#INDESIGN

[art-tip]

ADOBE IS DISCONTINUING CREATIVE CLOUD SYNCED FILES ON FEBRUARY 1ST OF 2024

DOWNLOAD ANY IF NOT ALL FILES YOU HAVE STORED

Full article here

[selkies-song]

In case y'all haven't heard, Adobe has officially lost its damn mind. Not only have they added, in no uncertain terms, giving themselves any and all possible rights to anything you create with their software, they made it so you have to accept these updated terms before you can access support (to clarify/ask questions) or cancel your subscription. :)

[stoutstoatpress]

VAST Guides are here!

By using VAST, you can learn how to add accessibility tags for screen readers to your PDFs, by using Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat.

I'm super excited to release a brand new publishing community resource: VAST (or Visual Accessibility Skills Toolkit).

>> WWW.VAST.GUIDE <<

VAST is a collection of short articles aiming to spread awareness about what visual impairments are, and how folks in the small press industry can accommodate them.

The guides are split into four sections:

Visual Impairment 101 explores what visual impairments are, how visually impaired people navigate digital content, and introduces some current language and definitions (circa 2023).

Screen reading PDFs explores the basics of how screen readers navigate through digital content. Includes video examples!

Using InDesign introduces different tools that designers can use to make their documents more accessible.

Putting Into Practice presents case studies of common structures in roleplaying games, and how they could be given accessibility tags using tools covered in section 3. (Coming soon!)

VAST was developed by Brian Tyrrell (me!), and disability advocate and accessibility consultant Yubi Coates. Visually impaired consultants and InDesign experts were brought in to corroborate the guides.

All of the information in the guides is up to date, and we’re committed to reviewing and updating the guides in 2024 and 2025.

This project was completed using a small pot of funding provided by Creative Scotland’s Create: Inclusion program in 2022.

[alexlipscomb]

queer art book, 2023, digital

[jennamoran]

remember, if you change Indesign preferences, you have to exit the program abnormally using the "exit" command instead of letting it exit through the normal process of crashing for the changes to stick!

[zulufic]

Typesetting with Adobe InDesign

I am going to teach myself to typeset with InDesign, and I will try to chronicle the process!

Starting point: I know there is a program called InDesign.

Step 1: Acquire InDesign.

Success!

[weandthecolor]

Download a Striking CV/Resume Template for Digital Presentations

Download here.

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[pittypongo]

An Interview with @echoprojectstruggletweets

[billy3478]

I have finished another project for my digital design class!! It was to make a fake yearbook page and I used horror characters!! I think it turned out great!

[sicksacrifice]

[lapsedcherries]

For one of my final projects for a subject in my semester, we had to make a brochure on any topic that interests us. So I made one of Touhou ofc :-)!

Sorry for english-speakers, since this one is fullt in spanish bc' im from México

[stingandsnoutbindery]

Today, I learned about Optical Margins. Can you spot the difference?

Optical margins are basically 'hanging punctuations' made by pulling the punctuation marks outside the margins, pushing the letters flush to the text frame, and thus creating an illusion of straight text. The image on the left is without optical alignment, and on the right, with. I literally just printed 2 copies of my typeset and now I'm tempted to reprint them just for this new addition LOL

This article better expounds on this feature and its contribution to book design.

[notanotherzerofan]

Adobe Alternatives

Adding on to my previous post with a post from Cohost in the case anybody still on the Adobe train decides they want off.

[thewallofnarcolepsy]

OH HERE ARE MY STUPID GRAPHIC DESIGN THINGS I MADE FOR MY PORTFOLIO and for my journal huehuehuehue

the first one i ever made was for reina idk why i thought she would be interesting subject matter for my first ever indesign project so yes it looks quite shabby and incomplete (in the video)

THIS one, yeah. idk where the idea came from but hey it was fun working with different textures and different coloring modes. plus evo vegas happening gave some fun headlines PLUS PLEASE WHEN I SAW THE TRAILER FIRST THING AT 5 AM, EMINEM WAS BLASTING IN MY HEAD LOL

i also tried to incorporate the red beads and tiger skin motifs for him, with filters to make em red and stand out against a black background? yeeeeeah.....

anyway heres a flipthrough of both, first reina, then heihachi :3

[jwt5000]

djo poster in honor of new djo post

[serenityscribes]

I’ve been rewatching the West Wing lately. Had to make a thing out of one of my favourite Sam speeches.