The following is a print-primer guest post from NetPublications, an “award-winning on-demand printing, publishing and fulfillment company with 25 years of experience in the book and manual business”.
There’s a lot to consider before printed products can go to press, so we’ve compiled a list of the top ten problems that occur when a printing company receives [...]
Posts in the "Graphic Design" Category
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Information graphics orinfographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics are used where complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. They are also used extensively as tools by computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians to ease the process of developing and communicating conceptual [...]
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This tutorial shows a method for using Adobe Bridge with the Multiplace command in InDesign CS3 and CS4.
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Rule 1
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KISS(Keep it simple stupid)
Rule 2
Take advice, you never know too much that you can’t take the advice of others, look at other magazines, newsletters etc, and especially, the rest of this list…
Rule 3
Determine what kind of document you’re producing. If we can break it down into two kinds:
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The Best Quark XPress Shortcuts
Quark has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but most of them aren’t mnemonic, so they are hard to remember. Here’s a list of the ones you’ll probably want to suffer to learn anyway. With one exception (noted below), these work in both version 3.3 and 4.0.Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V = Cut, Copy and Paste the [...]
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Implementing an InDesign CS3 and InCopy CS3 workflow transforms this process by making it easy to work with copy and design together. Using InDesign CS3, the designer makes layout content editable to InCopy users by putting individual spreads or the complete document on a networked file server. Using InCopy on their local computers, one or [...]
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Here are some “must-know” tips for who decide to start doing some pre-press and design for printing. As beginner you have to know that design for printing has some differences than web design or other screen designs.
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Always use CMYK
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Boolean Operations with Selections
This example shows how to Load, Add, Subtract, and Intersect selections between overlapping layers just with quick thumbnail clicks.Load Pixels to Selections
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In “Layer 2″ Command-click to load a fill as a selection. Any pixel which is not transparent in “Layer 2″ will be loaded as a selection. This is not the same [...] -
Selection in Photoshop
Photoshop selects pixels based one of the three properties, as shown in the image below:Chroma: is the color of the pixel. Color of a pixel is the level of RGB values and color based select tools like the Magic Wand. Select by color uses the RGB% as a criteria to group pixels based [...]
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When trimming out images in Photoshop, human hair or animal fur always proves troublesome and can be tricky to achieve a realistic look. Here are two techniques I use on images with both plain backgrounds, and those with a varied background tones, each achieving pretty decent end results.
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Technique One: Images with Plain Backgrounds
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About Me
I'm Bhuwan Timalsina from Nepal, Graphic designer and Web designer. My work covers print design, advertising, corporate identity and web design areas.
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