How to Use the Adobe InDesign Tool Palette
The Adobe InDesign Tool Palette may contain some odd-looking tools, but they all can play a welcome role in helping you create beautiful print …
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Typography: A Brief Tutorial
Typography is an essential element in desktop publishing worth knowing about. In this brief tutorial, I will introduce some working definitions in …
Continue ReadingHow to Change Colors in GIMP: A Tutorial for Changing the Color of an Image
This guide will show you how to use several of the basic color-related tools in the GIMP freeware for editing the colors in your images.
Continue ReadingHow to Crop and Rotate images in GIMP
One of the most basic ways to clean up an image using the GIMP image editing tool is to crop it. You can also fix an off-tilt image by using your …
Continue ReadingFree Templates for Thanksgiving Decorations and Crafts
Thanksgiving is just around the corner and there are plenty of sources on the Web for you to make printable Thanksgiving Day crafts to spruce up the …
Continue ReadingMake Your Own Thanksgiving Cards Fast Easy Cheap - Great Project for the DIY Crowd
It’s the middle of November already and you haven’t sent out your Thanksgiving cards. Sure, you could buy some basic store bought cards and scribble …
Continue ReadingA Collection of Fourth of July Fonts
Whether you’re designing menus for your Fourth of July cookout or invitations to watch the fireworks, you’ll want a couple of fonts for …
Continue ReadingFree Easter Fonts: Spring, Egg & Easter Bunny Fonts for Free
All sorts of fun goes along with Easter, and there are plenty of opportunities to use your desktop publishing skills to take the holiday up a notch. …
Continue ReadingFree Letters of Recommendation Templates
In part one of this two-part series, I described the elements of, and provided examples of, good letters of recommendation. In this article I will …
Continue ReadingFree Valentine's Day Fonts: 4 Romantic-Looking Fonts to Make Valentine Cards and Flyers
When February rolls around each year, you send out valentines. If you’re creating your own, one of the hardest parts can be finding fonts that …
Continue ReadingHow to Write a Good Letter of Recommendation or Personal Reference
This tutorial on the essential elements of a good letter of recommendation will illustrate how to write and complete this sometimes challenging task. …
Continue ReadingLooking for Free St. Patrick's Day Fonts? Here Are Four Fun Options
Come St. Patrick’s Day, you may need to bring the luck of the Irish to your desktop publishing projects. These four free fonts can do that for …
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