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| Design without rulers | |
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| Put away your ruler. Here's how to design the way you see. | |
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| The empty page has a lot to say | |
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| Don't fly past that setup dialog! It's where your design begins! | |
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| Our color wheel | |
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| The color wheel is our tool for understanding which colors go with what. | |
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| How to find the perfect color | |
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| The color palette you need is already hidden in the photo. Here's how to find it. | |
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| What typeface goes with that? | |
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| How to pick a typeface that complements a graphic. | |
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| How contrasts create type style | |
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| Using contrast properly can make or break your typographic design. | |
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| Typography 101 | |
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| Type is a tool: Learn how to use it properly, and your work improves. | |
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| Character parts | |
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| Many from one | |
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| Big photos have small photos inside. Here's how to get several images out of one original. | |
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| More from less | |
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| Cropping basics | |
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| How to crop photos for function and meaning. | |
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| Background selection | |
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| Focal points | |
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| Complex or ambiguous photo? Eight simple ways to put the reader's eye where you want it. | |
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| Cool covers | |
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| Ten simple ideas for great-looking covers. | |
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| How to design a second page | |
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| You've designed a beautiful outside. How do you follow it up inside? Simply. | |
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| Bring the outside in | |
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| Simply borderless | |
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| How to design pages for desktop printers that can't print to the edge. | |
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| Voice-over captions | |
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| A caption can be much more than a label. Here's how to get it onto your picture and into your story. | |
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| Multi-caption photo tells many stories | |
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| Multiple captions in high style | |
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| Lessons from a beautiful site | |
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| The University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences shows that beauty really is in the details. | |
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| A welcoming home page | |
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| Greet all of your online viewers. | |
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| Simple, bold, bright | |
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| Minimalism works on any scale. | |
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| Organize that card | |
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| The power of the postcard | |
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| Big image and small type, or big type and small image: Either works well. | |
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| Put a photo in your name | |
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| Words and pictures can be stronger than words alone. | |
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| Functional beauty | |
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| Make a theme | |
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| A simple graphic can provide a focal point, color, and continuity | |
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| Design a story-style brochure | |
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| Fold-and unfold-a single sheet into an appealing, narrative-presentation. | |
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| Template: Story-style brochure | |
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| Design a pocket-size brochure | |
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| Eight small pages tell a big story. | |
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| Template: Pocket-size brochure | |
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| A small newsletter that reads big | |
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| Half-size page is easy to design and creates a strong impression. | |
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| Design a "photo" graph | |
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| Design a card the easy way | |
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| A photo and one block of type is all it takes to make a beautiful card. | |
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| Design a dual-purpose letterhead | |
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| Legal-size sheet can serve as your letterhead and provide a bonus, too. | |
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| How to set a text-only logotype | |
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| The key is to work with the natural pattern of your letters. | |
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| Design a flier that comes back to you | |
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| On a budget? Design a flier that doubles as its own return envelope! | |
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| Template: Flier that comes back | |
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| Small site, great format | |
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| This simple beauty is ideal for professionals and small enterprises. | |
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| Template: Small format website | |
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| Design a beautiful Web header | |
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| Create an effective header the easy way. Just think in sections. | |
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| Design simple presentations | |
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| Visual brevity will help a great talk. | |
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| Picture your presentation | |
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| Photographs give your audience an emotional connection to your words. | |
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| Design a panoramic booklet | |
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| A cross between book and magazine, this landscape format is unusually easy to lay out. | |
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| Template: Panoramic booklet | |
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| Design below the line | |
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| Simple technique creates a report that looks open and inviting. | |
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| Index | |