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Extreme Ad Makeover with InDesign/InData (Part 3)
WELCOME TO PART 3 of our “Extreme Ad Makeover” trilogy, and thanks for sticking with us as we wrap up this tutorial. In Part 1 we showed off the finished product, and then covered some tips, techniques and best practices for preparing…
Extreme Ad Makeover with InDesign/InData (Part 2)
WELCOME TO PART 2 of this three-part case study/tutorial on using Em Software’s InData with Adobe’s InDesign to create an “automated” real estate ad that literally builds itself. Yes, there is some assembly required, but once the InDesign template…
Extreme Ad Makeover with InDesign/InData (Part 1)
ONE OF THE more onerous tasks for print designers is building a grid-based ad consisting of multiple products that share the same style and layout. In this example we’re going to look at a typical real estate advertisement built with Adobe’s InDesign…
Ain’t that good news?
New Jersey-based Star News Group (SNG) publishes two weekly newspapers, The Coast Star and The Ocean Star, with a combined paid circulation of approximately 18,000, as well as the bi-weekly, ad-supported Night & Day entertainment guide. These publications serve...
An imperfect ten
BURIED DEEP within the (Touch ID &) Passcode settings on our iPhones is a toggle switch that reads simply: “Erase Data.” Below this switch, a small block of help text adds the following explanation: “Erase all data on this iPhone after 10 failed passcode...
Compel Capitan
THAT’S MY PET NAME for the newly-arrived Mac OS X 10.11 (aka “El Capitan”), given how one is virtually bludgeoned into upgrading with incessant App Store notifications. Even as cautious an early adopter as I took the plunge the day 10.11 was released, but only because...
Pencil me in
IT’S BEEN nearly a week since last Wednesday's announcements, and despite all the attention the media is lavishing on new iPhones w/3D touch, gigantic iPads and a pretty remarkable upgrade to the Apple TV, I remain enthralled by the introduction of a $99...
Playing catch-up
LOOKS AS IF we’re both playing catch-up lately—Apple and I, that is. For me, it’s just another long-overdue blog entry that’s finally been posted to a site that still sports a collection of wintry imagery up top (working on that too, I promise). Hey, it’s been a...
Picture perfect(?)
In which we hail the recent unveiling of the new Photos app, and the imminent demise of Apple’s heretofore dysfunctional photo-management ecosystem
THE END is near. Finally. The end of the current sorry state of photo management on our Macs and iDevices, that is.
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