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project 7 Letterhead Design project 10 Combined Brochure
Setting up the
Controlling Color
Workspace
for Print
Creating Basic Page
Linked Files
Elements Working with
Placing External Fine-tuning Text
Images

Creating and
Formatting Basic Text
Printing InDesign Files

project 8 Festival Poster Against Th e Clock’s Th e Professional Portfolio Series teaches
Building Graphic Interest
graphic design software tools and techniques entirely
within the framework of real-world projects; we introduce
Importing and Formatting Text
Working with Text as Graphics and explain skills where they would naturally fall into a real
project workfl ow.
Adjusting Th e project-based approach in Th e Professional
Layout Size Portfolio Series allows you to get in-depth with the software
beginning in Project 1 — you don’t have to read several
Outputting chapters of introductory material before you can start
PDF Files creating fi nished artwork.
Our approach also prevents “topic tedium” — in other
words, we don’t require you to read pages and pages of
information about text (for example); instead, we explain
text tools and options as part of larger projects.
Clear, easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions walk you
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through every phase of each job, from creating a new fi le
project 9 Working with to saving the fi nished piece. Wherever logical, we also off er
practical advice and tips about underlying concepts and
Templates
graphic design practices that will benefi t you as you enter
Working with
Th e projects in this book refl ect a range of diff erent
Styles the job market.
types of print design jobs using Adobe Illustrator,
Working with Photoshop, and InDesign. When you fi nish the ten
Tables projects in this book (and the accompanying Portfolio
Builder exercises), you will have a solid foundational
Prefl ighting knowledge of the three most popular applications in the
and Job print design market — and a substantial body of work that
Packaging should impress any potential employer.

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