Category: Broadcast

This ses­sion was not record­ed. We dis­cussed what­ev­er came to mind, includ­ing the fol­low­ing top­ics: The val­ue of Adobe ACE, ADA, and ACI cer­ti­fi­ca­tions and exams to design­ers Fractals in Photoshop with the Genuine…

Designers--print, Web, motion, fash­ion, mobile, or any oth­er kind--have to pay a lot of mon­ey for their soft­ware and oth­er mate­ri­als. So, when­ev­er I can help them save a buck, I will. This show I’ll focus on all…

Illustrator has always been my tool of choice for Web design sketch­ing, comp­ing, and even final graph­ics out­put. And I’m not alone in that pref­er­ence. Others have learned to use InDesign for the same…

Need to cre­ate dig­i­tal mock­ups of pro­mo items—maybe putting a com­pa­ny logo on a cof­fee mug, drink bot­tle, or oth­er non-flat sur­face? I’ll show you how. Wish there was an easy way to add folds and waves…

Vector, every­one knows, is res­o­lu­tion independent—drawings can be enlarged or reduced to infin­i­ty with­out loss of qual­i­ty. The prob­lem is, get­ting smooth, real­is­tic col­or tran­si­tions in vec­tor isn’t easy… Or is it? Realism and photo-realism…

In this ses­sion I’ll showed off some awe­some text effects that can be accom­plished in almost any ver­sion of InDesign, from CS3 and CS4 to CS5 and beyond. The effects includ­ed… Setting Vertical Side Heads…

Continuing with the awe­some pow­er of auto­mat­ed styling, this time we went deep into the world of Nested Styles and GREP Styles. Using these you can for­mat an entire com­pli­cat­ed document—even some­thing as style-rich…

Paragraph and char­ac­ter styles are the key to keep­ing your san­i­ty while work­ing with lots of text. In this Tuesday with Pariah we went deep into the pow­er and util­i­ty of para­graph styles and…

Out of the box, InDesign mea­sures every­thing in pica. Illustrator, out of the box, loads a basic and rather bland set of brush­es. Photoshop, by default, loads gener­ic col­ors instead of your cor­po­rate col­ors. Wouldn’t…

The top­ic was InDesign CS5’s amaz­ing new Column Spanning and Splitting fea­tures. I showed you how to use them, then answered ques­tions about Live Corner Effects and Live Captions. [The record­ing of this episode is…