This is the second of a three-part tutorial on magazine design. If you haven’t done so already, complete the first part of the tutorial first and download the support files to follow along.


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You can follow along with this three-part tutorial in creating a small four-page magazine, in order to learn a few techniques and concepts along the way.


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Although InDesign works wonderfully with Adobe Photoshop, it’s always nice when you don’t have to constantly go back and forth. Adobe InDesign CS3 takes some lessons from Photoshop in the way of transparency effects. Those effects we’ve come to know and love—such as Bevel and Emboss, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, and Satin—have now made their way into InDesign CS3. This will be a real boon to your creativity and productivity. Let’s take a look at how this stuff works.


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So let’s learn the right way to build a form in InDesign (with a cameo appearance of Acrobat to make it fillable).


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Supplying your portfolio in printed form is so last century. Everybody who’s anybody is using PDF as the means to deliver their portfolios. So let’s learn not only how to create an easy-to-email PDF but also how make it interactive as well—with navigation buttons and even movies!


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Libraries have been around for years in page layout as a way to keep commonly used elements in one easy-to-grab place. Snippets are the new kids on the block, and by using Snippets you’re not required to keep everything in one place. The beauty of this is that there’s room for both in your design world. So let’s take a look at how they work.


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Adobe InDesign was the first major application to take full advantage of OpenType fonts, a superset of the existing TrueType and Adobe PostScript Type 1 font formats. OpenType fonts provide improved cross-platform document portability, rich linguistic support, powerful typographic capabilities, and simplified font-management requirements.


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It’s here! InDesign CS3, along with the rest of the Creative Suite 3, has shipped. Now it’s time to dive into some of the features that will enhance your creativity and speed up your production.


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It may sound like a simple thing, but you better believe that a lot of thought goes into the design of a magazine cover. Covers compete for attention next to dozens of other magazines on the rack. In this tutorial, we’ll not only take you through the process of creating a cover, but also reveal techniques that designers use to make their covers stand out.


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We know what you’re thinking: “Shouldn’t this be in the Photoshop section?” After all, whenever you hear the term “contact sheet,” you probably immediately think images and Photoshop. Also, if you looked around the InDesign interface, you wouldn’t really find anything that says contact sheet; however, Adobe Bridge CS3 and InDesign have this secret relationship that allows you to do some really cool things with automating image placement and metadata.


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