Tag Archive for 'InDesign'

Adobe Creative Suite CS4 – New Tools & Features Videos From Layers Magazine

Published on September 23, 2008 in software. 0 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Creative Suite, CS4, grpahics, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, software.

Layers Magazine has a hefty selection of videos showcasing the new tools and features of all the Adobe Creative Suite CS4. Each video is a short demo/tutorial,walkthough/how-to of all the new stuff you can expect in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and the rest of the software in CS4.

by George Coghill
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Setting Up Bleeds For Print Design In Creative Suite

Published on August 27, 2008 in productivity and tips. 1 Comment Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, art, Creative Suite, CS3, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, printing, process, software, tip, tutorials, walkthrough.

Although technically these tips apply to any graphics software, this particular tutorial over at Spoon Graphics focuses on the exact steps to set up bleeds for print design in your document within Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. The method to do so in other graphics application might be slightly different, but these walkthroughs should give you enough info to apply it to non-Adobe software.

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Cartoon Genie Concert Poster

Published on June 5, 2008 in Illustration and cartooning. 1 Comment Tags: art, cartoon, cartooning, character, design, fez, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, mascot, Photoshop, poster, sketch, vector, Wacom.

I recently completed a concert poster design featuring a fez-wearing cartoon genie mascot character for Nashville, Tennessee roots-rock jam band Vinyl Soup.

I have been working with guitarist Andrew Hooker for some time now with t-shirt designs, a logo redesign, concert posters and other promotional materials for the band.

Recent gig poster design work for Vinyl Soup had started to go down a path of design-only work. Andrew initially contacted me for a t-shirt design for the band, and his initial interest was in my cartooning/illustration work.

Starting out on concepts for this poster, I was again working on a solely design-oriented approach, and before I got too far along I dropped Andrew an email to see if going back to an illustrative style would be cool with him. It most certainly was, so I set about to work up a theme for the poster.

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Illustrator File Previews: SneakPeek Pro QuickLook Plugin For Mac OS X

Published on May 27, 2008 in productivity. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, artist, design, eps, Finder, font, FreeHand, illustrator, InDesign, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, PDF, plugin, shareware, software, vector.

SneakPeek Pro is a QuickLook plugin fro Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”). In a nutshell, it extends file previews in both QuickLook and the Finder to previously unsupported file types such as Adobe Illustrator .ai files and EPS files.

If you aren’t familiar with QuickLook, it’s a pretty awesome new feature of 10.5 which allows you to quickly preview a good number of core file types — PDF, JPG, PSD, Word docs, movies, text files and more — without actually opening an application. One just needs to tap the spacebar with a file highlighted in the Finder, and a floating bezel-type window opens up with the full image, document or movie. Even works with multi-page documents as well. It’s just plain awesome.

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InDesign CS3 & Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”: The Good, The Bad & The Not-Too-Shabby

Published on May 6, 2008 in reviews. 0 Comments Tags: 10.5, Adobe, Apple, art, Creative Suite, CS3, illustrator, InDesign, Intel, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X, MacPro, software.

A while back I was ranting about the myriad issues I had been reading about concerning Adobe InDesign CS3 and Apple’s (then) new operating system Mac OSX 10.5 “Leopard”. I am happy to report that upon upgrading to 10.5, and using InDesign CS3, everything has been working (for the most part) just great.