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Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Free download, Adobe Air application that allows you to look up keyboard shortcuts for any Adobe software. Well, at least Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Encore and Acrobat Pro. The shortcuts are only for the CS4 versions of these applications.

Print Technique: Reflecting on Strike-Through Varnish

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Print Technique: Reflecting on Strike-Through Varnish

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: When most of us want to add additional flair to our print project, we automatically look for elaborate finishing processes to help us accomplish this, forgetting that a well-designed spot varnish can really take the perception of quality and design up a few notches. [...]

Design Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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Design Process: “Sick” Metal Band T-Shirt

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This is the first in a new series we’re going to run on Go Media ‘Zine: Design Process. We’re going to throw an imaginary project at the Go Media designers, and ask them to give us an overview of how they would approach the project. Not so much a [...]

Faking Depth of Field in Photoshop (w/Ps action)

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Faking Depth of Field in Photoshop (w/Ps action)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Here’s a quick technique that I use to fake depth of field in Photoshop and add realism to my images. I’ve seen this technique mentioned in various tutorials I’ve read, so it’s really nothing new. But it’s a good trick that I feel [...]

Quick Global Swatches In Adobe Illustrator

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Quick Global Swatches In Adobe Illustrator

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Global swatches in Adobe Illustrator: they’re awesome. If you’re not aware of the power that is a global swatch, they are special color swatches that are applied like regular swatches, but when the swatch is changed, all vector objects [...]

Aged Type Effect in Photoshop (w/Ps Action)

Monday, September 14, 2009

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Aged Type Effect in Photoshop (w/Ps Action)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: While working on the poster for DIT Fest last week I managed to create an impressive text effect that I will likely reuse for awhile. It’s very subtle and does not look like a filter. I’m simply adding a slightly aged, worn, or [...]

Preparing InDesign Files for your Print Service

Monday, September 7, 2009

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Preparing InDesign Files for your Print Service

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Often times when it comes to preparing files for a printer it can get really complicated really fast. Often times when I’m creating a design there are a lot of elements that I use in a file, most of which are images and fonts. It’s [...]

Using Transform Again in Illustrator

Friday, September 4, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This shortcut will help you in many different instances in Illustrator when you need to repeat a transformation. I use it most when I am trying to repeat a shape over and over again at an even interval. First create a shape [...]

InDesign Quick Tip: Indent To Here

Friday, August 14, 2009

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Use the Adobe InDesign "Indent To Here" feature to indent bulleted lists and indent lines in a paragraph independently of a paragraph’s left indent value.