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Sidestepping the Banana Skins: How to Avoid Common Type Mistakes in InDesign
Sidestepping the Banana Skins: How to Avoid Common Type Mistakes in InDesign

Don't make yourself easy prey for the type pedants out there who will mock you for using an opening quote mark instead of an apostrophe. While rules are made to be broken, Nigel French, author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign, 3rd Edition, offers ten rules of InDesign type that you should (almost) never break.

Working with Natural Light in Portrait Photography
Working with Natural Light in Portrait Photography

Natural light doesn't always mean pretty light. In this chapter from Portrait Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Erik Valind explains that once you understand what you're looking at, it becomes very easy to compose your portraits to put your subjects in their best light.

Color Correction in Nuke
Color Correction in Nuke

Nuke is a very advanced system that uses cutting-edge technology and theory to work with color. Therefore, it is important to understand Nuke's approach to color so you understand color correcting within Nuke, as Ron Ganbar explains in this chapter from Nuke 101: Professional Compositing and Visual Effects, 2nd Edition.