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Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate

Marcel is more than just a beautiful script typeface. It is the product of a fantastic journey undertaken by designer and typography geek Carolyn Porter to learn the fate of Marcel Heuzé, a Frenchman conscripted into labor during World War II, whose handwritten letters provided source material for the font. This international search led to Porter’s […]

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Tip of the Week: Using More Than One Object Style to Format an Object

This InDesign tip on using more than one object style to format an object was sent to Tip of the Week email subscribers on January 25, 2018. Sign up now and every week you’ll get a new tip, keyboard shortcut, and roundups of new articles, plus exclusive deals sent right to your Inbox! Just scroll down to the bottom […]

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Third Party Solutions for Data Publishing

Yes, InDesign can be used for creating data-driven publications, such as catalogs, advertising circulars, directories, and more. But that doesn’t mean that you can do it with only InDesign. InDesign’s built-in Data Merge feature is nice, but it is very limited. So when it comes to complicated data publishing, you often need to rely on a […]

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Using the Select Subject Feature in Photoshop

Any experienced Photoshop artist knows that most of the grunt work involved in composting images lies in creating cutouts of the components you want to use. For years the only solution was painstakingly tracing an outline with the Pen Tool, with QuickMask as an alternative that allows you to paint selections. Photoshop CS3 introduced the […]

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