CS5: Type on the Grid

For many students and educators, the Bauhaus has become a symbolic point of entry to art and design education. ... here you learn about the GRID, by Michael Mandiberg, and Xtine Burrough August 12, 2010

CS5: Multiple Graphics in a Grid of Frames

The Adobe Creative Team shows you how to can place all your photos and arrange them in a grid at the same time -- without placing images individually! August 11, 2010

InDesign CS5: Creating Pages

In this excerpt from Real World Adobe InDesign CS5, Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner and Bob Bringhurst illustrate how to create multiple page sizes in the same document -- a feature that people have been requesting for years. August 10, 2010

InDesign: Interactive Documents

Olav Martin Kvern and David Blatner explain InDesign's features for the "rich media" producer. Many of these tools don't produce any visible effect on your InDesign pages, but change the behavior of PDF or Flash SWF files that you export. August 5, 2010

Adobe CS5 with the big boys

ARE YOU READY TO LEARN WITH THE BIG BOYS? If not, you can continue to our next CS5 bookshelf. But if you are up to time-tested and proven educational learning, this is your spot -- folks, this is the major league and once you dig in here - you're playing with the big boys! July 30, 2010

Adobe CS5 Learning Center

Back to (Adobe CS5) School this month picks the best of the crop of desktop learning and education for the Adobe Creative Suite programs -- mainly Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign July 30, 2010

Unique import into InDesign, InCopy

For some time, desktop publishers have wrestled with the chore of importing content from one source into another. Back in the '90s, one of my seminars was "Repurposing Content" which taught how to build a FileMaker Pro database to do exactly this. April 15, 2010

Real World Print Production

Contrary to popular belief, print is not dead! With all the interest in online publishing, the good old medium of print is still alive and well. The problem is getting the color just right. Take some advice from Claudia McCue February 25, 2010

Preparing Raster Images

Whether you acquire an image from a scanner, a digital camera, a royalty-free CD, or a stock photography vendor, it's made out of pixels. Those pixels need to be near perfect in order for the final print to be perfect February 24, 2010

Graphic Inspector

Graphic Inspector checks entire folders of graphic files for potential problems according to specific workflow requirements - the most exhaustive info on multiple images and vector graphics, saving the time and hassle of checking them manually. January 24, 2010