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The method I recommend for pulling line art, drawings, and handwriting smoothly and cleanly off background surfaces.

Very Advanced: If you’re looking for training on using XML in InDesign, you’re facing a bit of a challenge. Here’s a good place to start.

So far in 2012, my training schedule has been all over the place. Read more here or contact me to initiate future training.

Hand-coding without an editor is totally overrated. As a designer who’s constantly learning code things, here’s why…

Quick Reviews of live classroom and virtual training InDesign projects, Basic and Advanced topics from Style Loops to GREP searches.

A few resources for learning more about Adobe Acrobat Pro, a lesser-known yet highly capable member of the Creative Suite family.

PDF files with quick reviews of exercises on basic construction techniques, path segments, and the Pathfinder.

When showing a portfolio of work, I firmly believe including some organized display of the work you did to reach a final result is crucial.

PDF Visual Reviews of some of the basic exercises on Masking, Adjustment Layers, Color Range Selection, etc. Will be updated soon.

Overview of 6 years teaching upper-level college design & advertising courses and extensive curriculum development.

Advanced Image Manipulation builds upon the Image Manipulation class to integrate raster & vector graphics with concerns for varied formats.

I spent years exclusively teaching & developing this course into a broad-spectrum campaign to yield students a strong set of portfolio-worthy pieces.