From first concept to beautifully printed piece in your hand!

There is no need to rely on a third party to make your work ready for repro.
Complete your print jobs with the finesse and expertise of an old school finishing artist. Work through actual problem files, learn practical first class techniques from experienced graphic designers and avoid embarrassing and costly print blunders.

InDesign
• Transparency
Overprint text knockout traps spreads
• Managing links
Fixing missing update and modify links
• Preflight and package
• Create composite print settings for printing a doc proof
• Print colour seps print presets, printing press
• Colour calibration
• Spot colour, use halftones to produce colour
• Create process and spot colours: add delete replace
• Colourising a greyscale image
• UV Spot, Emboss, Foil, Die Line, Foldmarks
• Bleed printers crop marks
• PDF settings spreads single pages
• Creating outlines for text, scenarios

Illustrator
• Export paths from Photoshop, „Clipping“ masks
• Transparency flattener presets
• From Freehand to Illustrator to print
• Rasterizing images, resolution
• Transparency print guidelines
• Image raster settings (default resolution)
• Overprint issues: Re. Palettes Trapping/Spread Bleed
• Isolate blending and Knockout group
• Effects
• Multiple crops, adding crop
• Tiling for print

Photoshop
• Creating a two colour document/pantones
• True black and white image
• Full colour to two colour three colour DCS eps
• PDF from Photoshop
• Tiff's LZW Compression
• Explain why not to use other formats
• Rasterisings, PDFS and make JPGs for 3rd party web
• Traps spread overprint black knockout
• Creating a newspaper ad
• Colour/B&W/„under“ colour removal

Venues

Date: 03 March 2008 to 06 March 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 02 June 2008 to 05 June 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 01 September 2008 to 04 September 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 01 December 2008 to 04 December 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Contact: Moritz Fritsche
Company name: Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts
Telephone number: +27 21 461 09 71
Email address moritz@friendsofdesign.net