Mar12
Adding text to documents is crucial when working with Adobe Indesign. We show you the many variations in text editing and formatting in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Basically there are three methods of adding text to a document. You can either type the text manually, copy and paste it from a PDF document, or import the copy from a... Read more...
Nov19
After the brochure template has been created, it’s a simple matter each month or so to create a new edition of the brochure based on this layout. We demonstrate these time-saving techniques, and more, in our Adobe Indesign courses. The template has been saved as an indt file (Indesign Template), so rather than choosing New from the File menu we... Read more...
Oct29
Setting up Master pages is a crucial element of an Indesign template document, and will greatly increase the user’s efficiency and workflow. We demonstrate how in our Adobe Indesign training courses. Together with auto page numbering and the addition of paragraph styles and character styles, Master pages form the basic structure of the design. Basically anything on a Master page... Read more...
Oct16
Autocad 2d multileaders are used to point out aspects of a drawing. We show you how to create these useful annotations in our Autocad 2D training courses. Multileaders are basically lines of text, or sometimes objects, with an arrow pointing to a feature within our drawing. We add multileaders in Model Space generally. It’s a good idea to first create... Read more...
Jul8
Various styles are available in SketchUp Pro’s Layout extension for modifying the look of shape fills and line strokes via the Shape Style dialog box. We demonstrate how to do this in our SketchUp training courses. We first click the Fill button to reveal the various shape fill colours. Next check the Fill Colour button to open the Colour Picker... Read more...
Jul8
When the drawing is complete we would add dimensioning. This is an easy process which we demonstrate in full in our Autocad 2D training courses. First of all, make sure you add your dimensions on a different coloured layer: a dark colour which will print clearly like blue is best. The general rule is to add your dimensions in Model... Read more...
May5
In our Indesign training courses we spend a lot of time showing you how to set up user-friendly templates to save time in setting up brochures. For example, go to File > Create New Document. Set the number of pages to 8 and tick Facing Pages. Then set the page size to A4 with an Orientation of Landscape and a... Read more...
