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| Planning Your Design | |
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| Layout Variations: Standard and Custom Formats | |
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| Building Mechanicals | |
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| Developing a Working Grid | |
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| Placing Elements within the Grid | |
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| Getting Ideas and Gathering Imagery | |
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| Sketching Out a Game Plan: Thumbnailing | |
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| Exhaust the Possibilities: Creating Design Variations | |
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| Cutting to the Chase: Designing with Die Cuts | |
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| Designing with Type | |
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| Type Fundamentals | |
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| Understanding Tracking and Kerning | |
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| Distorting Type and Scaling in Proportion | |
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| Getting Type to Fit without Distorting It | |
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| Widows, Orphans, Ladders, and Rivers | |
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| Treating Type with Consistency | |
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| Many Faces, Many Moods | |
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| Classic Typefaces | |
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| Selecting Effective Typefaces | |
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| Choosing Typefaces: Form and Function | |
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| Working with Text Boxes and Columns | |
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| Small Caps and All Caps | |
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| Type and Drop Shadows | |
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| Creating Baseline Grids | |
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| Understanding Baseline Grids | |
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| Letting the Baseline Grid Serve as a Guide | |
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| Using Baseline Grids to Cross-Align | |
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| Type Readability | |
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| Designing with Photographs | |
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| Image Types: One Color, Two Color | |
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| Maintaining Image Integrity | |
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| Formatting Images for Print | |
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| Understanding Linked Images | |
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| Manipulating Images and Picture Boxes | |
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| Image Types: Monotones, Duotones | |
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| Type, Image, and Readability | |
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| Type and Image: Composing Page Layouts | |
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| Type and Image: Page Composition | |
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| Perfect Imbalance: Asymmetrical Design | |
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| Using Holding Rules | |
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| Focusing In: Cropping Techniques | |
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| Picture Box Shapes | |
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| Editing Picture Box Shapes | |
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| Custom Shapes: Using Pathfinder | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| Complex Shapes: Advanced Techniques | |
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| Image Grids: Step and Repeat | |
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| Complex Shapes: Align and Distribute | |
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| Placing Images into Text | |
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| Organizing Annotated Photo Layouts | |
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| Styling Pointers and Annotations | |
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| Creating Legends for Photographs | |
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| Advanced Typography | |
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| Using the Character and Paragraph Palettes | |
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| Vertical Type: Cheap Motels and Drive-ins | |
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| Curves Ahead: Create Outlines | |
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| Controlling Type Outlines | |
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| Keepin' It Real: Staying True to the Original Typeface | |
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| Creating Custom Ligatures | |
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| Applying Effects: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly | |
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| Shattering Type | |
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| Offset Path: Inlines, Outlines, and Shadows | |
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| Creating Stylized Drop Shadows | |
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| Creating the Illusion of Transparency | |
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| Separating Stroke and Fills | |
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| 3D Type: Beveling Type Outlines | |
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| Extruding and Creating Perspective | |
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| Metallic Type and Gradients | |
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| Type on a Path: Curves, Spirals, and Circles | |
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| Receding Type into the Distance | |
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| Inlaid Text: Cropping Objects into Type | |
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| Filling Shapes with Body Copy | |
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| Bubbles and Balls: Warp Effects | |
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| Creating Logotypes: 3D Effects | |
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| Distressed Type and Alternative Techniques | |
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| Using Envelopes to Warp Type | |
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| Masking Images into Type | |
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| Preparing Your Images | |
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| Destination Please? Formatting Images | |
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| Sizing, Scaling, and Setting Resolution | |
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| Image Prep: Cropping Images | |
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| Spot Remover: The Clone Stamp Tool | |
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| Getting Results: Basic Scanning Techniques | |
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| Focusing In: Sharpening Images | |
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| True Colors: Color-Correcting Images | |
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| Color-Correction 101: A Primer | |
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| Dodge and Burn: Tonal Correction | |
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| Scanning Large-Scale Artwork | |
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| Ghosting Images | |
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| Silhouetted Images: Clipping Paths | |
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| Silhouetting Images: The Quick Selection Tool | |
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| Soft Edges: Feathering Images | |
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| Creating Natural Shadows | |
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| The Cutting Edge: Torn Paper Effects | |
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| 3D Objects and Textures | |
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| Smart Objects and Silhouetted Images | |
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| Fade Away: Creating Vignetted Images | |
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| Manipulating Imagery Using Filters | |
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| Silhouetted Images: Clipping Paths | |
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| Silhouetting Images: The Quick Selection Tool | |
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| Soft Edges: Feathering Images | |
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| Creating Natural Shadows | |
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| The Cutting Edge: Torn Paper Effects | |
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| 3D Objects and Textures | |
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| Smart Objects and Silhouetted Images | |
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| Fade Away: Creating Vignetted Images | |
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| Manipulating Imagery Using Filters | |
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| Illustrating Effectively | |
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| Simple Illustration Approaches | |
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| Visual References: Tracing and Live Paint | |
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| Combining Primary Shapes | |
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| Mirror, Mirror: Building Symmetrical Shapes | |
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| From Line to Shape: Outline Stroke | |
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| Refining and Styling Line Quality | |
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| Between the Lines: The Live Paint Tools | |
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| Styling Illustrations: Linear Techniques | |
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| Creating Linear Patterns | |
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| Keeping Perspective: Cylindrical Shapes | |
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| Building Interlaced Shapes | |
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| Coiled Objects: Chain Links and Slinkys | |
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| Nuts and Bolts: Building and Styling Technical Shapes | |
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| Vanishing Points and Two-Point Perspective | |
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| Using Blends to Build Shapes and Create Volume | |
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| Creating Banners and Ribbons | |
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| The Final Touch: Backgrounds and Shadows | |
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| Using Custom Brushes | |
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| Warp Effects and Custom Brushes | |
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| Designing Charts and Graphs | |
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| Creating Variations and Using Artboards | |
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| Gradient Mesh: Smooth Surfaces | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Prepping Images | |
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| Why Doesn't the Print Match the Screen? | |
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| Mechanicals | |
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| Building Prototypes | |
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| Creating Acrobat PDF Files | |
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| Preparing Files for Final Output | |
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| Color Proofing | |
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| Collecting for Output: InDesign Packages | |
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| Fifth Colors | |
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| Paper Stocks | |
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| PDF Formats | |
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| Decimal Conversion Chart | |
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| Design Resources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photography and Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |