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Chalk One Up for Inspiration

Reading about the anonymous students—calling themselves Dangerdust—at Columbus College of Art & Design who have been sneaking in and creating motivational chalkboard art, I had so many questions. The first was, “They still use chalkboards?” I followed that up with, “How can I turn my talents into a renegade art?” Well, I certainly can’t make […]

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Making Long Shadows in InDesign

I was watching Justin Seeley’s recent video about making long shadows in Illustrator and I thought, “jeez, why would anyone use Illustrator?!” No, I’m just kidding! I love Illustrator. But I did think, “hey, let’s do it in InDesign!” Here’s how you can make long shadows in InDesign: Here’s what we’re starting with… just text […]

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How to Type “The Last Page Number in a Book”

You already know that InDesign has a “the last page number” text variable, right? To get that, you choose Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable > Last Page Number. And because it’s a variable, it automatically updates if the last page number of that document changes. Cool! But what if you want “the last […]

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Know Your Photoshop File Sizes

How can one Photoshop image grow and shrink dramatically during production, even without compression? It’s a question that comes up regularly. And the answer isn’t just academic, because understanding why could save you a lot of storage space on your hard drive or in the cloud. What’s the Document Size in the Image Size Dialog Box? […]

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Creating Sequential Numbers for Data Merge… with a script!

Readers familiar with my articles will be aware that I have made InDesign’s Data Merge feature do some useful and sometimes unusual things, but the majority of my day-to-day work using Data Merge is sequentially numbered stationery. The sequential numbers required for the stationery are typically prepared in a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel and […]

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