Recent content by dfrbrowne

There is an oversupply of poor quality design out there, you even see it on the BBC! I have been in the industry for over 30 years and started as a paste-up artist before desktop publishing came in, I did an apprenticeship in typesetting. How many younger designers understand kerning, how often...

Hi Anyone have the plug in for indesign that allows you to open quark files? I have a 96 page holiday brochure I do for a client who now wants it in indesign format. I have seen the Q2ID plug in for CS5 and have files in Quark 8. Anyone have experience of using this? Thanks

Hiya, I have to create the cover for a project which will be a montage of 200 portrait pics of people, I have all the shots in one folder but rather than bring them in one at a time is there a way of just creating a montage automatically? How would you approach this? Thanks

Hi Is it possible to create an automatic mosaic in photoshop CS5? I have a folder with 92 thumbnails in that I would like to import into an A4 photoshop file to create a tiled mosaic page. Anyone help on this? Thanks

Hi, I am thinking of getting an ipad to help in my business and in my meetings, but want to know if I can do the following and if so what software to use. I design for print and all proofs I see or send out are pdfs, whenever a printer is doing a 24 page newsletter for me, they send me a...

Hi, I haven't done this for ages and now my mind is blank and I just can't remember, probably did it last in a much older version of photoshop as well. Ok so I am in Photoshop, I have a rectangular pic that I want as an oval with a gradient on the edges so it has blurred/faded edges if...

Thanks thats worked, is there anyway to quickly move up and down through the quark tolls without having to use the mouse, any keyboard shortcuts?

Hi, This has been bugging me for ages and finally am asking for help! You know in the old versions of quark when you had a pic box and called in an image and did auto fit you would sometimes need to just make the box a little wider or a little taller and click on the box and just drag it...

Try the DAX family, looks like it could be it

Thanks David that has really helped I did not have the override action open commands checked in the first box. Brilliant you have been a big help.

yes i,ve tried that

Can anyone help on this getting a bit frustrated, I have lots of images in folders that are rgb jpegs. I have created an action to open, convert to cmyk and save as an eps. When automating the batch and running the action its working but saving the files as the first image it opens and not...

I have my own business and work from home, as yet have not employed anyone because of the legal responsibilities, your employer is employing you illegally, I would get some advice from a solicitor and see if anything can be done, if not for you but to prevent him doing this to someone else!

I posted this problem (below) on Monday and have reset the pram and the SMU by unplugging from the wall, as yet have not opened her up. Working with her all week the problem only occurs when she is idle, she goes to sleep and will not come back up. I put her into sleep mode myself and tried to...

Thanks both of you fr the advice so far I will try doing this, just out of curiosity if the mac is busy there does not seem to be a problem, i had to go out today for over six hours so I just set up a long playlist on itunes and set it to play, when I come back its still playing so no problem...