Once upon a time, vinyl record album covers were a major form of artistic expression and inspiration. Countless artists adorned their discs with iconic images and innovative typography. And while the album cover has long been in decline—first miniaturized with the coming of CDs, and now virtually obliterated in the age of digital music—all those […]
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A while back I wrote up a short blog post about a script that would let you delete all the images throughout your document — but leave the frames intact. A reader, Matt Byers, sent us an email recently with another solution. This works only for the images on the current spread, but it’s clever […]
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How to get the highlights applied to text in MS Word to come in correctly styled in InDesign.
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Every so often a plug-in comes along that is both productive and just plain fun to use. MirrorMe, an inexpensive plug-in for Illustrator CS5–CC from Astute Graphics, is one of those plug-ins. As the name suggests, MirrorMe can reflect objects in Illustrator across axes, but it’s far more than a fancy version of Illustrator’s Reflect […]
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128bit Technologies has expanded the collection of fonts you can download for free from their Macappware website. Eleven new fonts have been added to bring the total number of free fonts up to 56. All the fonts in the free collection are in cross-platform OpenType format, are licensed for commercial use, and come with a […]
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Today I’d like to introduce you to an overlooked InDesign feature: the Application Frame. The Application Frame is by no means new, as it dates back to CS4, and is also present in Illustrator and Photoshop. In fact, Steve Werner wrote about this 5 years ago. This only applies to the Macintosh version of InDesign, […]
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This article will teach you how to use Illustrator’s Create Object Mosaic command to transform your digital designs into a geometric grid-based pattern, for output using any analog media. Anything that can be constructed using tiles or a grid-based structure, can be charted and planned out in Illustrator using this technique. I am a knitter, so […]
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Adobe has announced the release of Configurator 4, the latest version of the utility for creating customized panels for Photoshop and InDesign. The new version supports Photoshop CC and the new Adobe Exchange. The Configurator 4 release also offers the following new features: Creative Cloud support Automatic conversion of panels from previous versions Open extensions […]
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Someone wrote us recently asking about how to format a word with grep styles, but it had to ignore the capitalization and accents that may or may not appear in the word. This is tricky because GREP is very specific; if you search for “Aardvark” it will not find “AArdvark” or “Aàrdvark” or any other […]
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