Claudia McCue

Claudia McCue

About

Claudia McCue is the author of the book Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Cloud, and the presenter for a number of print-related LinkedIn Learning courses, including “Learning Print Production,” “InDesign for the In-House Designer,” and “Acrobat Pro DC Essentials.” After more than 30 years in real-world print production, and 20 years of software training, she’s now retired, but still occasionally writes about printing topics.

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The InDesign Conference 2025
December 9–12An Online Event

Available for purchase through March 12, 2026. On-demand access ends December 12, 2026. The essential how-to event for creative professionals who rely on Adobe InDesign.

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The Design + Accessibility Summit 2025
September 16–19An Online Event

Available for purchase through December 19. On-demand access ends September 19, 2026. Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at…

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CreativePro Week 2025
June 2–6Now Available On Demand

Available for purchase through September 6. On-demand access ends June 6, 2026. CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference to master the tools of…

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Archived
The Design + Accessibility Summit 2024
October 8–10From the Archives

Learn how to design accessible documents with InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint, and more at our four-day online event on October 8–11, 2024.

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Archived
Design + AI Summit 2024
December 9–10Archived Event

Join us online November 13–14, 2024 for The Design + AI Summit to learn how to thrive with AI tools.

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Archived
The Design + Marketing Summit 2024
November 18–19Now Available On Demand

?? Registration ends February 17, 2025. The essential HOW-TO event to master design and production techniques for social media, email, print, and more. Join us…

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What Your Printer Wishes You Knew

Your design is great! Your client loves it! But will it print as expected?

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Fixing CMYK Images Over Your Ink Limit with Photoshop

Learn how to lower total ink in an image and still get the best results for your output conditions.

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InQuestion: Matching Photoshop Colors, Combining Documents, Using Smart Guides

Learn how to troubleshoot and solve common problems in InDesign

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Regarding Transparency

The essential guide to getting the best results with blending, opacity, and effects in InDesign

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Digital Delight: Beyond CMYK

Spot colors aren’t just for offset presses anymore.

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Working With Spot Colors

Claudia McCue’s guide to everything you need to know about designing and printing with spot color inks.

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Edible Printing

Learn a whole new meaning of tasteful design.

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Why You Should Import RGB Images Into InDesign and Convert to CMYK On Export

Yes, we know you probably learned to convert images to CMYK in Photoshop before placing them in InDesign. And yes, we know that you’ve been doing this since 1989 with PageMaker 2. But you know what? This is the 21st century now and it’s time to wake up, smell the coffee, and change your ways for […]

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CMYK vs. RGB

Excerpted from Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Cloud by Claudia McCue. Copyright © 2014. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. * * * Since the dawn of desktop publishing, it’s been unquestioned that Thou Shalt Convert to CMYK. Those who submitted RGB files were considered uninformed, even uncivilized. The rules are […]

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How to Choose the Right Image File Format for Print

Excerpted from Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Cloud by Claudia McCue. Copyright © 2014. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. * * * Appropriate Image Formats for Print How you should save your raster images is governed largely by how you intend to use them. Often, you will be placing images […]

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