Print Asset Mgmt./Workflow How-Tos

HerGeekness Says: Convert Any File Part II

In case of file-conversion emergency, start with a PDF!

QuarkXPress Tips: Graphically Speaking

Good design does not live by text alone. To master QuarkXPress, add these image-oriented tricks to your workflow.

InDesign Transparency: No Longer the Forbidden Fruit

With this advice, you can reap the rewards of transparency and never hear those dreaded words, "It won't print!"

Seven Tips for a Perfect Printed Piece

Straight from the pros at the bindery, this advice will help ensure glitch-free print jobs.

Mastering Master Pages

Make your life easier with QuarkXPress's automatic page numbering.

QuarkXPress How-To: Use Layers to Corral Overlapping Items

Say you want to edit text in a box that's obscured behind other boxes in a busy layout. You keep clicking on the wrong boxes, accidentally moving items, and generally making a mess. Here's how to fix that problem forever.

Design How-To: Solve Color Dilemmas

No matter what you're creating -- a print piece, a Web site, an illustration -- the element with the greatest effect on your audience is color. How do you choose the right one, or even more daunting, the best mix?

Photoshop How-to: Total Color Tranformation

When clients supply photos for Web sites or print materials, you're never sure what you're going to get. If the images are less-than-ideal but you must use them, Photoshop can help. This tutorial walks you through the process of completely altering colors. The end result would be a positive addition to any project.

Acrobat How-To: Previewing Color Separations Onscreen

This tutorial shows you how to "soft-proof" your document before you send it off to your printer. Not only will you catch costly errors, but your neighborhood prepress professional will love you for making this effort.

Out of Gamut: Calibrating Camera Raw in Photoshop CS

Pro photographers are digging into Photoshop CS, which includes powerful features for processing raw image data from digital cameras, thanks to its Camera Raw plug-in. Now Bruce Fraser digs deeper to devise a way to customize Camera Raw's color for digital cameras.

Photoshop How-To: Creating Color-Consistent Panoramas with Russell Brown

Stitching together multiple images into one seamless panorama is easier than ever, thanks to features such as PhotoMerge in Photoshop CS. But when lighting conditions vary from one frame to the next, it can be tricky to make those merged photos look like they belong to the same scene. Photoshop guru Russell Brown shows you what to do.

Illustrator CS How-to: Design a Business Card in 15 Minutes

Start the new year with a bang by creating a new business card in Adobe Illustrator CS. Using basic templates and tools, you can design a great-looking card in no time. Here's how.

Color Management How-To: Understanding Computer Color

Learning how to match the color you see on screen with that in your printed output is critical information for any digital artist or photographer. But first you need to understand how color works both on computer display and on paper. Start with this chapter from "Real World Color Management."

Design How-To: Using the Color Wheel to Find the Right Match

Your choice of color palette can change the intent and impact of an image. The folks at the design magazine "Before & After" show you how to find the perfect colors to complement your photos and create harmonious designs.

Bit by Bit: Why Your Photoshop Color Separations Are Wrong -- and How to Fix Them

For many years now, Adobe Photoshop has been capable of producing accurate color separations. The question is: accurate for what? Many Photoshop users produce color separations using the wrong settings. Brian P. Lawler says it's time to SWOP out one profile for another.

Photoshop How-To: Making Great Prints

Great images need great printing techniques, and that means dipping your toes into the sometimes murky waters of color management and printer profiling. Here, from a book subtitled "Mastering the Digital Image," are two methods for getting great looking prints from Photoshop.