Tools and guides

Using WordPress (Edublogs)

This class blog is created through Edublogs. This is basically Wordpress which is a blogging platform, but it is run…

There are two popular services for hosting PDFs online where they can be viewed and flipped through easily. One is…

Some of you have asked about using images sourced from the internet. As an artist and designer and creator of…

How to make an 8-page booklet out of a single piece of paper Cut and Fold Techniques for Promotional Materials:…

Here is the mounting material we talked about in class. You can use this material to mount your prints rather…

There are times when you need to add marks to a layout so you can trim the elements, but you…

So what ARE all of those blending modes in InDesign? Here's the Adobe Help page on the modes and their…

Here is the presentation on Gestalt that I have shown in class. Gestalt Presentation - John Roach

Courtesy of pone of your classmates Morgan Moore: "Knowing how smart Adobe is, i thought that there must be a…

The Place command is the primary method used to insert graphics into InDesign because it provides the highest level of…

Here's a nice handout created by Parsons faculty Wendy Letven. A good resource for the basics of InDesign. Indesign Basics…

Here's a 5min 32sec video tutorial on creating masks. In this case the example is placing a photo inside text.…