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10 Timesaving Tips for Book Design

10 Timesaving Tips for Book Design

Formatting books can be time-consuming and stressful activity, especially if the book contains 100+ pages and you have a short time frame. Luckily, Adobe InDesign has functions that make the whole process run smoother. Here we give you 10 useful tips that you could use in your book assignments. Tip 1: Text Continuation To ensure that text continues from one page to the next without hassle, click (with the cursor selected) on the red cross at the edge of the text box . Then cl

Skin retouching with frequency separation

Skin retouching with frequency separation

So, last time I did a quite basic skin retouching tutorial with the Spot Healing Brush and the Patch tool. That’s mostly for when your model has only very slight blemishes, you can check it out here if you missed it Quick skin retouching ! Now I’m going to show you the Frequency Separation technique. This will be very useful if you want to smooth out uneven skin tone and blemishes without compromising on pore texture. It’s a bit more advanced but once you get the hang of it,

Placing Text Behind An Image

Placing Text Behind An Image

When combining text and images together, it's best to be simple yet clever. Knowing how place text behind an image will make your designs look a lot more impressive. This tutorial looks a typical beermat or pub sign design... First, you need to type and format the text which will later be manipulated, using the "type tool" and the "character" settings. Open your image, adjust it into the desired position and arrange it lower than the text layer - to see what text it may cover

Creating Cut outlines on Illustrator

Creating Cut outlines on Illustrator

Here is a very useful method of adding singular cut outlines for complicated shapes, specifically used in sticker-creating scenerios... Before you start manipulating your image, copy the photographic layer by dragging it into the "create new layer" icon. Select the copy layer. Click on the drop-down menu of the "Image Trace" tab. Then select the "Silhouettes" option. Next, press the "Expand" tab, which will make the image more editable. Change the outline/fill settings on the

Create beautiful wrapping paper in Adobe Illustrator

Create beautiful wrapping paper in Adobe Illustrator

Patterns? The’re cool, beautiful and really useful! Have you always wondered how they are made though? Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for this and provides amazing help with arranging, multiplying and duplicating your design elements for some fantastic results in no time. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a personalized pattern for some great looking wrapping paper ! So here you have a simple example of a summer themed wrapping paper. Being inspired by the tut

Perfect binding for students

Perfect binding for students

So, you’re doing a creative course and you have to present a portfolio or a publication in the form of a perfect bound book but maybe you’re not quite clear on all the details. That’s ok we can help! Here are some facts about how you need to set up your file and how we print it 1. First off you will need at least 3mm of bleed around every edge of your document. Bleed is an extension of your artwork, not white, around your document. If you end up with white instead of artwork

Adding bleed to InDesign documents

Adding bleed to InDesign documents

If an image or colour runs off a page in any direction it’s called bleed. We need bleed on a document so that when the guillotine blade cuts the print, it cuts through the excess image and leaves no white edges. We suggest a minimum of 2mm extra on each edge, but you can add more if you like, too much isn’t a problem but no bleed gives everyone a headache. Please see our ‘how to create a print .pdf with bleed’ document for further information, it’s not exactly bedside reading

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