For years software developers have hidden easter eggs within their programs as a way of having a bit of fun. These can be anything from a hidden message or joke through to a full blown game hidden inside the program. It provides a bit of extra entertainment for people using the software, and to be […]
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No More Low Res RGBs! Setting up a simple Preflight in InDesign CC Today I’m going to show you how to setup a Preflight Profile in InDesign to catch any low resolution and/or RGB images. If you’ve spent any time preparing InDesign documents for print you’ll know that one the easiest ways to screw-up the […]
Masters within InDesign are very useful – they provide a common background for whichever page(s) you are working with. But here are some not so well known/used tips regarding masters and pages. A MASTER CAN HAVE A MASTER Say you want a master for Chapter 1 – usually a header and footer. But the footer […]
Here’s a quick tip for more accurate rendering of blacks in Illustrator and InDesign. Under the Preferences menu you’ll find a tab for Appearance of Black. The screenshot here is from Illustrator but the settings are the same in InDesign. There are two settings, one for On Screen and one for Printing/Exporting. By default these […]
One question I am sometimes asked is “once you have created a frame in InDesign, can you change the frame shape without recreating it from scratch”. The good news is there are a number of ways to change frame shapes in InDesign once you have created them, without having to go through the whole creation […]
An SEO Audit is an independent and unbiased review of your website from a search engine optimisation perspective. During an SEO Audit the auditor will run a wide range of seo checks on your site and use a variety of proven seo tools, to ensure that your site is continuing to tick all the right […]
Using reflect and join in Illustrator can be a great way to create symetrical artwork, so in this post we are going to take a look at how you can do this. In this instance we are going to make a clock and I am going to start off by making a nice symmetrical hand […]
When you install Creative Cloud you will notice a couple of extra folders appear on the desktop with the flypaper textures in there. These are some sample textures that come with Photoshop, and I thought it would be nice to look at a couple of ways you could use these textures together with blend modes […]