Category: Creative Pro
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Photoshop: Adding Spot Channels to Duotones in Photoshop
In this tutorial, a free lesson from the Pluralsight video course, Designing in Duotone in Photoshop by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidPSDuotone), you will learn how to colorize any part of an image–or the entire image–using PANTONE and other spot colors using Spot Channels. Along the way you will also learn how to create color channels from…
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Handling Legacy Text in Adobe Illustrator
Working with older Illustrator documents—your own or others—could give you a scary-looking warning telling you that your document has Legacy Text. In this tutorial clip you’ll learn what Legacy Text is as well as how simple it is to be rid of it, bringing your ancient Illustrator documents into the modern age. Excerpted from Pariah…
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Designing Your Book’s Spine in InDesign CC
This free lesson, a snippet from the Pluralsight video course, InDesign CC Designing a Book Cover and Spine by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidIDBookSpine) will teach you what information should be on your book cover’s spine and how to add that information easily.
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Photoshop: Using Gradient Maps for Duotone Effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial, a free lesson from the Pluralsight video course, Designing in Duotone in Photoshop by Pariah Burke (http://abbrv.it/vidPSDuotone), you will learn how to non-destructively convert any greyscale or full-color photograph to monotone, duotone, and tritone with any colors you can imagine. This technique works with Photoshop CS6 and later (including all versions of…
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InDesign: Generating Shade Swatches (Color Stepped with Black) 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 generate shade swatches. Tint swatches create swatches of a color mixed with white. ivermectin for cattle for sale Shade swatches are that color mixed with black, creating darkened color steps.…
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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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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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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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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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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…