Review and help for design apps

We should all be familiar with these processes but often forget. If you need help, please ask me.

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Fontbook

Adding fonts: activating + deactivating, removing fonts Font collections (organizing fonts for specific projects)

Preview custom mode to test specific words in multiple fonts

Photoshop

adobe.com/photoshop/user-guide

Resolution (screen resolution vs. printing resolution)

Image mode: RGB, CMYK, Gray scale, Duotone Layers palette:

Adjustment layer: Levels or Curves • Masks,

Blending mode

Magic Wand, Crop, Clone Stamp tool

Saving images: PSD, TIFF, JPEG (how to keep transparency)

InDesign

adobe.com/indesign/user-guide

Character + Paragraph palette

Selecting and setting type

Tracking, kerning, leading

Paragraph alignment; left align, center, right

Create outlines (explain benefit when printing)

InDesign User Guide:

• • • • Make New Doc InDesign
      • InDesign Keyboard Shortcuts:
      • InDesign Page Layout
      • InDesign Multi page Doc Set Up
      • InDesign Change Doc Set Up
      • InDesign Page Numbering
      • InDesign Style Sheet Resources
      • InDesign Apply Style Sheet
      • InDesign Style Sheet Panel
      • Set Existing Text to Style Sheet

Illustrator

adobe.com/illustrator/user-guide

Pathfinder: modifying + combining simple shapes

Pen tool: drawing free-form shapes, adding subtracting points Color, Swatches, Stroke, Effects palette

stroke/fill: cmyk vs. rgb color • stroke width

blending modes

Align palette

Layers + Pages palette

Adding + subtracting, facing versus non-facing pages Importing/placing images from Photoshop

File linking versus embedding

Selection, Scale, Rotate, Free Transform tools Guides, document grid (snap to)

Page tiling, printing

Cheat Sheets