Hands-on Practice 23: Working with uImage - More Template Types and Options
uImage templates can support their own dynamic images (uImage images), which also provides the ability to use images as fonts (image fonts templates). uImage templates can use layers with single letters (separated letters templates) and can apply different types of fitting along. Using Actions allows, allows even more flexiblity uImage templates. This practice explores more uImage options and template types.
Audience: Template designers and other variable data production designers.
Required Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and XMPie uCreate (preferably the latest versions).
Learning Prerequisite: Basic Adobe Photoshop and InDesign knowledge. Must have completed Practice 23.
Practice Takeaway: How to build other types Photoshop uImage templates.
Learning Materials: TBD
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss using the different types of templates.
- Build or work with a seperated letters template.
- Work with an image font template
- Show how to modify an image font template
- Discuss or use the other options available for templates.
- Optimization
- Photoshop Actions (vs scripts)
- Using Illustrator (if applicable)