• InDesign CC Data Merge and Variable Data Printing

    InDesign CC Data Merge and Variable Data Printing

    From simple form letters and mailing labels to personalized children’s books and ebooks, from catalogs to yearbooks, from batch-created business cards to direct mailers that make recipients’ names and past purchases part of the artwork, InDesign’s Data Merge lets you and your clients easily incorporate Variable Data Printing (VDP), automated document generation from InDesign templates,…

  • Colorizing Black and White Photos in InDesign

    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…

  • Setting Type Above and Below a Circle in Adobe Illustrator

    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…

  • Exporting from InDesign CC to JPEG, Interactive PDF, and Publish Online

    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…

  • Editing Original in Batch – InDesign Tip of the Week

    Editing Original in Batch – InDesign Tip of the Week

  • Photoshop: Adding Spot Channels to Duotones in Photoshop

    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…