Showing posts with label InDesign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label InDesign. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 October 2008

Grids. Fundamentals of Print Design

Designing with grids adds unity and aesthetic feeling to your composition. Grids can be, horizontal, vertical and diagonal (rotated). Since page Layout design is a common task in many business fields and it's never too bad to be informed on time. The tutorial below explores some handy techniques for building better page grids.
"Master the grids and guides features of your layout software. Alistair Dabbs shows you how to endow your print design work with more structure, consistency – and speed...

Any print project that runs across more than one page probably needs a layout grid. Officially, the purpose of a grid is to standardise the basic layout features from one page to the next, thereby maintaining visual consistency across the entire publication." Full tutorial & source files.
Via ComputerArs Magazine.

Thursday, 25 September 2008

Creative Suite 4 (cnet review)

"Adobe released details Monday about Creative Suite 4, its first update to more than a dozen design and editing tools since Adobe CS3 some 17 months ago.
The costs of the applications, set to reach consumers in October, haven't changed since CS3, but remain hefty. Should longtime users upgrade?" Read Full review

Thursday, 6 March 2008

InPreflight

Zevriz has updated InPreflight, a quality control solution for Adobe InDesign that lets users locate potential problems and produce error-free documents, to version 2.2.5. The software now correctly reports the color mode of Illustrator CS3 EPS files saved with the “Include Thumbnail” option. Full article