Category: Creative Pro
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Tips for Working with Multiple Records Per Page: InDesign Data Merge & VDP
Now that you know the fundamentals of merging to multiple records per page, here are important details and tips to make your work easier and more creative. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
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Importing Text from Microsoft Word in Adobe Illustrator
More and more lately, Illustrator users are being asked to include passages, sometimes multiple pages of, text in documents. That textual content often comes from writers and editors using Microsoft Word, Google Docs, and other applications that create Word files. In this tutorial clip, you’ll learn how to import to Illustrator CC text from Microsoft…
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Threading and Unthreading Text Objects in Adobe Illustrator
InDesign isn’t the only Adobe application used for paragraphs of text. Illustrator, too, can handle lots of text. It can put all that text into an Area Type object, and, when the text is too much for a single area, it can thread multiple Area Type objects, flowing text smoothly between different places on the…
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Preparing Data Sources, Part 2: Structuring Data for InDesign
Special codes and symbols in data sources, even something as simple as a comma or quotation mark, need special handling to function in InDesign’s Data Merge. 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…
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Getting Creative with Variable Text in InDesign
Variable text doesn’t have to be plain or boring. Anything you can do to text in InDesign, you can do to merged text. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC: Data Merge & Variable Data Printing: http://abbrv.it/vidIDVDP
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Putting Images Inside Type in Adobe Illustrator
Filling type with imagery is easy and can produce stunning type. In this tutorial clip you’ll learn how to put an image inside type and how to reposition that image within the type to get the perfect fit. Excerpted from Pariah Burke’s comprehensive Pluralsight video course, Illustrator CC Typography.
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Colorizing Black and White Photos in InDesign
In this tutorial, a free lesson from the Pluralsight video course, Designing in Duotone in InDesign by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDDuotone), you will learn how to colorize black and white photos directly in InDesign, replacing the monotone greyscale with another color for visually appealing non-black monotone or in preparation for duotone. This technique works with all…
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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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Exporting from InDesign CC to JPEG, Interactive PDF, and Publish Online
This free lesson snippet from the Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC Designing a Flyer by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDFlyer) will teach you how to export one or more pages from an InDesign document to… JPG or PNG images for posting to Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and More to Interactive PDF for posting to your website or sending…