6. Graphic Design—Working with Clip Art and Making Your Own
by Alexander Anichkin
iWork for Mac OS X Cookbook
- iWork for Mac OS X Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- iWork for Mac OS X Cookbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Lateral Thinking
- 2. Working with Text
- Introduction
- Changing font (typeface) using toolbar, menus, or Font Panel—when to use which
- Blank paragraphs versus spaces after paragraphs
- Fitting more text on a page than it can hold
- Using tabs to stop text sticking to the edges of a colored background
- Creating smudged highlights for text
- Creating drop caps with the Custom Image bullets
- 3. Working Across Platforms and Applications
- Introduction
- Dragging a Word file onto the Pages icon to open it
- Opening the Excel documents in Numbers, editing them, and exporting them back into Excel
- Keynote and PowerPoint—working together
- Using screenshots and PNG files—shortcuts, options, and tricks
- Fitting files of other formats into iWork documents
- Making JPEG images from iWork documents
- Making a good PDF from an iWork document, and CMYK PDFs for professional printing
- Dragging and dropping files from one application to another
- 4. Where to Find Shortcuts and How to Remember Them
- 5. Working with Photos: Tips and Tricks
- Introduction
- Placing, cropping, editing, moving, and resizing photos
- Masking photos, and the magnifying glass trick
- Masking versus Image Fill—when Image Fill is easier than Masking
- Background images—setting a photo as the background and finding suitable photos
- Removing and changing the background in photos with Instant Alpha
- Using "patches" to improve photos
- Making cutouts with edited masks
- 6. Graphic Design—Working with Clip Art and Making Your Own
- Introduction
- Making symbols from Character Palette into clip art—where to find clip art for iWork
- Using elements of iWork templates as clip art—clipping a photo to a hand-written note
- Making your digital photos into a piece of clip art
- Putting images inside letters—filling letters with photos and other graphic images
- Turning a star into a thought bubble—how to edit shapes
- 7. Graphic Design: Making Your Own Logo
- Introduction
- Editing basic shapes to create a logo
- Adding or deleting editing points to create a heart shape
- Drawing logos with the free draw tool: Picasso's dog
- Rectangle, oval, and arrow: stacking, editing, and finding the right color
- Drawing a human shape and turning it into a logo
- Making your own images by tracing photos and other images: drawing a Robin
- Writing letters for your logo with the draw tool: the principles of a good logo
- 8. PDFs and Professional Printing
- 9. Planning Large, Long-term Projects
- Introduction
- Preparing a full set of promotional literature
- Creating a custom bulleted list when planning a brochure
- Designing the title in print or electronic format
- Using iWork templates to create your own media placeholder
- Using styles to create a company brand look
- Setting the document size—what to keep in mind when preparing a book in iWork
- 10. Designing from Scratch: Beyond Templates
- Editing a shape to create a graphic design element
- Drawing curved lines to enhance the graphic detail in a design
- Using flowing colors for graphic headings
- Using the color picker to create a custom color palette
- Fading an image from side to side with an overlapping object
- Setting custom document dimensions
- Using columns and Text Boxes to lay out text
- Designing repeating elements such as footer and object co-ordinates, and creating sections
- 11. Mastering Numbers: Tips, Techniques, and Fun
- Introduction
- Rearranging rows and columns
- Hiding columns instead of deleting them
- Adding up selected cells
- Setting and using formulas in financial documents
- Making documents secure and private
- Adding pictures to cells
- Using color coding—changing table row colors and setting cells to change color automatically
- Using clip art and photos in charts—the unbeatable visual effect of Numbers documents
- 12. Keynote Uncovered: a Few Techniques
- Index
In this chapter we will cover:
- Making symbols from Character Palette into clip art—where to find clip art for iWork
- Using elements of iWork templates as clip art—clipping a photo to a hand-written note
- Making your digital photos into a piece of clip art
- Putting images inside letters—filling letters with photos and other graphic images
- Turning a star into a thought bubble—how to edit shapes
A constant complaint on Internet forums is that iWork doesn't have clip art. No, there isn't a dedicated folder with predrawn images to add to our designs. But this doesn't mean that there is no clip art for iWork on our Mac computers.
In this chapter, we will see where to find clip art and how to make our own original images that can be used as clip art. With a few adjustments, or even without them, elements of iWork templates can also become clip art.
The recipes in this chapter will show a number of design techniques that anyone with a basic knowledge of iWork can first try—and then master—to achieve excellent results.
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