InDesign is the undisputed champ when it comes to Typography control in a page layout application. Special Guest Mike McHugh. Mike has his own "Creative Sweet" podcast which he'll tell you about at the end of this episode. Mike will concentrate on ways to make your type fit perfectly in just about any given situation.
Photoshop can do many things, most never think to use it to "draw" with. Well, may Bert Monroy thinks about that everyday. However, for the rest of us it's not something that comes to mind usually. Special Guest Chita Hunter takes us through an easy method to get perfect dashed lines.
In this episode Special Guest Lynn Grillo from Adobe will show us how to create and use GoLive page templates. Templates in GoLive allow you to define the page design and placement of your objects. By using Templates if you ever decide to update/change the design of your site, all you have to do is modify the Template page that your site pages are based on. Bam, your site is now updated! Lynn is the GoLive Goddess of the World!
In this BONUS Episode we will take a look at the NEW Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional! Adobe also released a corresponding update to the Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3. This new version of Acrobat allows more collaboration and document sharing. This also includes the debut of Acrobat Connect!
Adobe Illustrator is one of the best drawing tools on the planet. So naturally you're going to need to align objects from time to time. One of the ways that we use to keep objects lined up is to use a visual guide so that we can see at a glance if something is lined up or not. In this episode we'll also see how to turn any path into a guide as well as putting guides on layers. Then we'll kick it up a notch and learn how to use Smart Guides.
Now that you know how easy it is to make PDFs from your Creative Suite products, we'll learn how to set them up so that they can be digitally signed. In this episode you'll see how to set up a PDF to accept a digital signature. You all also see how to create your own digital signature for signing and a strategy to work with your clients so that you know who is signing those documents?
Now with the Bridge you can preview and select images that you want to publish to the web. In this episode I'll show you how to take advantage of Photoshop's latest web galleries and to get the exact look and feel that you want. I'll also show you how to protect your images on the web so that are not easily copied.
We often here about how well InDesign works with Photoshop. In this episode I'll show you how to work with Illustrator files in InDesign. Take advantage of the vector similarities by not only being able to place native Illustrator files, but also copy and paste Illustrator vectors so that you can use them as frames in InDesign.
The Clone Stamp Tool has been a long time favorite for most Photoshop users. However, trying to remove something that is on an angle or a different perspective is often challenging. Using the Vanishing Point feature you can remove images and add images with ease. In this episode I'll show you how.
For years users have relied on tables to lay out there pages. In the modern world of web layout it's all about CSS. In this episode you'll see how to take advantage of GoLive's CSS Objects. You can make liquid pages that allow the site visitors with wider displays to control their viewing and reading experience.
Illustrator CS2 has a great tracing feature called Live Trace. However, sometimes you may want to trace something have a more artistic effect. Will Illustrator's Pen Tool and the Gradient Mesh feature you'll be able to create the exact look and feel that you want.
We've taken a look at creating PDFs in several of these episodes. Now we'll learn how to secure them so that we can safely send out PDFs to clients for review and be assured that they can only access the content the way we want them to. Turn off things like printing and content extraction. Password protect your PDFs so that they can't even be opened without a password.
If you have the Adobe Creative Suite, you not only have the Bridge, you have a component of the Bridge called the Bridge Center. The Bridge Center is the hub of the Creative Suite and allows you to quickly access recently used files and folders. It also allows you to read your RSS feeds, sync your color management settings and create Version Cue projects.
Adobe InDesign can create PDFs natively. In this episode we'll see a rarely used feature that allows us to create rollover effects that work beautifully in PDF files. Your PDF files will be interactive. InDesign allows us to create buttons and using the States palette we can create rollover effects.
Whether you're using a scanner or a digital camera chances are you've had images that required color corrections. In this episode you see how to color correct an image like a pro. We'll use Curves, Match Color and Adjustment Layers to make our adjustments.
We've talked about Smart Objects in GoLive in the past. However, in this episode well see how to create a Photoshop Smart Object that has text layers that can be altered directly in GoLive. This way you can change the text on your graphics without having to return to Photoshop.
Often times people think that Photoshop is the only tool to create reflections in photos and product shots. However, can pretty easily take advantage of the features in Illustrator CS2 to create very realistic reflections.
You can select images in the Bridge and send them to Photoshop to make a presentation slideshow. In this episode you'll see how to add some polish to those presentations as well as taking advantage of Acrobat specific transitions and settings. You'll also see how to tweak the settings to do automatic or manual slideshows.
In this episode we'll take an in-depth look at how to take advantage of Adobe Stock Photos. You'll also see how to search for a Photographer in your area. Well search for stock photography, download comp images and then place those comps into InDesign. You'll see how to do a Pre-flight in InDesign to show you which images are comps and still need to be purchased.
This isn't your grandfather's type on a path. InDesign has some hidden special effects that will make your type on a path much more compelling. Granted Type on a Path is not a new concept and has been around in Illustrator for years. However, no other application out there can handle Type on a Path as well as InDesign CS2. Don't beleive me? Watch this episode then.
This episode takes a look at how to create layers in Photoshop CS2 that build up to your signature. Then we'll pop over to Adobe ImageReady to put the finishing touches on animating that signature so that it can be used on the web or in your email application.
Every now and then you may need to use HTML tags outside of your HTML editor. Posting things for sale on eBay is a perfect example. In this episode you'll see how you can use GoLive CS2 to generate all the HTML to make your descriptions pop. After all a good description may be just enough to push someone to bid on your item over the other guy's.
Using a technique from my colleague Colin Smith at Adobe we'll see how to create one business card on the page and then using the Transform Effects we'll replicate the card multiple times up. This is a really slick way to make something once and have it repeated on the page as often as you like. The beauty of it is that you can still make changes to the original and have those changes replicate throughout the page. You can even save it as a Graphic Style to be used over and over again.
The introduction of transparency has been quite controversial in print production over the past few years. The fact is that for most transparency in Adobe files works just fine. However, those of us out there with older RIPs may have issues printing transparency. In this episode you'll see how to flatten transparency in your PDF files before you ever hit the Print command.
I've already shown you in previous episodes how to take advantage of Keywords and other metadata to quickly find your images. In this episode we'll take a look at how to create your search criteria once and use it over and over again with dynamic Collections. The Bridge is about to get a whole lot smarter in helping you find exactly what you're looking for.
Although Adobe InDesign CS2 is an outstanding print application, it can also do a great job of creating interactive content for PDF or the web. The key to creating an interactive document lies your ability to create Hyperlinks. In this episode well see how to create Hyperlinks and URLs from scratch. Then we'll export the InDesign document to PDF to take it for a spin.
You took a great shot with your digital camera. However, how do you make it look like it was taken by a pro? It's all about the "presentation." in this episode you'll see how to create a "Gallery Print." We'll even record the steps as an action so that you can instantly transform any of your shots into Gallery Prints.
OK, this one is for the Mac users out there with a dotMac account or those windows users out there that are creating websites for clients who plan to host them on Apple's .Mac service. In this episode you'll see how to setup Adobe GoLive CS2 to be able to publish directly to a .Mac account using WebDAV.
Placing images inside text is nothing new. However, the old way involved converting the text to outlines first and thereby making the text uneditable. In this episode you'll learn how to fill your text with an image while maintaining complete edit-ability of the text. Illustrator CS2 is the answer.
OCR is usually a bad word to most computer users. However, in Acrobat it's the next best thing to sliced bread. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional not only employs Optical Character Recognition for your text, but it does Page Recognition to preserve the geometry of your pages. Everything stays in place and your paper documents become searchable, reusable text!
