by Anna Cruz

Created on: May 07, 2009

When it comes to designing print materials, bold and vivid graphics is what will make your large poster or custom brochures stand out. Anyone can find free stock photos online, but not everyone knows how to effectively take these photos and execute stunning effects, that is, until both professional and amateur designers began posting tutorials online. Then again, after all the designing you've done, you're still faced with the suspense of sending these amazing designs to print. To help you out in your designing and printing dilemma, below are some of the best printing tutorials available, both for designing for print and preparing your documents for print. Some offer a range of tutorials for beginners to experts.

Pixel2Life
This website contains tutorials for nearly any design program, including InDesign, Photoshop, and more. Find printing and design tutorials, including Pre-flight Checking in InDesign.

GraphicFetish
For dozens of tutorials for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, turn to GraphicFetish. With an easy search tool, you can find the design and printing tutorial that you need to create professional and attractive graphic designs.

PrintCreate
Find over a dozen graphic design and printing tutorials on this incredibly browse-friendly website. You can also find a handful of inspirational articles for print design such as posters and brochures.

My-Photoshop.com
This site includes Photoshop tutorials for print design along with Acrobat tutorials, including making your files more manageable before sending to print.

How to Prepare Files for Print Using QuarkXpress
AllGraphicDesign provides a very large list of tutorials for everything you will need to know about QuarkXpress and preparing your document for print.

Adobe Print Tutorials
Find some excellent print tutorials on Adobe.com. Search through their print tutorial archives for even more help with print design.

EyesOnTutorials
This website contains tutorials on nearly every Photoshop design topic and is organized by effect topics, such as Designing, Drawing, Photo Effects, Text Effects, and more. Plus, check out this article on print design techniques.

Blog.SpoonGraphics
Learn to create different print designs from the many tutorials available on this site. For setting up print materials to allow for crops and bleed, use this tutorial.

Ai Tutorials
Try this website for a variety of tutorials for most popular design software. With tutorials for beginners to the more advanced designers, there's sure to be a tutorial useful to any designer regardless of experience.

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