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Apr 27

The 12 Best Sites for Designing a Brochure Online

Posted on Monday, April 27, 2009 in Design Tips, Desktop Publishing, graphic design

Designing and printing brochures from home, whether you’ve had plenty of experience or none at all, has been made very possible by helpful websites. The only problem can be knowing what tips you need and also what are the best sources for those tips. This is why the list below has been compiled - to give you the right tutorials and advice for designing a powerful brochure.

How to Create a Simple Business Brochure Using Microsoft Word
With pictures for every step, this tutorial for designing a brochure in Microsoft Word is very easy to follow.

Photoshop Corporate Brochure Design Tutorial
If you own Photoshop, you can easily design your corporate brochure using this tutorial. This design is for a half-fold brochure.

Create Brochures That Help You Sell in Publisher
For a basic brochure design, this tutorial from Microsoft Word is very helpful. It walks you through every step needed from start to finish for creating a brochure in Publisher.

Designing a Winning Brochure with Adobe Illustrator CS3
This article is great for a basic walk-through for designing a brochure in Adobe Illustrator. Although short, the tips are very helpful and point out what tools to use when creating your brochure.

The Complete Online Brochure Design Toolkit
With links for free stock photos, brochure templates, free fonts, borders, and more - this site contains all of the tools you need to design and print a professional brochure.

Effective Brochure Design: How to Create Brochures that Get Action
Although this is a very lengthy article, it discusses thoroughly everything you need to know when designing any type of brochure. Guidelines, content, layout, and a checklist are just a few examples of the sections in this article.


Trifold Brochure Design Tutorial
This site provides excellent images so that you can see what a tri-fold brochure should look like, both when flat and folded. It also walks you through the process step-by-step.

Designing a Professional Brochure
This article is easy to read with plenty of subheaders for a quick skim. Plus, the author talks about writing the copy of a brochure, another necessary aspect to learn.

Brochures Layout and Design
Some excellent tips and rules for designing a brochure. This article talks about the “one-third” rule, writing about features and benefits, and more very helpful guidelines.

Mix and Match Brochure
A tutorial for creating a brochure which can be used in several different situations. This design allows you to print only one brochure that will work for completely different prospects.

How to Write a Brochure: Advice from an Advertising Copywriter Excellent advice on writing copy for a brochure. The tips the author gives will help any beginner or experienced brochure designer to write copy that sells.

Trifold Brochure Writing Tips
This article gives very helpful guidelines for what content should be on which panel of a tri-fold brochure, along with some general design advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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  1. Hi, nice post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for writing. I’ll definitely be coming back to your posts.

  2. Hi, good post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for blogging. I’ll probably be subscribing to your site. Keep up great writing

  3. Thank you for including my illustrated trifold brochure tutorial with step-by-step instructions in your top 12 list. The tutorial includes free downloadable inside and outside templates for Xara Xtreme, also.

    It was a surprise to learn that the 8-1/2 x 11 trifold tutorial has been selected by several USA universities as required reading in graphic design courses, as well as some high schools.

    Thanks, again,
    Jim

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