Everything you need for perfect print designs
Every design starts with a thought, an idea which you can’t stop thinking about. You start imagining sparkling colours, catching phrases, awesome imagery and creative shapes working together to form this one master piece every client will be lusting after. Thus highly motivated you open Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator to get down to business and start to realise how awfully blank the screen looks back at you.
To help you get past this cruel moment we put together a neat collection of the design resources, tip & tricks and inspirational pieces we collected over time. Enjoy!
Inspiration
Let’s start with the blank page issue. Here are some design ideas for different project types that hopefully set your mood back to light and get you going.
- 30 excellent business card designs
- 33 special and creative flyer designs
- 55 Corporate Designs
- 17 creative sticky notes
For even more inspirational content check our Inspiration feed on a regularly.
Design Resources
You finally found out how to get about your design idea and need some shapes, textures or brushes? Here you go, there’s quite a lot of useful stuff in the following links.
Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator skill improvement
Sometimes you get to the point where you don’t know just what exactly you need to do to achieve an effect or transformation you need or the boss comes up and kindly reminds you of the deadline coming up about yesterday. Well, you can always hone your skills with a few tricks and nifty tweaks.
Photoshop Hacks
Illustrator Hacks
InDesign Hacks
Print basics
Getting your files right for printing is extremely important to achieve great results after the press. However basic this might be, we as a print company see errors crawling about pages even where we would never expect them. To avoid disappointments simply follow these easy tips to your print files in perfect shape.
- How to achieve better print results with bleed
- How to use RGB and CMYK correctly
- How to embed fonts
- How to add spot varnish to your printings with InDesign
Certainly, that list isn’t complete as it can never be. If you think something is missing or have advice to share with people facing issues just like you, feel free to contribute in the comments.
