Advancing the future of digital publishing

Adobe is building on the foundation of Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 and Omniture® technologies to deliver an open, comprehensive Digital Publishing Platform. This innovative platform consists of applications, technologies, and services that allow publishers to cost effectively author, produce, and distribute groundbreaking content to the broadest possible audience on a wide variety of digital devices. […]

A Guide to Preparing Files for Print

With this guide, we are going to examine ways to prepare files for print, covering applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. The examples used are for InDesign, but can apply to Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a basic guide aimed to help people just starting out in the print design business or are looking to […]

Digital Print Republic introduces pay-as-you-go software for digital printers

Digital Print Republic announces that two new software products will be available on a pay-as-you-go basis via its website from today. FileFix from TimeHarvest and DesignMerge from Meadows Publishing will be distributed via the website, making it easy and economical to access for all members worldwide. Digital Print Republic is a fast expanding and major […]

Pantone Plus color system debuts

Pantone (Carlstadt, NJ) announces the launch of the Pantone Plus Series, the next generation of the Pantone Matching System. “Adobe Creative Suite plays a central role in helping designers realize their artistic visions and Pantone is also crucial to this process, allowing creatives to make and implement critical color decisions,” says Lea Hickman, senior director, […]

Pantone unleashes PANTONE PLUS, the next generation of color

For nearly 50 years, the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM has been the worldwide color communication standard. As technology and working styles advance, Pantone continues to evolve its color tools and technology to reflect today's design and production workflows. Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for […]

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Workshop

Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Workshop – FREE Monday, May 10, 2010 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PST Adobe Headquarters 801 N 34th Street Seattle, WA 98103 With the right tools, your creative horizon changes. A tree is still timber, but suddenly in a whole new way. Old ideas germinate again, and new ideas branch into unexpected opportunities. […]

15 Insanely Awesome Toolkits for Icon Designers

Icon is a visual anchor which helps us to navigate through the interface. Icon design is the process of designing a graphic symbol that represents some real, fantasy or abstract motive, entity or action. Icon designs may be of many designs and can be simple with 2d drawing or a black silhouette, or complex presenting […]

40 Top Notch Print Based Tutorials

There don’t seem to be enough print related tutorials online, so in this round up I wanted to cover as many print specific articles as possible. I also wanted to mix in some that weren’t directly print related, but that help create print related products like movie posters, ads, cd covers, etc. The tutorials in […]

35 Tutorials To Get Your Awesome Design Print-Ready

Print design is everywhere around us. You can see it everyday on newspapers, advertisements, brochures, business cards, T-shirt designs, posters. But you need some skills to create good looking, catchy print design and usually it’s not an easy task. In this article you’re going to find some useful tutorials working with print products on Photoshop, […]

Webinar 5/12 – Come Alive with CS5!

On April 12, Adobe announced the availability of Creative Suite 5. Join our free webinar, Come Alive with CS5!, to learn the latest productivity-enhancing features, including how artwork can now be quickly turned into high-quality interactive content. Attendees will also find out how to streamline critical processes like client reviews with CS Review. There are […]

Adobe launches Creative Suite 5

Adobe has launched the latest version of its Creative Suite software, CS5, which includes enhanced support for the graphic arts industry. Adobe said that the upgrade, which is expected to begin shipping within 30 days, would allow creative professionals to “work faster and with greater precision”. The US-based developer added that the software upgrade incorporates […]