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

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

Learn how to troubleshoot and solve common problems in InDesign

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

Spot colors aren’t just for offset presses anymore. In the early days of digital printing, we were limited to just CMYK inks. If we wanted to use spot colors, we had to settle for CMYK approximations.    Anything exotic, such as fluorescents or metallic effects, required putting the job on a more expensive offset press […]

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

Learn a whole new meaning of tasteful design.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]