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you're so welcome! :)

It's a unique piece probably in limited qty. You can try reaching out directly to D&K to see if you can grab it! www.dkprinting.com/

Heya! Oh gosh ya. Canva is brutal for forcing everything into RGB. Even their "CMYK" isn't true CMYK. It's a tricky one! We touch on RGB to CMYK in our File Prep walkthrough but more content on it is a great idea. :) ua-cam.com/play/PLCnZzTdwY3XAzz78G8f4FxXbFd30iiaPB.html&si=8176MDb1zdZH1OAf

Thank you kindly :) Glad you enjoyed it!

It's definitely a fun one!

Illustrator will always save the PDF the size of your document, whichever size that is. When you create a new document, just type the size in as you need to create a custom size. You can also edit afterwards using Document Setup in the File Menu or the Artboard tool to edit artboard size.

Thank you so much for the feedback! Our way of trying to keep the videos engaging, but I can totally see that it might a bit jarring. Glad you found the video helpful though!

Ya unfortunately, Illustrator Actions can’t record selections, only main commands like CLEAR. It's because they try to make them more usable on a general scale. You would just need to select objects first and then run the action to get them to clear those items. You could also try Illustrator’s Find and Replace for text or consider using scripts to automate logo/text swaps across multiple files.

The number would just be in a text box so you can move around with your mouse, but if you're looking for the align tool more often, you can go to Window>Object & Layout>Align. Then you can take that lil align window and drag it to your sidebar to have it there permanently. Let me know if you're talking about something different than that.

There's personal preferences and also what the clients prefer to consider. Center alignment works for some and left-aligned can work for others. No right or wrong answers-depends on the vibe.

@@PrintDesignAcademy idk the designs that always have caught my eye was always center aligned. But in a stylized way you know what i mean.

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Hey there, so the Pantone Connect tool is best for finding the closest Pantone match to your CMYK. You can enter CMYK and then it'll give you options to choose from with conversion values. Always best to double check with an actual physical guide in front of you. Pantone's never look the same as what's on screen. If you don’t have access to either of those, chatting with a local print shop would be next recommendation. They typically have the software and they'll have Pantone books that you can borrow to get the most accurate conversions. Hope that helps!!

Since the labels have rounded corners, using the built in bleed would show the bleed lines as straight where using a custom bleed better represents it and doesn't cause confusion.

@@PrintDesignAcademy yea but i do not even think that would matter because its a "bleed." the die line is still going to exist the way it is. it will be cut rounded. The bleed is simply to make sure any sort of inaccuracy is covered by the designs colors.

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When you say 'preset lines' are you talking about the rounded corner dieline? If you are producing a straight label without rounded corners then you set up your file at the start with 0.125 inch of bleed on every side. Design your artwork to the bleed (outside the artboard) Then when you go to export the PDF in the Marks + Bleed settings, 1. Click Trim (Crop) Marks 2. check the box "Use Document Bleed Settings"

It's a free online challenge we host where we provide you with a fake brief that's tailored for a print project. Then we walk you through step by step in our private community on how to get your file ready for print! - The last one we had everyone design a VHS sleeve with a dieline. Was such a fun time. You can join the waitlist for the next one at colorbarchallenge.com. :)

Great point! A TIFF is the best for high quality images as they are uncompressed (unlike JPGs.) They can however create really large file sizes. I like to use TIFFs on projects where the image is really large coverage like a full page. JPGs are usually fine for smaller sizes.

Heya! So that vertical line is actually available on your keyboard. Mine on my Mac is shared with the backslash key [ \ ] so I hit Shift + \ to get mine. Hope that helps

That's so sweet! Thank you so much, that really means a lot. :) So happy you enjoy them.

Yayyyyy you're welcome!

You're most welcome!

No problem! Happy to help ya out.

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You can double click into your swatches and adjust the levels any time. By process black, do you mean rich black so C:30 M:30 Y:30 K:100 to true black of K:100? If so, it'd just be changing the swatches and making sure your black graphics are all set to that. By default the black is usually K:100 anyway. (other than in Illustrator if the file isn't set to the PRINT section when you create it. It'll be an RGB black trying to convert to CMYK which is wild and will need to be manually changed to CMK:0 K:100)

@ thank you for such a thorough explanation!

Awesome to hear! Thanks for your comment.

If your design requires a die for kiss cut or contour/cut then yes you will need to make sure it's in your file! We have some detailed videos in our courses/community walking you through proper dieline setups ••• We'd love to have you in the Academy! We can also give you 1:1 support on projects there: printdesignacademy.com (there's a 7-day free trial)

I’ve been using a phased pricing system for about four years, ever since I read Michael Janda's book The Psychology of Graphic Design Pricing, where he goes into great detail about it. While I don’t apply this method to every project, I always use phased pricing for annual reports, websites, and logo designs-it’s the only approach that makes sense to me for those types of work.

Great video, Dave! I thought the idea of building a proposal with the client was very interesting. I can see how this approach would increase sales since there’s transparency and the customer would feel involved in the process. 😊

@@edgydougthat’s great! Awesome to hear it’s working out for yah and when you use it.

@@amyjfarrellso glad you liked that! Definitely found it unique for sure.

Trapping and Holdback typically are going to be up to your printer to decide the amounts they need. It's best to let them choose those amounts and edit since they'll know their machines the best and have their own systems in place! :) just bleed and crop/dieline from you.

@ oh i see. Thank you for your replied 🙏

So I do touch upon effective vs actual at the 2 min mark. I do get what you're saying that yes, you would want the effective dpi/ppi to be 300. What I am also teaching though is resizing the dimensions of your image to roughly match the size of what you have in the design which then makes both the actual and effective dpi 300 since it's true to size. We'll take your note on for the checklist though. Thanks for the suggestion.

If you're referring to the FREE PDF guide you can find it here: printdesignacademy.com/PrintReadyFiles

Okay so unfortunately not exactly, but there is a way you can use 'Section Prefix' within the Page Numbering section. It will always be in front of your Page # though without spaces so you'll have to add a dash or something to separate them. It also now is a part of the page number so will always show that page # as such in PDFs. ex. [ Pg Hello-6 ]. You could just create a Parent Page for each Chapter where the text is on it as a regular text heading, then use the section marker wherever you need. Assign the Chapter Parent Page to that full chapter (you can use 'Apply to pages' to do it in bulk) and then it allows you to change the section markers as needed within that chapter. Hope that makes sense!!

okayyyy actually! You could also use something called Running Header in Text Variables. I'm not familiar with it, but looked into it a bit. I think it auto recognizes your largest header on the page and then can be added to a parent page and it'll continue the header for you until the next header switches. I'm not sure how it determines the header so you might need to trial and error. But look up: Type > Text Variables > Running Header (then the internet might have some further insight on how it picks the header)

@PrintDesignAcademy thank you!

Okay! Yes there's a sneaky way you could. Create 2 Parent Page options. One with Previous Page Number and then one that is your no Page #s. Your page 1 would have to be done manually but then starting on page 3 it should grab Pg # 2 and then that should would work moving forward. (I did however try to do this on my end and it wasn't grabbing the previous page # and just showing the current one?? Not sure if it's a glitch on my end so still suggesting it since that would be the way that makes the most sense to me.) Then you could go "apply Parent to pages" and then ask AI to create a text followed by comma you could copy paste list of 1,3,5,7,9...all the way to 500 so you can paste into that "apply parent.." box. - Hope it works for you. let me know if not and I can help you troubleshoot some more :)

@@PrintDesignAcademy Thanks for your feedback, I'll try it!

Shoot that's a tough one, but basically there isn't an easy built in way to set them to descending. You could do a Data Merge at the very start on blank pages where you have an .csv file (excel) that has 1 column with your numbers descending (but you'd need to know the exact final page count) and then choose a text box for your where the Data Merge where the page # will be. You won't be able to do this after you've designed on them already unfortunately. It'd have to be done at the very start and even then if you wanted to move the location around, you'd have to do it individually on the pages. Up to you! Or just swap order in PDFs after you're done. Might be an auto way in Acrobat afterwards.

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Hehe :) Glad you found it helpful

Thank you!

So glad this was helpful!

much appreciated!

You can have the two artboards side-by-side and just export them regularly as a 2 page PDF. If you want to have some overlap on each design, just have each artboard overlap a little bit on the insides. Something like this: [ { ] }