Desktop Printing with QuarkXPress

Have you ever wondered why, no matter how much time you spend trying to find an option for it in QuarkXPress, you just cannot get that picture to print the way you want it? Be happy, or may be not, because it is not that you are overlooking the right options in the program. The option just does not exist in all versions of QuarkXPress prior to version 6.

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InDesign Tools Palette, Part 1

This is the first of several tutorials covering InDesign CS' tool palette. It covers the Selection tools, the Pen tool and the Type tool. It also gives tips and trick on how to make selections in InDesign.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Graphic Design>Adobe InDesign

InDesign Tutorial: Add Style and Save Time with Paragraph Style Sheets

Paragraph Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents.

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InDesign Tutorial: Advanced Typographical Controls

Find out how to use Adobe's single line and paragraph composer, hyphenation settings and other typographical controls.

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InDesign Tutorial: Design With Character - Character Style Sheets

Character Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents. Character Style Sheets are simply recorded format that you can then use in your design at will. Consistency is one of the principles that designers must follow. Character Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manually the same type of formatting over and over again throughout the document.

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InDesign Tutorial: Setting up a Document

Let's start with some basics. Here you will learn how to create a new document, add pages and other basic functions. A second tutorial will follow to complement this one.

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InDesign Tutorial: The Paragraph Palette

With this tutorial you will learn how to use InDesign's Paragraph Palette. Here is an explanation of most of InDesign's Paragrah Palette's functions which should arm you with enough knowledge to do most design tasks you might need to do while laying out a design document.

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InDesign Tutorial: the Tools Palette - Part 3

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InDesign Tutorial: The Tools Palette Part 2

This is a second tutorial about InDesign's Tools Palette, which follows a previous post from May 2005.

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InDesign's Work Area

This tutorial goes through the different parts that compose InDesign's work area. If you want to drive a car, you want to make sure that you know where the break is, where your wheel is, where your indicator is and so on. The same is for InDesign. You want to know where you can find all the tools that you will be using to create your InDesign documents.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign

An Overview of Desktop Publishing

The mission of Designorati:Desktop Publishing is to provide the knowledge, tips and tricks that can help you in your day to day work.

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The Pantone Matching System: Always Show Your True Colours

It can be very frustrating to see the logo you worked hard to create look deep blue on the client's letterhead, blue-greenish on his business card, and light blue on his very expensive envelopes. A way to prevent this is by using a standardized color matching system, such as the Pantone Matching System.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Pantone (2005). Design>Document Design>Prepress>Color

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Preserve Spot Colours in Photoshop

How many times have you wondered why, no matter how much you save spot colours in other applications, you cannot preserve a spot color in Photoshop? There is a way of course, and this is what this article will cover. This tutorial has been made using Photoshop CS for Mac, but it should be OK also for previous versions of Photoshop up to version 6, and of course also for whoever has the Windows version of Photoshop. This is not the only method to use spot colors in Photoshop, but it is a simple one which you could find useful.

Bruno, Elisabetta. About.com (2005). Resources>Document Design>Prepress

Prepress Tutorial: Preparing PDFs Made from Microsoft Word for Offset Printing

You just received this wonderful PDF from one of your clients. It was made from Word. On top of that, the client who gave you that PDF wants you to make some changes to the text. How do you make those changes using the PDF itself and what do you have to do to make that PDF press ready?

Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Resources>Document Design>Prepress>Adobe Acrobat

QuarkXPress Tutorial: QuarkXPress' Work Area

Familiarize yourself with QuarkXPress 6.x work area.

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Save Time With Xpress Design: Style Sheets With QuarkXPress

Consistency is one of the principles that designer must follow. Style Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manaully the same type of formatting over and over again thrughout the document. Let me give you an example. You are designing a magazine promoting a certain item. You want to have all of your titles with a certain font, a certain size and a certain colour. You can record all of these information in a Style Sheet and then apply them to each title with a click. Now, let's say that you decide that the titles are two small and they all have to be made 4 points bigger. Well, you just go to your Style Sheet and modify the size of your font there and all of the parts of text with that Style Sheet will change in one go. This tutorial is for users of QuarkXPress 5 and 6. If you want to know how to create Style Sheets in QuarkXPress 4 follow the instructions for QuarkXPress version 5.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>QuarkXPress

Review: The Study Technology

A book covering the barriers to study and their handling.

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ThinkCreation Blog

You can find desktop publishing tutorials, tips of the day and design resources.

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Threaded Text in InDesign CS

If you use Microsoft Word, you are used to the fact that if when your text will get to the end of a page, another page will be automatically added. With InDesign and most layout programs, this is a little bit different. This is because layout programs work with text boxes (or tex frames) which allow you more freedom when you lay out your document.

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Tips to Save Money When Printing Translated Work

When designing things in several languages, the cost of production can become quite high. However there are ways to save money and make the printing cost of flyers, magazines, etc. much lower. These tricks also apply when doing several versions of one job even if it's in the same language.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Prepress

Understanding Print Preview in Photoshop

This is a quick rundown of the Print with Preview function of Photoshop. While it is not a complete guide, it will satisfy the most common needs for the non-designer or the in-house designer. While this article is not meant to explain the Print Preview in all of its details, it will shed light on the most important ones.

Bruno, Elisabetta. About.com (2005). Design>Software>Document Design>Adobe Photoshop

Unexpected White Outlines Around Graphics In InDesign

Sometimes when making PDFs from InDesign, white outlines appear around graphics. Here's why and how to solve it.

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What's Your Position in the Client's Mind?

Marketing, copywriting and design are a triangle. They influence each other. Marketing however, is the key element as your copywriting and design should be based on previous marketing research.Even if you do not deal with marketing and you are only designing, you should know some basics of marketing because your designs are still influenced by the message and the image your company or client is trying to communicate.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Elisabetta Bruno (2005). Design>Information Design>Marketing

Working with Colour in InDesign CS

Explains the use of the Colour Palette and Swatches palette and how they relate to each other. It also briefly covers the Gradient Palette. Informative links explaining the difference between RGB, CMYK, hues, tints, etc. are also provided.

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