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  • Design skills to pay the bills?

    Feedback from our forum suggests that many of you are dissatisfied with the way design-software skills are taught in higher education. But are the universities to blame?

  • 101 ways to create better images

    It's all about the image, and there are ways of getting it right and ways of getting it wrong. We present invaluable advice from top designers on making sure the images you create, in whatever medium you work in, are bang on the money every time.

  • Fake 3D in After Effects

    It's easy to add extra depth to your motion graphics work using Illustrator's Collapse Transformation function to create simple 3D objects. Regular JJ Johnstone gives you all the know-how you'll need...

  • Make the most of OpenType

    What does an OpenType font have that other font formats don't? Maybe nothing or maybe everything. We explain.

  • Be the best

    Learning new skills can reap great rewards and open doors to new creative opportunities. But what does it take to keep pace with the latest technologies and stay one step ahead of the pack? Nick Spence finds out.

  • 10 minute tutorial: Type within type

    When you convert type to outlines in it creates a frame that can contain a picture or be used as a text frame that you can then fill with type.

  • Mastering InDesign preferences

    InDesign is not just a tremendously powerful layout package, it's also hugely customisable. Susannah Hall explains how to change the default settings to suit you.

  • Sharpen your design skills, part one

    Get more from the software you use every day as five top creatives share their favourite tricks and techniques for working faster and smarter.

  • Nesting your styles

    There's nothing fun or creative about applying Character Styles. So let do the work for you, says Susannah Hall.

  • Creative lighting techniques

    It's easy enough to add natural-looking lighting effects to your clean vector graphics, says Ben the Illustrator.
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