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  • Merging Multiple Records Per Page in InDesign

    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

  • Converting Document Pages to Master Pages – InDesign Tip of the Week

    Converting Document Pages to Master Pages – InDesign Tip of the Week

  • Understanding the Timing of Typography

    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…

  • Generating Color Themes from Images with the Color Theme Tool – InDesign Tip of the Week

    Generating Color Themes from Images with the Color Theme Tool – InDesign Tip of the Week

  • Using the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator

    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…

  • Sizing Type Relative to Other Type Sizes – InDesign Tip of the Week

    Sizing Type Relative to Other Type Sizes – InDesign Tip of the Week

  • Type Sizing Tricks in Adobe Illustrator

    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…

  • Finding Word and Character Counts – InDesign Tip of the Week

    Finding Word and Character Counts – InDesign Tip of the Week

  • Tips for Working with Multiple Records Per Page: InDesign Data Merge & VDP

    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

  • Importing Text from Microsoft Word in Adobe Illustrator

    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…