A Collection of Cheat Sheets for Print Designers
Imagine for a moment that when you wake up tomorrow you realize that you are late for your Print Design class, and as you arrive, flustered from your rushed jaunt to just make it before the class gets underway, only to discover that you are having a pop quiz! Okay, so we know that is not entirely the likeliest of scenarios, and that while most of you will not be facing down a print design pop quiz any time in the near future,
we still felt a relevance to compiling a list of helpful cheat sheets for all designers hanging their hats in the print arena. So we did. Below is an assemblage packed with useful information to aid in all your print design projects. We hope that they come in handy for you whether you are staring through unsure eyes at a pop quiz or not.
Cheat Sheets
Color Codes Matching Chart HTML (Convert CMYK, RGB Hex)
Keyboard Shortcut Cards – Includes Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator CS, Macromedia Freehand, Cinema 4D and 3D Studio Max
QuarkXPress Cheat Sheets – Available for QuarkXPress 7 & 8 for Windows and Mac
Illustrator CS4 and CS3 useful downloads
Illustrator Pen Tool Cheat Sheet
Illustrator Shortcuts – Available for CS3 & CS4 for both Windows and Mac
InDesign Cheat Sheet – the most important tools we will use with InDesign
InDesign CS4 and CS3 useful downloads
Come on, we know there are other cheaters out there. What are some of your favorite cheat sheets for print design that we may have missed! Fire back in the comments and let us know!
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November 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
This is great! I did always love a good cheat sheet; this is heaven. ;) Thanks, Rob!
November 15th, 2009 at 1:29 am
:) Glad that you like it, Erika!