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Actually BoxShot (boxshot.com) can help with this... I'm sure there are free alternative out there as well.
Sometimes the best option is to photograph the actual work rather than trying to fake it with software.
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I either photograph the piece or in the case that I don't have that option I'll generally find a stock photo of the object and superimpose my work on top.
Its of course going to depend on specifically what you're doing but for book covers and spines for example I'll just find a high resolution stock image of a book and then drop my own cover art and spine ...
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Right click the swatch on your swatch panel. Go to Swatch Options. Change the Color Mode to CMYK. You will get decimal points which isn't a problem really but if it annoys you just then decide to round up or round down.
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You can use a paragraph rule to block in the whole measure or the text underline to highlight just the text. The trick is to get the offset just right then set a width value that matches or exceeds your leading value.
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I used table for my own report and it worked really good for me. For every code block that I needed, I just did a copy/paste of previous table. For syntax highlighting , I defined character style first but it was tedious to apply those styles for every pieces of code. Therefore just copied the code from IDE, preserving the color and font, to InDesgin. Here ...
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Choose File > Print Booklet.
If a printer preset has the settings you want, choose it in the Print Preset menu.
To use the print settings (as they appear in the Print dialog box) of the current document, choose Current Document Settings from the Print Preset menu.
If you don’t want the entire document to be imposed, select Range in the Setup area and ...
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My question:
Can I create a magazine exclusively using PhotoShop?
YES you can, BUT this is not the industry standard and it is highly frowned upon. See last paragraph.
My understanding:
It should simply be a case of using CMYK and an adequately high
resolution.
The standard is 300dpi for print, but again, that depends on the medium, ...
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No, you cannot design in the normal sense of the word design a magazine or any book for that matter in photoshop alone.
Photoshop alone has no way to do multipage layouts so at the very least you're going to need Photoshop, Distiller and Acrobat Pro to make the final print ready .PDF file.
You would be far better off learning at least the basics of ...
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Yes, Photoshop could be used to design a magazine. But, so could MSPaint. This is absolutely a job suited for InDesign.
InDesign has much better tools for typesetting. If I didn't have InDesign available to me, I'd probably even use word processing software to lay everything out instead of going with Photoshop. It's definitely not the tool for the job.
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It looks like your page 1 has undergone transparency flattening while pages 2 and 3 haven't.
Check your page 1 for transparent objects or objects with any blending mode other than Normal.
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I have a solution, please follow the steps below, it will help you:
Export your PDF file from Indesign as usual.
Open your PDF file if the file did not open automatically after saving it.
As you are viewing your PDF file In Adobe Reader, go to Preview / Preferences / PDF.
Unselect Smooth text and line art.
Close the image and export it again and you good ...
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In actual production all advertising spaces have specified dimensions - full page, half page, third page, quarter page, eighth page, etc. Those dimensions are posted online or provided in a specification sheet to advertisers. Specifications would include trim size, bleed size, and any other restrictions. Advertisers provide artwork for their own ad at the ...
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Here's a method that works and doesn't require anything other than basic InDesign features.
It's pretty easy, but has a few steps, so, if you need to do this often, it might be worth looking into using scripts instead (see comments below) so you can do all of this with one click, not many.
1: In a copy of the file, remove all text that doesn't have this ...
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Edit: Even though you seem to mention it multiple times, it just dawned on me that you were talking about character styles and not paragraph styles... :(
I'm just going to leave this here anyways.
You could do this with table of contents.
You can make table contents by using paragraph styles as the "hook".
Layout > Table of contents...
Here I pretty ...
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I don't have InDesign to check this, but assuming it behaves the same as the tester here, I believe this should work:
^.*?(:|$)
That's just matching everything from the start of a string up to either the first colon or the end of the string.
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I'd cheat (but I do that a lot).
Make sure every line ends in a colon, even the short titles which have no subtitles.
Use your GREP to make everything up to the colon bold.
Run a second S/R to find everything with "colon-hard return" and make it just "hard return" (which removes colons from any line without a subtitle).
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Here's another imperfect answer. If it's just a case of making something look different, you could do the opposite of what the question asks: have everything emphasised, grab everything after the character, and apply a style that de-emphasises it.
This is pretty simple:
:.*
It starts with whatever the first character is then keeps going, so it doesn't ...
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This is the closest I've managed:
\<[^:]*|[^:]*:
It means:
\<[^:]* - from the start of the paragraph (\<), grab things that aren't colons ([^:]), and grab any number of them (*)... (this gets lines that have no colons, and lines with colons up to the first colon)
| or...
[^:]*: grab any number of things that aren't colons ([^:]*) that are ...
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