Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Combine PDFs
Combine PDFs is a simple but functional tool for, well, combining several pdf documents into one.
Graphic Design
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
OIS web layout
The web team worked with the Office of International Services to come up with this new web design for Office of International Services The layout will be used by OIS to update the current website to make it more dynamic and interactive.
Monday, March 02, 2009
InDesign Training Module
Winston demonstrates the fundamentals of InDesign in this training module created for Media Cloisters Student Employees
Training Objective: Create a five page magazine layout utilizing multiple columns and a variety of image formatting techniques. Upload it to vspace. Make the file public and email the link to Baynard.
Due: March 30, 2009
Watch Winston’s tutorial and learn the basics of InDesign:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Graphic Design Links
Here are some sites that I have found useful over the years:
Bittbox is full of useful tips and freebies, best of all free photoshop and illustrator brushes and textures.
Web Designer Wall offers both design tutorials and web tips.
Best Web Gallery run by the owner of WDW Nick La, is a collection of good-looking sites. For inspiration.
I Love Typogrpahy showcases beautiful type in any medium.
Bookmark ‘em. Enjoy!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Illustrator and Graphic Design Training
Training Assignment:
- Create a large format poster in Illustrator that applies principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment & Proximity.
- The poster should be 34" by 44".
- Export the poster as a non-editable .pdf, upload it to Vspace, and email me the link ().
Outline:
I. Intro & Graphic Design Triage (3 min video)
2. Graphic Design Principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment & Proximity (10 minute video)
3. Illustrator Video Tutorial (25 min video)
4. Exporting non-editable .pdf files in Illustrator (4 min video)
5. Assignment Details
Friday, February 06, 2009
Graphic Design and Illustrator Training for Academic Posters
Learn the basics of Graphic Design, Illustrator and basic poster creation.
ACS developed a training module for people interested in learning graphic design, Illustrator and posters.
Please visit it Graphic Design Training.
Outline:
I. Intro & Graphic Design Triage (3 min video)
2. Graphic Design Principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment & Proximity (10 minute video)
3. Illustrator Video Tutorial (25 min video)
4. Exporting non-editable .pdf files in Illustrator (4 min video)
5. Assignment Details
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Making PDFs Easily with OCR (Ideal for scanning chapters out of books)
Here’s the simplest, least painful way I’ve found to upload a chapter from a book.
Instead of going through Epson Scan and then importing those files into a multiple file .pdf in Acrobat, one should open Acrobat first.
1.Open Adobe Acrobat
2.Choose Create PDF (Either on start up or under File). Choose “Create PDF from Scanner.”
3.You will be prompted with a window that would like you to choose a scanner. Epson GT 20000 should appear on the list.
4.Click on “Scan” and choose where you want to save your file.
5.The Epson Scan program will appear. Place the book in the scanner lying flat. Choose scan (sometimes you have to preview before this option is available).
6.After the first page you will be prompted to choose “scanning complete” or “scan more pages (put sheet 2). Choose scan more pages if need be, and repeat step 5.
7.Once complete, choose scanning complete. OCR should run automatically in Acrobat.
It’s as easy as that!
-Jane
Monday, January 26, 2009
35mm Film and Slide Scanner
The Nikon scanner in the Cloisters can scan film and slides.
The Media Cloisters has a scanner that can be used to digitize 35mm film.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
1989 Vassarion
This is a link to the 1989 Vassarion.
I did a quick digitization of the 1989 Vassarion (the Vassar College Yearbook) as this is their 20th reunion year.
Monday, August 04, 2008
Easy Wiki Creation
Creating a wiki is an easy way to develop web pages.
A wiki is a group of web pages created and edited by one person (or a group of people) that allow for easy access and editing via a web browser. The pages contain text but they also support links and other forms of markup language.
Posted by Baynard on 08/04 at 11:14 AM
Graphic Design • Public Relations • Web Development • Blogging • Permalink
Graphic Design • Public Relations • Web Development • Blogging • Permalink
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Photoshop: Image Retouching
This is a tutorial retouching a photo in Photoshop.
In this tutorial, Stephanie ‘08 demonstrates importing your photo into Photoshop, adjusting brightness & contrast, cropping, retouching and rotating.
Image Scanning
This is a tutorial for scanning images at the Media Cloisters.
Please watch this tutorial to learn how to scan documents with the flatbed scanners.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Indesign Tutorial THIS TUES!
InDesign Workshop
Tuesday 3:30 April 29, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Bulk Scanner
This is a tutorial for using the bulk scanner in the Cloisters.
With the the bulk scanner (AKA the HP Digital Sender) you can scan in multi-page paper documents and send them via email to anyone you want.
Combining .pdf files with Adobe Pro
Learn how to use Adobe Pro to combine .pdf files.
Adobe Pro, part of the CS3 suite available in the Media Cloisters, lets you take multiple .pdf files and make them one.
Watch this tutorial to learn how.