Cuded r/earthporn on Imgur Formatting Typography and the Use of Styles in Adobe InDesign After working for a couple agencies as an Art Director, I noticed many entry level designers and old pros alike still use InDesign very inefficiently when it comes to typography and formatting. This tutorial will cover the formatting of type within Adobe Indesign using their wonderful paragraph and character styles feature. This tutorial assumes you already know some of the basics of InDesign, but I will cover some of the basics quickly for new users. The final styles we will be working with throughout this tutorial are shown below. Create a new one page document with half inch margins to begin with. You should now have a 8.5 inch by 11 inch document with half inch margins, giving you a 7.5 inch by 10 inch live area to work with. Using the Type Tool, lets create a 7.5 inch by 10 inch type box. You have two options when it comes to creating a type box. Or you can click and drag enough to create a mini type box and use the size and location settings to make it fit perfectly. Thats better.
NOTCOT.ORG Color Wheel Pro: Color Meaning Red Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure. Red brings text and images to the foreground. Light red represents joy, sexuality, passion, sensitivity, and love. Orange Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Orange has very high visibility, so you can use it to catch attention and highlight the most important elements of your design. Dark orange can mean deceit and distrust. Yellow Yellow is the color of sunshine. Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. Use yellow to evoke pleasant, cheerful feelings. Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy. Green Blue
16,306 free fonts for Windows and Mac Matte Painting | Concept Art | Illustration site of Frederic St-Arnaud - starno.net - homepage Unique Character Design Tips by thundercake on deviantART 25 Creative and Challenging Vector Poster Design Tutorials Jump into this roundup of some of the most creative and challenging vector poster design tutorials on the web. There is a large assortment of styles and approaches here to review, from spacey psychedelic poster design, to geometrically influenced poster design, to robotic stomping power, to retro aesthetics and more. Check out these inspiring poster design tutorials. Blend and Mask Yourself a Great Poster Veerle Pieters shows us how to create a strong geometric central poster design, which utilizes flowing blends, masked shapes, and subtle gradients, to create a sophisticated final work. She covers each step of creating this work in detail and uses a quick workflow that uses tools like Smart Guides to speed things up. The Making of 3 – A Limited Edition Poster Design To celebrate the third birthday of Chris Spooner's blog Spoon Graphics, he created a limited edition poster design. Making of "Robot Earth 3009" Typographic Illustration Poster Illustration: Go Forth & Create!
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