Hands-on Practice 22: Working with uImage - Regular Photoshop Template
This practice will introduce the three types of Photoshop templates, and how to start a design from scratch then use it within the InDesign template.
Audience: New users, using the uCreate Plug-in for InDesign to create variable data templates for personalization or customization.
Learning Prerequisite: Basic Adobe Photoshop and InDesign knowledge.
Practice Takeaway: How to build a simple Photoshop uImage template document and use that with the uImage function in uCreate.
Learning Materials: TBD
Learning Objectives:
- Explore XMPie Marketplace for ideas and to review design concepts.
- When is using uImage better than using InDesign (and vice versa).
- Create a simple photoshop design.
- Setup the text and tag the design.
- Use layer styles to apply special effects to the text.
- Explain how bounding boxes affect copy fitting within uImage templates.
- Discuss the different types of document packages.
- Discuss how and when to use Actions and other export options.
- Export a "Regular" document package (PSD-dpkg).
- Use the PSD-dpkg with the uCreate uImage function.