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Graphic Design For Dummies
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Graphic Design For Dummies

by Ben Hannam
January 2025
Beginner
272 pages
7h 12m
English
For Dummies
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Index

A

  • AA (minimum contrast), 210–211
  • AAA (enhanced contrast), 210–211
  • adjustment layers (Photoshop), 75
  • Adobe Capture app, 88
  • Adobe Color website, 207–208
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
    • Behance platform, 38, 88
    • Illustrator
      • AI capabilities, 70–71
      • drawing and editing capabilities, 69–70
      • overview, 66–67
      • repeating patterns, 154–155
      • software alternatives to, 86–87
      • text boxes, 156–158
      • typography and text tools, 68–69
      • vector drawing tools, 67–68
    • InDesign
      • baseline grids, setting, 189–190
      • bleed line, 82
      • bottom margin, 82
      • columns, 82
      • document edge, 82
      • inside margins, 81
      • interactive documents, 84–85
      • margins, 81–82
      • outside margins, 75
      • overview, 79–80
      • page layout and design, 80–82
      • parent pages, 83
      • PDFs, 84–85
      • software alternatives to, 87–88
      • text boxes, 156–158
      • top margin, 81
      • typographic elements, 83–84
    • overview, 65–66
    • Photoshop
      • adjustment layers, 75
      • AI capabilities, 78–79
      • blend modes, 75
      • brightness, adjusting, 74
      • Clone stamp tool, 75
      • color tools, 74, 77–78
      • Content-aware fill, 75
      • contrast, adjusting, 74
      • cropping tool, 166–167
      • Curves feature, 74
      • filters and effects, 75
      • Healing brush tool, 75
      • Highlight tool, 74
      • Hue tool, 74
      • image editing and retouching, 74–77
      • layers, 74–77
      • Levels feature, 74
      • Masking, 75
      • masking in, 75
      • overview, 72–73
      • Saturation tool, 74
      • Selection tool, 75
      • Shadow tool, 74
      • software alternatives to, 87
    • software alternatives to, 85–88
  • Adobe Express app, 88
  • advertising, optimizing with AI, 245
  • Affinity app, 85–86
  • affinity diagram, 99
  • agencies, working for, 11–12
  • AI ...
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