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Will the Real Garamond Please Stand Up?
Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology, recently quipped, “There are now over 200,000 typefaces, most of them based on Garamond.” O.K., that’s an exercise of comic license, but it’s hard to understate the influence of the designs of 16th-century French punch cutter Claude Garamond (whose name is sometimes spelled Garamont). Looking […]
Continue readingManaging Tips Between Numbered Lists
You don’t want to have to reset numbers manually when two numbered lists collide.
Continue readingEvery Single InDesignSecrets Podcast on One Page
Who knew that our podcast host was quietly creating and updating an InDesignSecrets podcast site? Great for browsing and searching, bookmark it!
Continue readingUse InDesign Table of Contents to Make PDF Bookmarks
Do you want bookmarks in your PDF, but don’t want to create them manually in Acrobat? The Table of Contents feature can make them for you.
Continue readingTattly Turns One
Last summer, swissmiss (aka Tina Roth Eisenberg) launched Tattly.com, an online shop for hip and humorous temporary tattoos. At the time, some of the cool "designy" tats were featured in the news here, like the Tattone swatch and the Aperture. Over the past year, the Tattly collection has expanded from an initial modest group of […]
Continue readingAdobe Inspire for iPad
Adobe Inspire Magazine (formerly the Adobe Edge newsletter) is a free bi-monthly publication containing original articles and video to inform, enlighten, and inspire web designers and web developers. The latest issue (June 2012) marks the premiere of Inspire for iPad. The issue features Q&A on Adobe’s Creative Cloud, articles on Adobe Touch apps, how to […]
Continue readingABBYY FineScanner Turns iPhones and iPads into Mobile Scanners
ABBYY, makers of OCR, text extraction, and document conversion software have released a new app that can turn your iPhone or iPad in to all-purpose mobile scanner. ABBYY FineScanner allows users to scan documents, receipts, magazine and newspaper articles, presentation slides (including charts and graphs), and more, and then save the results as high quality […]
Continue readingWorking With Type in Photoshop CS6
Excerpted from Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book. Copyright © 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Used with permission of Pearson Education and Adobe Press. In addition to the HTML version of the excerpt below, you can also download the excerpt as a PDF that retains the full design of the printed book. Typographic Design Lesson overview In […]
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