and the months go on..

Flyer-Beispiele

Såhär enkelt kan du exportera din indesign-trycksak som blädder-swf för publicering på nätet!

Tänk bara på följande:

• RGB-färgspace (indesign varnar dig annars)
• Kontraster anpassat för skärmläsning
• Typsnitt anpassat för skärmläsning
• Upplösningen är låg på swf-en, jobba lågupplöst om du inte skall trycka också.
• Använd färger som funkar på skärm (inte grön text på rött t.ex.)
• Rätt typsnittsstorlek(grad) för skärmläsning
• testa, testa, testa…

In a quest for continuous improvement, we’re having a think about our study guides. Most authors have their documents online for students, be it PDFs (mostly) or word docs.. what the students do with those documents, I’m not entirely sure, and as far as I know, there’s no stats or research that might answer that question.

Even the stats for the eStudyGuide pages (discussed in earlier post – taking the xml from indesign to make a web front end for the study guides) don’t indicate any trend, the stats only show that people are looking at the front end, from where, for how long etc. Actually, there’s a possible answer there, I wonder if there’s any server stats on the PDFs, would the stats indicate how long the document is open in the browser, or would the stats just record the hit? I’ll have to find out. There’s got to be some data we can look at to know more about usage.

In the mean time, tell me what you would do with a PDF study guide if you were studying:

So, anyway, back to the point of this, what is really the best way to serve up the documents online? If students are indeed reading on screen, perhaps we should put some time into looking at a better way to present it all, Adobe Digital Editions for instance might be a winner. Like Acrobat Reader, its a free program, but it’s for managing and viewing eBooks. Students would be able to manage and read all their study guides on their computer (making them more convenient, mobile, and so on), plus, the epub format would be easy as to spit out of InDesign (what our study guides are created in).

Introducing a new form of education tool. This will be a series of helpful tips for software / design etc that I’ll continue until I get the correct legal documents or bribe needed to stop  it…
I am starting off with an easy one…

Pen Tool [p] and Fignütts : no#1 : DYI Illustrator Patterns Rated R (for Really mature designers over the age of 18 will hate this) 

What we are accomplishing: Creating your own custom stroke, so as to fit your needs.

Creating a custom stroke is quite simple, it’s just not very obvious.  First, you will need to open your strokes palette.  If you do not have it open, you can go to Window > Stroke to open it.  Once here, you should click on the flyout menu and select Stroke Styles.  This will bring up a new dialog box that contains the stroke styles you currently have.  Clicking on New will bring up another dialog box where you can change settings to create your new stroke style.  Just change the name and modify the settings to fit your preference.  Voila!  You have successfully created a new stroke style.

I am in a yoga class and it keeps upgrading to pilates without telling me so.  Why is it that when you are not very good at something you end up being overlooked in a class of 30? The yoga teacher walks around umming and ahhing and you can vaguely hear her positive comments about people way off into the distance but when she comes to you, nothing – a quick sidestep and a puzzled look at your “cow face pose”, yes that is a name of an actual pose.

I am talking about InDesign – I feel like I should let out a small/large scream after spending another afternoon in the maglab attempting to improve at this piece of software.

But it is infuriating, I feel completely inadequate and I do not look like this while I do it.

Any tips?

Hi! I found a quite interesting podcast focused on Adobe software.

Adding the site link to my blogroll.

http://appclinic.com/

InDesign CS4 introduces some new ways of applying character styles, including Nested Line Styles, and GREP Styles.  When multiple character styles are applied to the same text, InDesign prioritizes the styles according to this scheme.

1. Manually formatted text
2. Manually applied Character Style
3. GREP Style
4. Nested Style
5. Nested Line Style
6. Text attribute from Paragraph Style

Una de las ventajas de CS4 es la integración entre Photoshop, Illustrator e InDesign. En este episodio colocamos una ilustración vectoral (documento Illustrator) con capas en InDesign y creamos un documento PDF para mandar a la imprenta.

-Joshua

http://tutordigital.net

Photoshop & Illustrator

• Paragraph Panel > Roman Hanging Punctuation

InDesign

• Story Panel > Optical Character Alignment
• Or, just use Indent To Here character

TSTC Publishing interns include six Texas State Technical College Students for the fall semester. They include:

Margarita Seely has been an advertising intern for TSTC since 2007 and will graduate with her associate’s degree in advertising in the spring of 2010. She and her husband, TSTC Biomedical Engineering Professor Garrett Seely, have two children, Gavin and Isabella. Margarita said in ten years, “ I plan to still be married and working. My kids will be twenty!” Margarita is a busy mom and wife; she enjoys supporting her kids, “being there for them, cheering them on,” she said.

James Haug is an Advertising, Design and Print Technology (ADP) student who commutes from Temple. Being an artist and a TSTC student runs in the family for James. His mother earned a degree from TSTC in commercial art. “I have been an artist since I was a little kid. I stole my mom’s sketchbook and started drawing,” James said. During his free time, James sketches tattoo designs and travels to Austin for the live music scene.

Jordan Long is a Waco native and an ADP student. As an intern, Jordan has created a poster and a flier for the MCC cookbook and a brochure about Waco sculptures for the Waco Cultural Arts Fest. Jordan said he enjoys the creative freedom the ADP field offers. “As a kid, I was always the doodler in class, said Jordan. In the future, Jordan would like to stay in design and advertising, possibly doing freelance work or working for himself. For now, he stays busy with his three kids and enjoys lifting weights.

George Harry Miller V is from Colony, Texas. Working at TSTC, George enjoys expressing creativity through assigned projects, such as the MCC cookbook cover, illustration works and other projects. When George isn’t working, he is on the soccer field practicing martial arts. “These activities help relieve stress,” George says. After graduation, George plans to move to the Dallas area and work in a graphic design firm.

Heather Lorraine Johnson is from Gatesville, Texas. An ADP student, Heather enjoys the creativity she gets to use in adverstising. In the future, Heathers plans to work in design packaging. “I’m not leaving Texas,” she said. Heather said in Texas, she is living in her element. In her free time, Heather enjoys playing the flute, watching TV and spending time with her two-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Heather will graduate from TSTC in December 2010.

Victoria Luz Ricoy is a second year double-major ADP and digital media student from Karnack, Texas. As an intern, Victoria designs book covers, interior page layouts for cookbooks and just completed a TSTC Publishing Christmas card. Victoria works mostly with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. In her free time, Victoria works at Bealls and takes full advantage of her employee discount. Victoria is looking forward to a bright future in the creative design aspect of advertising, and is considering living in Austin or San Antonio.

Alyssa and Kristin

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When placing multiple images, InDesign CS4 introduces  the Image Grid feature, which places multiple images at once into a grid.

• hold down cmd+shift to activate.
• Use the arrow keys to change the number of rows and columns.
• Use shift+arrow keys to change the space between the frames!

Idag var en rikigt bra dag på Medieinstitutet. Förmiddagen ägnades åt Webbcopy där vi fick uppgiften att skriva en webbcopy för att introducera Scoretts höst/vintermode. Webbcopyn ska visa upp en potentiell kampanjsida. Vad roligt att äntligen få ett grupparbete att bita i med både kul textskrivande och layout pillande i InDesign. En skogalning borde inte ha så svårt att sätta print på varför någon ska köpa skor. Pricken över i-et var att eftermiddagens Dreamweaver föreläsning byttes ut mot lite nyttig HTML lära. Bra dag med mycket information som snurrar runt i huvudet.

Dumping Preferences in Adobe Creative Suite.

• On Mac: CMD+Option+Control+Shift+Double Click on App icon to launch (not shortcut)
• On PC: Ctrl+Alt+Shift as program is launching