Get It Inline  

Inline frames in Adobe InDesign help you keep your text and graphic frames (or text frames or groups) sticking together.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1999). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign

Getting the Lead In  

Working with leading grids can make your PageMaker layouts faster, easier, and better-looking - and you don't even have to be Swiss.

Cole, Tim. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe PageMaker

Getting to the Finish Line  

You're a designer, so you shouldn't waste your creative energy worrying about how your Illustrator document will print, right? Wrong. Spending a few minutes planning your project can ensure that its final output will go smoothly, potentially saving you hours of printing-related hassles.

Alspach, Ted. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Prepress

Growing Up With Acrobat  

PDF moves toward its destiny as the full-service, customizable digital file format we all want.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too  

Tips and advice on creating PDF files that are attractive, readable, and easy to download.

Nordling, Tamis and Wendy Katz. Adobe Magazine (1996). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat

Hot Shots  

The elusive screen, captured at last.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Screen Captures

How to Break Out of the Cell  

The grid of a table can feel like a prison sometimes—too confining, dreary and dull. Important information just mopes inside the cells.

Valiulis, Dave. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design

Idea Generators  

Stuck for design ideas? Try messing around with plug-in filters for Illustrator.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Illustrator

Illuminating Illustrations  

Too often, illustrations just sit there, taking up space on the page. Here's how to make them work.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1996). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design

Illustrators Unite!  

An under-the-hood look at Illustrator's versatile unite filter.

Zeitman, Randy. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Adobe Illustrator

Images of Science  

Photoshop gets involved with rhinos, criminals, ancient math, and the microscope.

Shuster, Robert. Adobe Magazine (1999). Design>Graphic Design>Technical Illustration>Adobe Photoshop

The Ineffable Mystery of Paper Grades  

It was so much easier when we just had papyrus.

Sidles, Constance J. Adobe Magazine (1999). Design>Publishing>Prepress>Paper

Intriguing Possibilities  

A track matte is a simple (but somewhat hidden) masking technique that you can use in Adobe Premiere and After Effects. You may be surprised to learn how versatile it is, and your audience will think you've gone p

Shuster, Robert. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Multimedia>Video

Is the Internet a Self-Correcting Mechanism?  

The hype surrounding the hype surrounding the Internet has made it into all kinds of animals. But it's a self-correcting mechanism.

Fleishman, Glenn. Adobe Magazine (1996). Articles>Information Design>Collaboration

It's a Colorful, Wired World  

Adobe® PostScript 3 printing systems offer a variety of new features for better, faster, Web-savvy printing. Here's an overview of what they are and how they're likely to affect you.

Nordling, Tamis and Wendy Katz. Adobe Magazine (1997). Articles>Document Design>Prepress>Color

It's All in the Process  

Information design, according to practitioners like the Berlin-, London-, and San Francisco-based firm MetaDesign, is about more than just conveying complex information clearly. To work well, it has to be a process in which designers and clients act as partners.

Senechal, Ann. Adobe Magazine (1997). Design>Information Design>Workflow

Kinetic Energy  

Spaceships flying across your Web page? With dhtml and GoLive, you can make anything move.

Niemi, Melissa. Adobe Magazine (2000). Articles>Web Design>Software>Adobe GoLive

Knowing Your Rights  

The increasing popularity of Web publishing isn't just changing the way that intellectual property (creative works such as text, images, and even software) is distributed, it's also changing the way such work is bought, sold, licensed, and - in some cases 'borrowed.'

Roberts, Paul. Adobe Magazine (1998). Articles>Intellectual Property>Copyright

Let Photoshop Do the Driving  

Photoshop's Actions feature is a powerful tool for automating repetitive tasks or even batch-processing files, and you'll work more effectively with it if you know exactly what Actions can and can't automate.

Dayton, Linnea and Jack Davis. Adobe Magazine (1997). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Link Before You Leap  

When you remodel, go for broke - but don't break the links.

Fleishman, Glenn. Adobe Magazine (2000). Design>Web Design>Redesign

Linking 101  

Linking is surely one of the least understood functions of many applications. But if anyone can explain how it works in PageMaker, Illustrator, and FrameMaker, Professor Kvern can.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Document Design>Hypertext

Looking Sharp  

How to get the most out of the Photoshop sharpening controls - complete with show-and-tell examples.

Blatner, David and Steve Roth. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Adobe Photoshop

Making the Grade  

If you thought gradients were just a matter of getting two colors together, take a look at how sophisticated they've become.

Alspach, Ted. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Software

Making the Leap  

Increasingly, designers and publishers are finding themselves thrust into the world of 'new media.' Here's an overview of what to expect.

Larkin, James. Adobe Magazine (1995). Careers>Multimedia>TC

The Many Faces of Cheapness  

In the spirit of Adobe Magazine's Cheap Tricks Contest, a grab-bag of ways to save money, save time, and cheat fate.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1996). Design>Document Design>Prepress