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About Cathi Stevenson
Expertise
I can answer questions about the layout, formatting and design of book covers, in addition to helping people understand licenses and find sources for stock art and fonts.
Experience
I have been working in the publishing industry since 1981.
Organizations
Small Publishers Association of North America.
Education/Credentials
I have a degree in Behavioral Psychology and English, which helps me greatly in my design work. I have also worked in a print bindery, affording me hands-on experience in the production end of the industry. For eight years, I worked as a writer, copy editor and layout editor for the advertising department of a major newspaper.
Since starting my own company, I have created approximately 1000 book covers for large, traditional publishing organizations; small presses and independent publishers. My clients have been featured in numerous high-profile media sources including Oprah, 48-Hours, People Magazine and the Today show.
Awards and Honors
Several, but two recent awards include a perfect score of 5/5 from Writer's Digest and a tie for second place in the Bay Area Independent Publishers' Association 2008 Book Awards.
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Expert: Cathi Stevenson - 8/16/2008
Question
How do I center text between 2 guides?
Answer
To set text horizontally centered in Illy CS, I:
1. Pull my guidelines into place.
2. Use the type tool and create a type box where the left is at the left guideline and the right side is at the right guideline that you want. You will know you are dead-on because the type tool cursor will change color when you're directly over the guidelines. The middle of my type tool cursor flashes red. You can also adjust the position of the text box after the fact.
3. Type in your text.
4. Then go to WINDOW/TYPE/PARAGRAPH and choose the "center" option which is along the top, where you'll see little lines representing text placement: flush left, center, flush right, justified and so on. Make sure the text box is "active" (click on it) before clicking the center option.
Another way to ensure text is 100% centered on a template or artboard, is to first change the text to outlines (so you are not dealing with leading and spacing, vertically)by choosing TYPE/CREATE OUTLINES. Then go to WINDOW/ALIGN. Now, if you want to line two or more elements, just click on them all (hold the shift key down on a PC) and choose the alignment formatting you want. If you want it all to align to the template or artboard, then click on the little arrow on the upper right of the align box, and a flyout will appear — choose ALIGN TO ARTBOARD. If you don't want everything to shift position on the artboard, then make sure that option does not have a check mark beside it.
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