Category: Creative Pro
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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…
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Using Hyphens and Dashes Properly – Illustrator Typography
Do you know the difference between the hyphen, en dash, and em dash? Do you know when to use each to avoid embarrassing typographic and grammatical mistakes? Do you know how to insert all of them in Adobe Illustrator? Watch this quick video tutorial, and you’ll be able to answer “Yes!” to every one of…
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Building Multi-Page Variable Text Publications in InDesign
You can merge data into multi-page documents as easily as any other kind of document. To do that without spending hours or days manually inserting the same merge placeholders, you need the secret technique in this clip. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
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Building Fractions That Fit – Illustrator Typography
Creating fractions that don’t look anemic or spindly beside the rest of your text is easy but not entirely obvious to even frequent users of Adobe Illustrator. In this tutorial you will learn how to create well-formed, believable fractions using ANY combination of one, two, three, or more numbers in both the numerator and denominator…
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Using Small Caps Correctly – Illustrator Typography
Small caps, when used correctly, are common parts of typographic style. In this tutorial you will learn how small caps are often used incorrectly, how and when to use them correctly in any application, and what Illustrator can do with small caps. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC Typography.
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Merging Multiple Records Per Page in InDesign
Multiple records per page is the Data Merge method you want to employ for mailing labels, business cards, tent cards, stickers, and countless other projects that put more than a single record on each sheet of paper. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
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Understanding the Timing of Typography
Type has only 1 second to grab someone’s eye. Then it has only 3 seconds to convey it’s prima facie message. In some cases, your entire design has only 6 seconds to communicate it’s entire meaning, 6 seconds before the viewer’s eyes are gone forever. In this clip, you’ll learn about these timing rules as…
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Preparing Data Sources, Part 1: Getting Data to InDesign
Performing a data merge begins by preparing the data source and making sure your data is in the correct format. Problems with Data Merge almost always come down to something isn’t formatted properly in the Data Source. Pay close attention to this clip to prevent errors and show-stopping issues from cropping up in your VDP…
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Using the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator’s Touch Type Tool is a powerful, quick, and FUN way of transforming one or more letters within live, fully-editable type without having to jump around to a bunch of fields and panels. In this tutorial clip, you’ll learn to use the Touch Type Tool on a logo design to quickly move, rotate, and…
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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 Doing Math in Type Fields…