamental restructuring of how creative software companies operate.
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Saving Printing Costs on VDP in InDesign
Most variable data publishing projects include some variable content and some static content. By printing the two separately, you can save on printing costs. This clip will help you conceptualize how to separate them, accomplish the separation, and plan for the most efficient and cost-effective methods of printing variable and static content. Excerpted from Pariah…
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Using Warichu in Japanese Text – Illustrator Typography
Warichu—or split annotation—is the East Asian typographic method of setting secondary or less important text in smaller double or triple lines. Adobe Illustrator CC has full support for East Asian typography, including robust Warichu options. In this tutorial clip from the 50-minute module (chapter) on “Working with Asian and Indic Type” in Pariah Burke’s Illustrator…
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Updating Data After Merging with and without XML in InDesign
Most data merge operations create the merged documents and then never update them again. Other projects, like point-of-sale signage, mailers, and a host of other VDP designs, need to be able to update, alter, and even completely replace the data set after merging using a Live Merge document. This clip is a teaser that shows…
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Using Middle Eastern & South Asian Composers in Adobe Illustrator
When working in Hindi, Punjabi, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or any of two dozen other Middle Eastern or South Asian languages, you’ll want to make use of the correct paragraph composition engine in Adobe Illustrator CC. This tutorial will show you how to do just that. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC…
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Working with Styles Effectively in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial clip you will learn efficient paragraph and character style management and use techniques in Adobe Illustrator CC, including: Importing Graphic, Paragraph, and Character Styles from Other Files Sharing Styles with Other Illustrator Users Using CC Libraries to Store, Reuse, and Share Styles to Yourself and Others And, Cleaning Unused Styles from Documents…
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Auto-Fitting Images During Data Merge in InDesign
Any time you’re dealing with images from disparate sources and with differing compositions you’ll almost certainly need to do some manual adjustment of the images after merging. It’s just the nature of the work. Add just a couple of simple steps at the beginning, and you can save yourself minutes, hours, even days of individually…
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Perfecting Punctuation and Sentence Endings – Illustrator Typography
In this tutorial clip you will learn how to… Use Adobe Illustrator’s Smart Punctuation for automatic clean up of dumb quotes, missing ligatures, and more. Hang punctuation for better, cleaner flush edges. How many spaces should REALLY be after a period. How many punctuation marks to use at the end of sentences. And, how to…