Embed Distiller Settings in PDFs
When using Adobe Distiller to generate PDFs, you can tell it to embed the settings that it used to generate a PDF inside the PDF file itself. This can be useful for troubleshooting, or to automatically...
View ArticleHow to tune Photoshop CS5 for peak performance
This article by Jeffrey Tranberry via blogs.adobe.com, gives photoshop users some excellent tips to keep Photoshop running at full capacity for what type of user you are. It starts from essential...
View ArticleIn-House Proofing with Epson R3000: An Affordable Option for Designers
Epson’s new Stylus Photo R3000 is a breakthrough product. At just $849, this is a step up from the R2880 and basically an R3880 at a smaller size (up to 13″ x 19″ prints). It uses the same inks as the...
View ArticleFree Vector Graphics Software – Inkscape
From the Inkscape wiki: “Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor similar to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. What sets Inkscape apart is its use of Scalable Vector...
View ArticleFree Image Manipulation Program – GIMP
Description: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many...
View ArticleConvert InDesign to Word & PowerPoint
Recosoft recently introduced ID2Office for InDesign. The plug-in converts your text, paragraph structure, frame links, tables, graphics and other objects, along with document properties, into Office...
View ArticleImage Resolution and Print Quality
One of the mistakes we tend to see over and over in the printing industry are files containing low resolution images. Below is an article written by Steve Patterson at photoshopessentials.com about...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About Color For Your Next Print Project
Printing Tips for Small Business – Part 1 RGB vs. CMYK RGB is a color build system used by your computer monitor to display full color. CMYK is the color space that commercial printing presses use to...
View ArticleCool QR Code Examples
Think QR codes are monochrome and ugly? Think again. The codes, originally developed in Japan in the 1990′s and now growing in ubiquity everywhere else, are actually highly customizable and, in some...
View Article5 Free Tools to Identify A Font
The Internet is full of gazillions of fonts that can, at times, make life tough if you are looking to find the name of a particular font. You know, those situations where you have the font but you...
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