a nest of bees in graphic design

how to use your print design and webdesign tools

1. open a new document with the following settings.

2. when you create the layout split it into 3 parts
- the frontpage of the brochure should be divided into: 97 mm/ 100mm/100mm.
- divide also the backpage into: 100 mm/ 100 mm/ 97 mm.
doing this you will create a brochure that will fold (the backpage and [...]

For an interesting effect, you can make one image look as if it�??s inside multiple
frames:

1. Place the image in a circular frame.

2. Use Edit > Step and Repeat to create a row of frames.

3. Using the Direct Selection tool, shift-click to select each image

4. Using the Alignment controls in the Control
Palette, align first the top [...]

I made a site for some friends and i needed to put external images. Because they were too big i wanted to use a preloader. How did i make it? Follow this post and see.
1. First save all the images on a folder (for example /images - on the root of the site—see the previous [...]

not so long ago, at my old job, i quite frequently had to cut out the background of some photoshop images. nothing special so far…
but guess what: all of those images presented close-ups of people (women and children)… can you imagine how fun it is to cut off their hair? especially with curlly hair!! [...]

working as a designer within a quite small advertising company has pros an cons.
and although we manage some great accounts, like emporiki bank and nike, we also have smaller customers with smaller marketing departments (if any ).
in my experience these smaller companies always have “special requests” and provide us with fewer materials.
today i’ve had [...]

i’ve been writing you for some time now about how you can use text wrap in indesign.
and now, because some of you asked for this… i’d like to get into that in more detail
here’s how you can wrap some text on a nonregular formed object using indesign.
it’s a 6 steps tutorial which goes [...]

did you ever want some fancier buttons? or controls?
did you ever wonder how you can create some regular (or non-regular) 3d objects?
here’s how!
first of all you have to create a 2d object that you want to convert to 3d object. for example, you need a circle to create a sphere. or a square to create [...]

you get a faster trace in illustrator as you downsample, because this action results in a less complex image to analyze.
and yes, you should be concerned about the resolution, as it is the most important factor with this. but have no fear!
here’s what you get if you bring an image into Illustrator at the highest [...]

not so long ago i wrote you short tutorial on how to create a folding brochure in indesign .
and i’m still wodering:

is that tutorial helpfull enough for you to create a 3 column layout by yourself?
do you need additional help?
does any of the steps presented require more detail?

thanks for the feedback!
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being a graphic design professional ;), you might get in the situation that you want to insert one or more images inside text (editable and non-vectorized) using indesign.
so you try to convert the text to outlines and place the image inside the resulting frame.
but hei!
even though InDesign can do incredible things with text and [...]