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Monthly Archives: April 2015

Free lynda.com Video: Putting a Box Around or Behind a Paragraph

There aren’t very many features in Microsoft Word that would make InDesign users jealous, but the ability to quickly and easily put a box around a paragraph is one. But in his latest video from the InDesignSecrets series at lynda.com, David Blatner shows you two simple methods to box a paragraph, so you needn’t be quite so […]

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The Mystery of the Upside Down Master Page Contest Answer and Winners!

It’s time to reveal the solution (and prize winners) for this month’s InDesignSecrets contest! This time, the mystery involved an upside-down master page. In the screenshot below, we’re looking at a master spread that has been applied to one document spread. But you’d have to stand on your head for it to look like the document spread. Something […]

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Quilted Periodic Table of the Elements

If you’re a science nut and love to show your geeky side, why let sleeping get in the way of that pride? Cuddle up with the periodic table of elements while you dream of beakers, test tubes, and Bunsen burners. That’s right, you can get the classic classroom chart as an 8-foot by 4-foot toasty […]

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Adobe Releases Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC

This week (April 21, 2015) Adobe Released Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC 2015, providing both a standalone version of Lightroom and one available to Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers. This has been a long-awaited release for the photography community and we are going to walk you through what the new Lightroom 6 and Lightroom CC versions […]

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TypeTalk: The Hand Lettering, Calligraphy, and Design of Gail Brill

Gail Brill is a truly gifted artist whose talents embrace an impressive blend of hand lettering, calligraphy, illustration, and graphic design. Not only is she proficient in numerous styles of calligraphy and lettering, but her watercolor illustrations are absolutely charming. Then there is her graphic design background, which affords her the ability to pull all […]

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Hail to the Glyph: Hillvetica is a Typeface with Presidential Ambitions

Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she was officially running for President in 2016 was accompanied by the unveiling of her campaign logo. And while the logo seems to have been designed to appeal to both “blue” or “red” folks, thus far it has received mixed reviews at best. Some praised its simplicity, others calling it amateurish, and a ripoff […]

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