Category: Courses OLD FORMAT
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Advanced eBooks: Fixed Layout eBooks from QuarkXPress
You will learn the process and techniques of creating fully illustrated (full-page image) picture books and children’s books using industry standard desktop layout software Adobe InDesign. We’ll also use Photoshop to prepare images for publication. (Open this page for examples of fixed layout, fully illustrated picture and children’s books.)
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Advanced eBooks: Fixed Layout eBooks from InDesign
You will learn the process and techniques of creating fully illustrated (full-page image) picture books and children’s books using industry standard desktop layout software Adobe InDesign. We’ll also use Photoshop to prepare images for publication. (Open this page for examples of fixed layout, fully illustrated picture and children’s books.)
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Illustrator
Used by illustrators, designers, artists, fashion designers, engineers, architects, and Web and mobile designers, Adobe Illustrator is the veteran vector graphics powerhouse that has dominated the market for 30 years. Illustrator gives users both absolute precision and unfettered artistic freedom to design logos, illustrations, products, maps, charts, photo-realistic paintings, and much more.
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InDesign
Adobe InDesign Training with world renowned InDesign guru Pariah Burke is an essential part of designing successful print and digital publications.
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Advanced eBook Design
The best, most stylish, most interesting ebooks (ePUB, Mobi, iBooks, Kindle, more) are not those that use the default formatting and styling exported by InDesign, QuarkXPress, Pages, Word, or another program. The ebooks that people respond to most use different fonts, colored text, dropcaps, headings and subheads, embedded video, improved typography, and other enhancements we’ll…
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Overcoming the Top 5 Pain Points of Switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign
A lot of designers are making the move from QuarkXPress to Adobe’s InDesign. But if you’re a proficient QuarkXPress user, some features of InDesign seem counterintuitive, confusing and downright frustrating. Below, learn how to overcome the top five pain points. 1. Quark’s Runaround versus InDesign’s TextWrap In QuarkXPress, runaround is the process of forcing text…
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What is a JPF file and how do you use it?
What is a .JPF file? JPF is the file extension for a JPEG 2000 file, which, at its most basic, is the next generation of JPEG (aka JPG). The JPEG file format was created in the Nineties by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (see the symmetry here?). JPEG 2000, also created by the Joint Photographic…
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Taking A Client To Court
Disclaimer: I am not an attorney, nor am I qualified to provide legal advice. The below is based on my 15+ years professional experience as a graphic designer and design agency principal. Use it as a guideline. Before engaging in any legal action, consult a licensed attorney in your local jurisdiction. As much as we…
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Creating Contracts: Project Milestones & Materials Delivery Responsibilities
Writing effective, professional client contracts is one of the top five most requested and most confusing business tasks facing graphic designers, web designers, and other creatives today. Designer Contracts is an ongoing series of articles designed to help creatives write better, more thorough contracts that protect creatives, their clients, and both parties’ rights, and helps…
