Monday, June 11, 2012

About Desktop Publishing: Dipping Into Black Ink

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From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing
Black can play nice or play messy in your designs. It all depends on how you mix it.

Designing With Black Ink
some of the many faces of blackThere's more to the color black than just black. You may have heard a rich black formula here and there -- add 30% cyan. Add 40% magenta. Perhaps you've heard that you shouldn't use the default black in Photoshop but weren't sure why. Learn about or brush up on the basics of using black ink and CMYK mixtures of black and check out my chart of about a dozen common formulas for rich black.
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Set Up Bleeds in Publisher
In Thursday's newsletter all about blueprints I made a mistake. In my tutorial on creating a blueprint-style business card in Publisher I didn't build in a bleed allowance. I've corrected that and did this simple tutorial showing why and how to do bleeds in Publisher for desktop printing.
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