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If Black is Black? I want my Image back!!

8 November 2011

Work with Black backgrounds from Photoshop and Indesign. Image Background NOT black but dark grey? In the world of web where you’re designing for the screen black is black, zero amounts of Red Green and Blue (RGB). No problem. In the world of Print however, the four colour CMYK process is used, where K (key) [...]

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Shiny Black Photocopy Effect

13 September 2011

One of my most recent projects i did was to make a shiny multi-layered photocopied effect for a publishing directory. the client had the letters and pages of the alphabet photocopied as spreads again, again and again to create a velvet, shiny effect. From our point of view this was very challenging as we had [...]

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Take your Table of Content and PDF to the next level with Adobe® InDesign®

26 April 2011

At Printhouse Corporation, books and a company’s annual report are among the favourite things to design and print. Books and annual reports usually consists of a large volume of pages. Hence the large volume of pages, a table of contents is a normality for these kind of projects. The table of contents can also relate [...]

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Two-tone, hands-on

12 April 2011

In my last post, I demonstrated how effective and attractive can a two spot colour print be. Today, I want to share some behind-the-scenes of achieving similar result in a quick and easy tutorial. Choosing colours Let’s say our project is a tropical destination postcard and it will contain a photograph of a nice sandy [...]

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Exporting Indesign doc to html via flash

23 April 2010

Exporting an Indesign Document to HTML via Flash This article will show you how to export an indesign document to flash and open as an html web page with interactive buttons. First you create a web page in Indesign CS4 or later. Make sure that you split each web page onto different pages within indesign. [...]

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Creating an interactive page flip (SWF) from Indesign CS4

1 February 2010

Creating an interactive page flip web e-brochure using Indesign CS4 This blog is to show how you can export your indesign paged brochure/document into an interactive e-brochure to use on the web. Firstly you create your standard Indesign document with pages, then you click export. In the dialog box select “swf” as the save as file [...]

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How do I make a press ready PDF using InDesign CS2?

8 September 2009

Understanding the Export to PDF settings InDesign CS2 In this blog, I will assume that it is already understood what a press ready PDF is and what it should contain. If not, please see my previous post here: http://printquote.printhouse.co.uk/2009/08/what-is-a-press-ready-pdf/. When you are happy that your design document meets press ready standards, including all fonts, images [...]

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