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Sites and links to aids for Desktop Publishers
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| http://www.adobe.com tryouts and tutorials for Illustrator, PageMaker, Photoshop and more http://www.quark.com tutorials, updates, extensions, tryouts and more for QuarkXPress http://www.macromedia.com the Freehand drawing program (among others) http://www.wacom.com Digital / Art tablets—my indispensible pain-free permanent mouse replacement http://www.scantips.com Indispensible scanning information—including help with that pesky resolution issue! Scroll down and start with Scanning 101 – The Basics. http://www.imaging-resource.com Subtitled Digital Cameras and Photography. Information about digital cameras, scanners and printers http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/readingeffectivenesstool/ The Clear Language and Design Reading Effectiveness Tool. Long name, great site! Answer a few simple questions to find out whether your target audience can read your publicaton. http://www.will-harris.com/esperfonto Esperfonto—how to choose an effective and appropriate typeface to get your message across. http://www.thepluginsite.com add-ons, tutorials and more for Photoshop http://user.fundy.net/morris/redirect.html?photoshop1.shtml offers links to printable double-sided PDF files listing the most commonly used shortcut keys, PC and Mac, versions 5-7. (Spend some time checking out the rest of his site.) Download the one you want, print the first page. Return the sheet of paper to your printer tray, putting it in upside down. Print page two (on the back of page one). Laminate and keep by keyboard/monitor for constant reference. Trevor's home page is http://user.fundy.net/morris/. http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/8zwd11/extended_ch.htm Extended Character Map for PC users. This freeware program gives you visible access to all the characters available in a given typeface. I highly recommend having this available. For instance: characters placed in a Word document using Insert > Symbol can display with unexpected results when the text is moved into a non-Microsoft program. This can be particularly problematic when placing text for layout (using PageMaker, QuarkXPress, InDesign). The Extended Character Map lets you see if a particular character is even available in a specific typeface. You can then select and place it using the appropriate ASCII values so it's recognized and displayed correctly in any program. http://www.lipsum.com/ Dummy text in any quantity, on demand! All the facts about "lorem ipsum" plus a nifty generator that gives you any amount of text you need. Choose paragraphs, words, bytes, or list format. Highlight the resultant text, copy and paste into your layout. Voilá—Instant dummy text! http://www.arraich.com./ps_intro.htm extensive Photoshop tutorials; great for beginners http://digicollage.com/etp/tool/ marvelous Photoshop 7 toolbox reference (w/ animation on how to use each tool) http://www.trapping.org/tips.html trapping: what, why and how http://www.ideabook.com/printers.htm How to find the right commerical printer http://www.losangelesprintingcompany.com/glossary.html Glossary of Printer Terms (white text on blue, un-alphabetized, but still worth at least one good read and a little note-taking) |
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