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Adobe InDesign: The Frames and Shapes tool
Frames and Shapes are used to create objects that appear in your InDesign document. Frames are designed to hold graphics or text that you want to appear in your document. They are basically containers or placeholders. Shapes can also hold…
Adobe InDesign: How To Create An Interactive Button
In this InDesign tutorial, we will cover create an interactive button that will take you to a URL when it is clicked. Working with interactive buttons and the like are covered in our step-by-step InDesign training classes. Create The…
Office Computer Skills, Tips and Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts make you to be a faster and more efficient computer user. When learning Microsoft applications mastering keyboard shortcuts should be high on your list of priorities. Optimising your workflow can be key – did you know 38%…
Making A Greeting Card In Adobe Photoshop
This is part 4 of a four-part blog series on working with fonts in Adobe Creative Cloud. In this article we’ll look at creating a simple greetings card from scratch in Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Fonts (formerly called TypeKit) is a…
3 Excel Features for Accounting & Bookkeeping
Even after the emanation of automated bookkeeping software and technologies, Excel is still widely used for accounting and bookkeeping purposes. Many businesses and entrepreneurs continue to use Excel to record, store, analyze and manage their records. This is because Excel…
How To Take Advantage Of Logical Function In Excel!
Anyone that studied maths knows how powerful logical functions can be. And if it wasn’t, then this guide is all you need to become proficient in the logical functions in Excel. The details are given below, so let’s dive right…
How The Eisenhower Matrix Can Help You
Have you had the feeling that there is more on your to do list than you can accomplish in a day, a week or even a month? This article looks at the Eisenhower matrix, a very popular time management strategy. …
All About Timeboxing
“If you give yourself 30 days to clean your home, it will take 30 days. But if you give yourself 3 hours, it will take only 3 hours.” Elon Musk Allocating appropriate but relatively aggressive amounts of time to a…
Adobe InDesign: How to change the bullet character on bulleted paragraphs
You can very simply bring character to your lists by using different bullet characters. Good clear design will make your documents more memorable and stand out for readers. Customising bullets, fonts and the like on our InDesign course for complete…
Adobe Fonts: Creating Ligatures & Colour Alternates
Before you start this tutorial, make sure you have the following as before: FontSelf Extension for either Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop or BirdFont is you are using a free alternative. As mentioned before, this is a four-part series of…
Adobe InDesign: Understanding Panels
There are so many settings in a document that you may want to access quickly. InDesign provides you with a vast number of panels that you can display in the document window. A panel will display as a group of…
10 Ways Technology Can Raise Your Creative Game
How technology and creativity brings better and more innovative opportunities for creatives. What most people fail to realize at first glance is the role of technology in the exponential growth of creative ideas. Technology has made it a lot easier…