Adobe InDesign – Applying a Baseline Grid

Posted on February 7, 2018February 14, 2018 by Mark

How to add a Baseline Grid in Adobe InDesign Baseline Grids in Adobe InDesign enable you to align the bottom of each line of text perfectly. When you have two text columns next to each other its very easy to have the bottom lines not parallel which can make your artwork look messy. You can align your text lines to a baseline grid at any time but its important to amend the baseline grid measurements to match your Adobe InDesign text line measurements. To align your text to a baseline grid firstly you need to open your Adobe InDesign paragraph panel by going to Window > Type & Table...

What are Photoshop Smart Layers?

Posted on January 30, 2018February 14, 2018 by Mark

Adobe Photoshop has the ability for you to use ‘Smart Layers’ essentially a Smart Layer will remember the maximum quality of your Adobe Photoshop layer. For example you may place an image in to your Photoshop document and it is A5 size on an A4 canvas, if you reduce the size of this layer down to 25% of its size and commit to the transformation Adobe Photoshop completely forgets all of the information of when the layer was A5 size. So if we make the layer bigger again the layer will become pixelated and very poor quality. Adobe Photoshop Smart Layers can also be layers that have Vector ...

Adobe InDesign – Using Text Wrap

Posted on January 18, 2018January 30, 2018 by Mark

Adobe InDesign – Using Text Wrap When placing images and graphics in to Adobe InDesign you have probably noticed that you get a stacking order, essentially there is something at the top and something at the bottom and all other objects in between. In Adobe InDesign you can control this stacking order very easily by selecting the frames and then right clicking and choosing to send that particular frame to the front or send it to the back and getting all your Adobe InDesign frames in the order that you require. However there may be times when in your Adobe InDesign layout you want the fram...

Adobe Illustrator – Using the symbol sprayer.

Posted on January 10, 2018October 14, 2021 by Mark

The Symbol sprayer in Adobe Illustrator is a great way to repeat instances of your artwork multiple times quickly and efficiently. In this example Im going to use a snowflake vector that I created using the pathfinder but the same technique can be applied to any artwork that you have created in Adobe Illustrator. document.getElementById("thinkific-product-embed") || document.write('');50% OFF WITH CODE 'CSBLOG' To use the symbol sprayer in Adobe Illustrator you need to select a symbol in the symbol panel. Any symbol can be used and if you wish to use your own Illustra...

Adobe Illustrator – Perspective grids explained

Posted on December 21, 2017October 15, 2021 by Mark

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Since the CS5 version of Adobe Illustrator, the Adobe team incorporated a new tool known as the Perspective Grid, this tool allows you to easily create artwork in different perspectives, essentially when you start creating vectors on your Adobe Illustrator Artboard they will stick to the perspective planes, it is really good at showing items disappearing in to the background. document.getElementById("thinkific-product-embed") || document.write('');50% OFF WITH CODE 'CSBLOG' With the perspective grid tool in Adobe Illustrator we have three vanishing point perspectives an...

How To Use RFID In Marketing

Posted on December 8, 2017November 29, 2021 by Mark

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a wireless system composed of two elements: readers and tags. Tags communicate their identity to readers, while a reader has antennas that produce radio waves and receive signals from the tag. Tags can accept a wide range of information that’s why they can be helpful when it comes to your storage. Reader systems can either be carried so they can be handy or attached to a post in your building to emit and receive signals quickly. For business owners, the RFID is used with remote scanners to read tags on each product, allowing them to record informat...

Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 Whats new?

Posted on November 21, 2017July 26, 2018 by Mark

Over the last week I have already written a lot about the new features in Adobe CC 2018 upgrade for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign, this week I’m going to have a look at what I think are the best features of the Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 upgrade. As with all the other CC 2018 upgrades Adobe have promised us an overall performance upgrade to Adobe Photoshop, file opening times and general programme opening times have all noticeably improved. var uri = 'https://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(img)g(22838624)a(3049974)' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11); document.write('...

InDesign CC 2018 Paragraph Borders

Posted on November 10, 2017July 26, 2018 by Mark

Paragraph Borders in Adobe InDesign CC 2018 When Adobe released its InDesign CC 2015 edition they introduced a great new feature which was giving us the option to add coloured shading behind a paragraph, this was a really neat way to add colour behind your text without having to colour the entirety of your InDesign text frame and also not having to create additional InDesign frames making the layout messy and difficult to deal with. var uri = 'https://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(img)g(22838624)a(3049974)' + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11); document.write(''); Now Ado...

How to add page numbers in Adobe InDesign

Posted on November 8, 2017October 15, 2021 by Mark

With all multi page documents that we produce in Adobe InDesign there is a very good chance that you will want to add some page numbers to each page and you are not going to want to add these manually one at a time! Fortunately in Adobe InDesign we can quickly and easily add them automatically on every page using our master pages to control them. document.getElementById("thinkific-product-embed") || document.write('');50% OFF WITH CODE 'CSBLOG' Go to your master page Firstly we are going to open our pages panel in Adobe InDesign and double click on the 'A' ma...

Adobe InDesign – Managing long documents

Posted on November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 by Mark

Adobe InDesign Long Documents When creating longer documents in Adobe InDesign there are a few tips and tricks that I would recommend to help with your workflow, I would say these are for the more advanced Adobe InDesign user who is already familiar with the workings of Adobe InDesign. Adobe Indesign - Setting up the workspace When creating a long document in Adobe InDesign its a good idea to set up and save a custom workspace. Starting with the ‘Book’ workspace in Adobe InDesign you can open up and add the following panels then save them as your own Adobe InDesign workspace preset: ...