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Combine PDFs is a simple but functional tool for, well, combining several pdf documents into one. 

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Training Objective: Create a five page magazine layout utilizing multiple columns and a variety of image formatting techniques. Upload it to vspace.

Watch Winston’s tutorial and learn the basics of InDesign:

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Here are some sites that I have found useful over the years:

Bittbox is full of useful tips and freebies, best of all free photoshop and illustrator brushes and textures.

Web Designer Wall offers both design tutorials and web tips.

Best Web Gallery run by the owner of WDW Nick La, is a collection of good-looking sites. For inspiration.

I Love Typogrpahy showcases beautiful type in any medium.

Bookmark ‘em. Enjoy!

Training Assignment:

• Create a large format poster in Illustrator that applies principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment & Proximity.
• The poster should be 34″ by 44″.
• Export the poster as a non-editable .pdf, upload it to Vspace.

Outline:

I. Intro & Graphic Design Triage (3 min video)

2. Graphic Design Principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment & Proximity (10 minute video)

3. Illustrator Video Tutorial (25 min video)

4. Exporting non-editable .pdf files in Illustrator (4 min video)

5. Assignment Details

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ACS developed a training module for people interested in learning graphic design, Illustrator and posters.

Please visit it Graphic Design Training.

Outline:

I. Intro & Graphic Design Triage (3 min video)

2. Graphic Design Principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment & Proximity (10 minute video)

3. Illustrator Video Tutorial (25 min video)

4. Exporting non-editable .pdf files in Illustrator (4 min video)

5. Assignment Details

Here’s the simplest, least painful way I’ve found to upload a chapter from a book.



Instead of going through Epson Scan and then importing those files into a multiple file .pdf in Acrobat, one should open Acrobat first.

1.Open Adobe Acrobat

2.Choose Create PDF (Either on start up or under File). Choose “Create PDF from Scanner.”

3.You will be prompted with a window that would like you to choose a scanner. Epson GT 20000 should appear on the list.

4.Click on “Scan” and choose where you want to save your file.

5.The Epson Scan program will appear. Place the book in the scanner lying flat. Choose scan (sometimes you have to preview before this option is available).

6.After the first page you will be prompted to choose “scanning complete” or “scan more pages (put sheet 2).  Choose scan more pages if need be, and repeat step 5.

7.Once complete, choose scanning complete. OCR should run automatically in Acrobat.

It’s as easy as that!

-Jane

The Media Cloisters has a scanner that can be used to digitize 35mm film.

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I did a quick digitization of the 1989 Vassarion (the Vassar College Yearbook) as this is their 20th reunion year.

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A wiki is a group of web pages created and edited by one person (or a group of people) that allow for easy access and editing via a web browser. The pages contain text but they also support links and other forms of markup language. 

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