Learn the top 10 practical tips for achieving consistently beautiful typography using the type feature set of Adobe InDesign. From how to choose and combine typefaces to how to create visual hierarchy, you'll leave this session a true type nerd — never able to ignore bad kerning again. In this session, Michael Ninness, senior vice president of product at lynda.com, will cover:• The anatomy of type and the relevance of x-height• Understanding leading and how it relates to type size and column width• The proper use of white space and break characters• Ligatures and small caps and kerning, oh my!• When to use special glyphs like em and en dashes, quotation marks versus inch marks, and so on

See how Adobe Edge Animate lets you extend your project into any realm of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Are you new to Edge Animate or JavaScript? Don't worry! Chris Converse, partner at Codify Design Studio, will provide free templates from the session material so you can try these techniques on your own.Join Converse to:• Learn how to take your Edge Animate compositions to new heights with randomized animations, hooks to your CSS rules, injection of custom HTML, and remote targeting of symbols • Take away some effective techniques for adding that professional polish to your compositions

The Oklahoma Sooner football team converted its print Gameday program to an iPad and iPhone app using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. The app heightens the reading experience through video and audio recordings of past games and extended stats and information on each player. The Sooners are leaders in re-imagining a print product on an interactive mobile device.

In this video you'll learn how to set up a new Illustrator document. We'll look at options in the New Document dialog box like Width and Height, Color Mode, and Transparency Grid.

Award-winning Chen Design Associates is known for their ability to bring their client’s stories to life in any medium. See why their early adoption of Muse (code name) is helping them to achieve new heights in the websites they create.

The measurement tool in Photoshop CS5 Extended can accurately measure distance, area and angels in your image but did you know that you can customize the scale that you measure? Colin will show you have to use these tools and accurately measure the height of our stand-in criminal Karl Miller. Also covered will be out to print our 1:1 so that measurements can be taken from printed outputs.

Publishing is changing, but quality typography, colour choices and layout skills still differentiate leaders. We're at the cusp of the next revolution in design and layout, and this master class will help you harness the revolution, as well as create your vision across multiple formats from traditional print to brand-new tablets. Expect not just mere how-tos, but elements and techniques that will raise your productivity to new heights and allow you to design like never before.

Publishing is changing, but quality typography, colour choices and layout skills still differentiate leaders. We're at the cusp of the next revolution in design and layout, and this master class will help you harness the revolution, as well as create your vision across multiple formats from traditional print to brand-new tablets. Expect not just mere how-tos, but elements and techniques that will raise your productivity to new heights and allow you to design like never before.

Take a deep dive into using CSS3 media queries to create websites that look good and work well on desktops, tablets, and mobile phones regardless of screen size. In this session, bestselling author and trainer David Powers explores how to optimize style rules for each type of device depending on its features, such as width, height, aspect ratio, and orientation. You'll also learn how to cope with older browsers that don't support media queries and how to avoid wasting mobile users' valuable data allowance by forcing them to download assets intended only for larger screen sizes.

See how page layouts automatically resize in height, growing as much as you need to accommodate the length of the content on each page of your site.