There don’t seem to be enough print related tutorials online, so in this round up I wanted to cover as many print specific articles as possible. I also wanted to mix in some that weren’t directly print related, but that help create print related products like movie posters, ads, cd covers, etc.

The tutorials in this post cover the use of Photoshop, InDesign, and even Illustrator. I think when learning about print it is important to understand how to use the programs that are designed for print such as InDesign, and not just using Photoshop as a default application for everything. That’s why I tried to round up as many good InDesign tutorials as possible.

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Create a Five-color Magazine Cover using a Spot Metallic

This is a great tutorial that shows you how to create a professional looking magazine cover and not one of those lame fake magazine cover that doesn’t even look like a real magazine. You know what I am talking about.

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Create a Vibrant Drink Ad

This is some text describing the image if needed, and why it was chosen. Usually 2-3 sentences in length.

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Planet Terror Style Movie Poster

Create a grungy movie poster that mimics that of the popular movie, Planet Terror.

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Design a 6 Panel CD Package Tutorial

In depth tutorial on how to create a full 6 page cd booklet and not just the cd case cover.

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From Dull Digital Photo to Sweet Old School Album Cover

Simple tutorial that shows that you can take even the most boring picture and turn it into a cool retro cd cover.

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Design a Cool Outlaw Flyer with InDesign Tutorial

A InDesign tutorial that walks you trough the process of creating a flyer using stock graphics, InDesign, and other elements.

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Prepare your InDesign files for print production

An older article by Adobe, but still provides a number of timeless tips for getting your files ready for print production.

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Create and Print a Brochure with Photoshop, Indesign and UPrinting.com – Part 1

A multipart tutoiral that shows you how to use Photoshop and InDesign together to create a print brochure.

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Your Own Crazy Movie Poster

In this tutorial you learn how to create a mock movie poster of the popular movie Pirates of the Caribbean.

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Preflight checking in InDesign

Tips for using and tweaking things with Preflight in Adobe InDesign.

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Rich black versus plain black

A nice article/tutorial that covers the difference rich blacks and plain blacks. If you don’t know the difference, you should check out this post.

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Printing in Photoshop CS4

This is a really good video tutorial about how to properly print files from within the new version of Photoshop CS4.

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Design a Ready to Print Brochure in Photoshop

This is another tutorial that teaches you how to create a print ready brochure using nothing more than Photoshop.

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Political Poster Art in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to create an artistic and political poster with Photoshop.

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Design Business Cards in Adobe InDesign

A simple tutorial that shows you how to use InDesign to create your business card layouts and designs.

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Creative Uses for Paragraph Rules in InDesign, Pt 1

This is a really neat article that shows you some clever tricks for using paragraph styles in InDesign.

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Creative Uses for Paragraph Rules in InDesign, Pt 2

Part Two of the really cool article from above! More cool ideas for paragraph styles.

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ACE InDesign and a Few Tips I Picked Up Along the Way

A great article that has some basic tips and advice to make you a star at InDesign and create amazing print media.

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Design a Professional Laptop Advert

A popular tutorial that shows you how to create a magazine style laptop ad with a pretty cool end result.

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InDesign Project — Bleed and Layering Master Pages

This is part of a series by Creative Curio covers how to use the various areas of InDesign properly and professionaly.

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InDesign Project — Lists, Tabs and Final Details

This is part of a series by Creative Curio covers how to use the various areas of InDesign properly and professionaly.

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InDesign Project — Working with Text and Images

This is part of a series by Creative Curio covers how to use the various areas of InDesign properly and professionaly.

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InDesign Project — Setting Up Master Pages and Styles

This is part of a series by Creative Curio covers how to use the various areas of InDesign properly and professionaly.

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How to use Photoshop to create Product Box?

In this tutorail you learn how to create the infamous product box that you see all over the web. This seems to be one of the better ones out there.

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CD Cover Design

Here is another cd cover tutorial that uses Photoshop to help you create a graphically powerful cd cover.

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Sleek Phone Advertisement Flyer>

Im not sure when cell phones ads starting looking like this, but here is a good tutorial that shows you how to mimic this style.

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Linkin Park Album Cover

Here is a cd cover tutorial that shows you how to create a cd cover simialr to one of the Linkin Park cds.

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Gig Poster Design

Here is a high quality tutorial with an awesome end product. Leanr how to create a retro look concert poster.

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Cardboard And Torn Paper Business Card

With this tutorial you learn how to create a professional business card with a rough paper texture look to it.

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Making a grungy business card

Who says grunge can’t look professional? This business card tutorial shows you how to create a slick grunge business card.

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Designing a Cover Using Spectrograms>

The name says it all. this photoshop tutorial shows youhow to create a cool album cover using spectograms.

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Stencil Poster Effects

Here is another high quality tutorial that shows you how to create a really cool effect. The end product is an awesome looking poster.

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How to Create a Hannibal Style Movie Poster

A simple movie poster tutorial that shoes you how to create a Hannible like movie poster in just a few steps.

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Design a Print Ready Business Card for Designers

Chris shows you how he created his very own business card, front and back. A neat tutorial witha coolfinished result.

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Business Card Design Project Walkthrough

Another interesting tutorial by Chris that covers the business card design process from start to finish.

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B Movie Post Art

One of my favorite tutorials on this list; this tutorial shows you how to make a really cool vinatge b-movie style poster.

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Abstract Poster Effects

This is a cool poster tutorail that shows you how to make some cool abstract effects.

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Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster

Here is a popular poster tutorial that shares with you the secret to recreating to popular Obama poster.

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Create New Business Card

Tutorial master Abduzeedo shows us how to create a web 2.0 style business card that is super slick.

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Design a Sleek Nature Themed Phone Advert

Lastly, we have another cell phone ad that uses a nature theme and abstract elements.

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