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Russell and Julia have been sharing techniques for using design software more efficiently for a long time, on various platforms, around the world. Now they are consolidating a lot of what they know into one site, Digiversity.tv, so you have one place to go to learn how to build files better.

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All work and no play..., well, you know the saying. But when Julia and Russell play, it can oftentimes look a lot like their work. Whether taking photos, writing a story, designing a brand for a non-existent company, or creating a children's book, there is almost always a lot of creative effort involved.

Portrait painting and photography
Illustration - digital and mechanical
Film photography
Storytelling
Sculpting
Logo creation - for real companies, or not
Fun package design
Cooking
Bike building
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Involvement

Sometimes coaching from the sideline isn't enough. In times like that, Russell and Julia jump on the field and join your team in playing the game. That can include building documents, creating templates, art direction, fixing documents, designing graphics, and more.

Proposal graphics lead
Proposal graphics support
InDesign template creation and audit
Illustrator template creation and audit
Custom, live, online training and support
Document art direction
Corporate brand identity creation
Publishing and production workflow analysis
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This Just In!

A delightful mix of fun tips, exciting news, and a dash of pure nonsense!

Julia Viers
September 25, 2024
Art

Free Digitoh!rial! The Digital Brush Masterclass with Julia

In this comprehensive step-by-step Digitoh!rial, Julia guides you through every detail of crafting stunning ink and shader brushes for Inktober. Or, if you're feeling a bit lazy, you can simply download them!

Learn how to make your own Digital Ink Brushes for Inktober
Russell Viers
April 12, 2024
News

Newspaper Technology Roundtable Replay

The premiere of the first Digiversity.tv Newspaper Technology Roundtable is now available for you to rewatch.

Topics and questions we're covering in this Episode:

  • InDesign's new Feature "Style Packs" and how to format a story with the click of a single button and how to use this new features across documents and your team
  • Designing custom bullet lists in InDesign
  • Adobe Fonts and how to install them to your computer and activate them in your documents
  • Setting up global preferences in InDesign
  • Adding color Swatches and Gradients globally to all new InDesign Documents
  • Adding global Paragraph Styles in InDesign to all new Documents
  • Q&A: Can I get more Colors Swatches from Adobe?
  • Create your own Adobe Swatch Exchange File (ASE)
  • Extract Color from Art in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop's new Generative Fill Feature
  • Adobe Illustrator's new Art to Live Text Feature
  • Q&A: Converting RGB Ads to CMYK?
Julia Viers
April 11, 2024
Tips

Practicing color the playful way

In order to better recognize colors when painting, it is important to practice color studies. Recognizing subtle nuances and understanding color contrasts is something that comes with practice and experience. But if you don't have time to do a color study every day, there's a fun puzzle game I like to play to train my eyes and learn to see colors. It's a mobile game called Hexagon of Hue and is available for both Iphone and Android.
It starts out pretty simple, but soon you will have to distinguish a higher number of color swatches with less contrast and saturation. Its highly addictive to play and can improve your color intuition pretty quickly.
It's also free!

Julia Viers
September 25, 2024
Art

Free Digitoh!rial! The Digital Brush Masterclass with Julia

In this comprehensive step-by-step Digitoh!rial, Julia guides you through every detail of crafting stunning ink and shader brushes for Inktober. Or, if you're feeling a bit lazy, you can simply download them!

Learn how to make your own Digital Ink Brushes for Inktober
Russell Viers
April 12, 2024
News

Newspaper Technology Roundtable Replay

The premiere of the first Digiversity.tv Newspaper Technology Roundtable is now available for you to rewatch.

Topics and questions we're covering in this Episode:

  • InDesign's new Feature "Style Packs" and how to format a story with the click of a single button and how to use this new features across documents and your team
  • Designing custom bullet lists in InDesign
  • Adobe Fonts and how to install them to your computer and activate them in your documents
  • Setting up global preferences in InDesign
  • Adding color Swatches and Gradients globally to all new InDesign Documents
  • Adding global Paragraph Styles in InDesign to all new Documents
  • Q&A: Can I get more Colors Swatches from Adobe?
  • Create your own Adobe Swatch Exchange File (ASE)
  • Extract Color from Art in Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop's new Generative Fill Feature
  • Adobe Illustrator's new Art to Live Text Feature
  • Q&A: Converting RGB Ads to CMYK?
Julia Viers
April 11, 2024
Tips

Practicing color the playful way

In order to better recognize colors when painting, it is important to practice color studies. Recognizing subtle nuances and understanding color contrasts is something that comes with practice and experience. But if you don't have time to do a color study every day, there's a fun puzzle game I like to play to train my eyes and learn to see colors. It's a mobile game called Hexagon of Hue and is available for both Iphone and Android.
It starts out pretty simple, but soon you will have to distinguish a higher number of color swatches with less contrast and saturation. Its highly addictive to play and can improve your color intuition pretty quickly.
It's also free!

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If you've relied on PDF proofing workflows in the past, this new feature of InDesign could make things a lot easier for you.

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This question from Mark wants to know what to do when you have an object that has Text Wrap applied and you try to put text over it...and it disappears.

Essential
Advanced
Power User

Yes, it's true that Adobe is killing support for Type 1 fonts in January of 2023. Don't get caught off guard. See the many options for you in this Episode.

Essential
Advanced
Power User

Do you open PDFs in Photoshop to convert to CMYK or Grayscale? There are other tools and techniques that may give you better results.

Essential
Advanced
Power User

Time to play a little joke on our Photoshop using friends with a simple setting in the Rectangle Marquee Tool.

Essential
Advanced
Power User

I LOVE showing this “trick.” Many of us create colors with overlapping colored frames and transparency. But how do we find out the color values of the transparent areas? Check this out.

Essential
Advanced
Power User

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Meet the Cast

These are not paid actors. Our Cast have been doing this a long time. Not just the training, but also working as professionals in the industry, in many facets of graphic design on thousands of varied projects.

Julia Viers

Graphic Designer & Illustrator

Julia Viers is a freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and concept artist with a diverse range of styles and visual language. She is known to put a lot of effort, detail, and knowledge into her presentations and projects to educate other designers and illustrators.

Russell Viers

Third Chair Trumpet

I'm just a guy who was lucky to have made MANY mistakes creating files since 1987...and learning from those mistakes. Always trying to find a better way, I've learned the techniques you see in these videos on real projects over 35 years (plus many more doing paste-up).

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