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InDesign CS5 & CS5.5 * Package files. For detailed information and instructions, click the links below.

InDesign CS5 & CS5.5 * Package files

Preflight panel overview Before printing or handing off the document to a service provider, you can perform a quality check on the document. Preflight is the industry-standard term for this process. While you edit your document, the Preflight panel warns of problems that can prevent a document or book from printing or outputting as desired. You can configure preflight settings to define which conditions are detected. To take advantage of live preflighting, create or specify a preflight profile in the early stages of creating a document. Preflight panel Selected error Click page number to view page item Info area offers suggestions for fixing the selected error Specify a page range to limit error checking For a video tutorial on live preflight, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid4025_id.

Open the Preflight panel Choose Window > Output > Preflight.Double-click the Preflight icon at the bottom of document window. Define preflight profiles. 50 Beautiful and Effective Package Designs. When choosing one product over another, the design of the packaging probably influences your decision far more than you realize.

50 Beautiful and Effective Package Designs

Effective packaging design breaks away from the standard rules and conventions that we are accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge to stand out from the rest. The packaging should appeal to your target market. Adapter - Free Image and Video Converter for Mac and PC. How to use your skills for evil/good. I am usually not a fan of forwards, but this is really funny.

How to use your skills for evil/good

A woman loses her cat and asks her designer friend to drop everything and make a poster to post around the neighborhood. Anyone who works in a service role (developers, marketers, pr peeps) gets these kind of requests from friends, but they never quite turn out this funny. From: Shannon Date: Monday 21 June 2010 9.20am To: David Subject: Poster. Why you don't like changes to your design.

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Composition Chapter Resources. Adobe Suite Resources. Fonts. Prepping for the Job Market. Inspiration. Citation on Yellow Dot on Typography Served. The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ. Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow.

The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ

Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate. If you’re a professional who likes to be intellectually stimulated and you enjoy keeping up with the latest news and breaking trends, the internet provides you with an endless choice of carefully curated sites to visit.

Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate

Today, we bring you six of them that we believe are leaps and bounds above the rest. These sites will not only educate you on topics ranging from business and technology to art and design, they’ll motivate you to find your own, original ideas and see them through. They’re culturally relevant, they’re idea driven and most of all, they’re deeply inspirational. TED is short for three incredibly important subjects in our modern world; technology, entertainment and design. Started in 1984, TED brings together the most brilliant minds to teach us about issues that matter. Tip: Download TED’s free iPad app to browse through 800 videos by date, popularity or keyword.

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers. DesignWoop welcomes this guest post by Tomas Laurinavicius.

10 Useful Web Apps for Designers

Since the iPhone and iPad entered the market you can hear lots of news about apps for these devices. Cool Sites, Cool Videos, Design Schools, Trends. Inspired Magazine. 12 paradoxes of graphic design - Tobias Bergdahl.

Ten Steps to Becoming the Designer You Want to Be - Design - GOOD. Digital Marketing: 7 Tips for Generating Fresh Ideas. The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, Mass., that makes a full platform of marketing software, including marketing analytics tools.

Digital Marketing: 7 Tips for Generating Fresh Ideas

We've all been there: You've had a raucous weekend, and now it's Monday morning, time to drag yourself into work. If you have a certain kind of job, it's no big deal. You can coast a bit, maybe surf the web and take a few extra trips to the water cooler until you feel up to really working. But if your job requires you to be creative — and perhaps you're getting paid a decent amount to come up with ideas — then you don't have that option.

In that case, you have to start coming up with ideas even though you'd rather be lying on your couch eating Cheez Doodles. What to do? Series supported by HubSpot Image courtesy of iStockphoto, aluxum, Flickr, Alan Light. Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity. The Art of the Imperfect. Ira Glass on Storytelling. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action. David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization. Adobe Student Software at Academic Superstore. Adobe's most popular design and collaboration tools are available at up to 80% off the full retail price for students, faculty, and staff!

Adobe Student Software at Academic Superstore

Create amazing reports and portfolios, collaborate on assignments, and more with Adobe's award-winning tools for design, web, video, and mobile. For best pricing on volume license purchases, please contact your institutional sales rep directly or call us at 1-866-389-0102. Designer Resources.pdf.

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Pecha Kucha. Ads. Logos. Corporate Identity. Sample Online Portfolios. Communications Plan. Making Concept Maps.