Category / InDesign / production / workflow
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Hello, Make Book Jacket
Where have you been hiding out? Somehow I missed you, most amazing InDesign plug-in. Well, It’s nice to meet you finally, Make Book Jacket. You’re awesome. Measuring out a book jacket, case wrap, or paperback isn’t difficult. Still, adding all the horizontal measurements, placing guides, crops, and bleed marks takes a little time and there is…
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Creating with Adobe Capture
Recently I discovered a nifty little app, Adobe Capture. Using a phone or tablet, it transforms images into vectors, patterns, materials, brushes, and shapes, recognizes fonts, and creates color themes and gradients. Mostly, I can see using it for font identification and palette creation. The type feature is similar to MyFonts.com ‘what the font’ and…
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I 💛 Reset Jessie
I owe quick and efficient production work to small little time savers here and there. With an approved design in hand, here are a few of the things I do to make building out a project move quickly: I use saved workspaces. Having an orderly physical space helps me focus. I find the same thing…
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All Buttoned Up
I like my InDesign files tidy, and while we are on the subject, there’s nothing like a lovely, precise template. (Have I mentioned that I love creating templates?) That said, I am not neat on the front end. My initial design files are messy. Like most designers, as I move elements around and around and…
