This tutorial shows you an advanced method of evaluating your photograph’s color accuracy and making the proper color correction adjustments. It is a more sophisticated technique of removing unwanted color casts, but the result’s will knock your socks off. Does require some basic knowledge of Photoshop.
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If you’re like me then you like everything from your website down to your legal contracts to look well designed and function to your client’s liking — which in most cases is… easily!
The problem with creating forms and other documentation for a client to fill out is most are created in Microsoft Word, or other form of word processors, because we’re afraid the client won’t have the right software to open, add to it and return it.
In doing so, the design is compromised because of word processor’s inability to function like professional design software. While MS Word is typically found on most computers and regarded as the most compatible document to send someone to fill out and return, that doesn’t mean you can’t have your cake (aka “good design capabilities”) and eat it too (aka “compatibility).
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Tiny Tutorials is a new feature on the Design Cubicle which will focus on short and handy design tutorials and tips.
In my very first ‘Tiny Tutorial’, I will be discussing techniques and tips I’ve learned along the way to improve justified type, such as how to tweak the word spacing, letter spacing and glyph scaling in Adobe InDesign to improve appearance, consistency and readability.
While well set justified type can look extremely beautiful and classy, the complete opposite can be said for not treating it with the proper care. When type is justified, the word spacing, letter spacing and glyph scaling (see below for meaning) is adjusted to fit the type in its constrained area, usually resulting in large gaps, windowing (too much letter spacing) or inconsistency of each line of type. Continue reading on how to improve this.
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