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Graphic Design
- Easy Single-Sheet BookletThis favorite from the "Creative Layout" seminars shows you a neat little trick for making a complete 16-page book from a single sheet of paper!
- Postcard design that works It doesnt take a lot of time, money or effort to create, print and mail a postcard. But when done right, postcards can be enormously effective
- Creative Envelopes Someone asked how to mass-produce custom envelopes quickly by hand
- Publication Design Standards People always ask for design "standards" of some form or another.
Graphic Design
- Easy Single-Sheet BookletThis favorite from the "Creative Layout" seminars shows you a neat little trick for making a complete 16-page book from a single sheet of paper!
- Postcard design that works It doesnt take a lot of time, money or effort to create, print and mail a postcard. But when done right, postcards can be enormously effective
- Creative Envelopes Someone asked how to mass-produce custom envelopes quickly by hand
- Publication Design Standards People always ask for design "standards" of some form or another.
Designing Business
- Interview: Cynthia Baron, author of "Designing A Digital Portfolio" chats with DTG about building the portfolio that will get that job!
- Designless in SeattleGetting a job in the design field may not be as easy as you think. Seattle designer Melissa Mason goes for yet another job interview in pursuit of a big agency design job.
Graphics & Illustration
- Adobe Illustrator Page Set-up - working with pasteboard and page margins
- Tips for better Scanning - what to do to get the best result
- Getting Rid of White Backgrounds - Clipping Paths. The most frequent question we get is how to remove the white backgrounds of TIF files imported into PageMaker or Quark (An older article but still useful)
- (Find most of our Graphics articles in the Photoshop area of the site!)
- What's the best 3D program
- Getting better scan results
- Selecting the Right InkJet Papers
- Reader asks: How It Was Done? Jem stones
- Introduction to Digital Painting
- Drop Shadows in DTP Programs
- Bending Type with Vector Art
- Give it Depth: Trimetric Projection
- Illegal Colors by Sandee Cohen
- Trapping, Chokes & Spreads
- Building Background Patterns and "Filling Type"
- Visual Proofreading
- Die Cutting without Dies
- Designing for CREEP
- Easy Type Modification Tricks
- T/Maker EPS Clip Art Classics
- Really Great Food Clip Art
Other Favorites
- Interview: Katrin Eismann
- Feature: Publicity Resources
- eBooks ReferenceGuide
- ePublishingResource Guide
- What are eBooks Good For
- Getting Submissions for Presentations
- Publish EVERYTHING you write
- Howto Hire A Designer
- Graduates: Stand Out
- Tips for Graduates
- Website Usability Tools and Techniques
- What is an Information Broker?
- Over half of U.S. adults now online
- Promo Ideas: Wag The Dog
- Promo Ideas: Scratch some Success
- Promo: Make a Professional Press
- Promo:Cool Personalized Envelopes
- Promo: Slow Months
- 50-Billion Ads Not Served
- The Power of Macros
- Career in Graphic Arts
Table of Contents continues:
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