Workflow Assistance

Personalized Training Videos

Expand your training library with customized ‘How-To’ movies that can be viewed 24/7. These movies provide detailed steps that are specific to your workflow.

 

Documentation

Keep your staff in sync with documented procedures that train current and future employees. We work with your subject-matter expert to develop documentation that follows your specific workflow. We will also tech-edit your existing software documentation for accuracy and simplicity of flow.

 

Workflow Assessments

Streamline production workflow with a review of your prepress procedures. An assessment can refine or eliminate steps and suggest third-party utilities to automate the process or work out kinks.

 

Hands-on Assistance

 

Project Management

Put our expertise to work on your next large project. We consult, help manage, and can even refine your workflow. New procedures can be augmented with comprehensive training techniques.

 

Template Creation and Automation

Let us develop structured templates based on your designs. Styles will be created that allow your staff to efficiently format placed text. Master pages and object styles are implemented to simplify the process by supplying automation and uniformity to your page layouts.

 

Temporary Design Help

Just ask us–we most likely have the skill you are seeking! We have made silhouettes, color corrected and retouched images in Photoshop, designed page layouts with InDesign, and created art and logos in Illustrator. Our design services–from concept to completion–are prepared to accurately output for print or PDF.

 

Consulting

Technical Editing and Beta Testing

Technical Editing of new software curricula and releases for major publishers.

 

Online Tutorials

Script Development for Migrating from Quark to InDesign, Managing Fonts in Mac OSX with Extensis Suitcase, Adobe Acrobat 5, Acrobat 6*, Acrobat 7, Acrobat 8, InCopy, Long Document, Advanced Quark, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.

*Our Acrobat online training won PDF Zone’s ‘Image Impact’ award!