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InDesign Quick Tip: Indent To Here

Friday, August 14, 2009

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.

Photoshop Quick Tip: Finding Layers Quickly

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Photoshop Quick Tip: Finding Layers Quickly

Quickly find the Photoshop layer an object is located on by enabling an option on the Move tool.

Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity

Friday, July 24, 2009

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Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: So you’re a visual designer who wants to suck up to a certain front-end hat guy. Wouldn’t it be a great gesture to clean-house and organize your file so the slicer doesn’t ‘slip’ and accidentally butcher your brilliant work? Some firms carefully distingush the roles of visual designer and [...]

Photoshop Tip: Sharpening with Photoshop’s High-Pass Filter

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Photoshop Tip: Sharpening with Photoshop’s High-Pass Filter

Need to give an image a little boost? Whether it needs a bit more contrast, or needs to be sharper, Photoshop's High Pass filter can add a dynamic result without spending too much time.

Create A Photoshop Tool Preset for Custom Text

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Create A Photoshop Tool Preset for Custom Text

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I tag all my artwork posted online with a minimum of my website URL, and usually with copyright info. I wanted to set up an easy way to add this in Photoshop to each image without having to go to the Type tool, type the text, size it, etc. [...]

Quick Tip: The Adobe Exchange

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Here’s a quick tip for all you Adobe software users out there: The Adobe Exchange. What is it? The Adobe Exchange (which seems to have recently been renamed to the Adobe Marketplace & Exchange) is a community resource to share and download lots of extras for your Adobe software [...]

Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting what you want from your client

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

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Thoughts on Design Integrity. Getting what you want from your client

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: You’ve just been given a project and the client has made a list of demands that will surely result in a total design failure. Your integrity as a good designer is on the line… …WHAT DO YOU DO? Manage the client’s expectations BEFORE the project brief is even written. [...]

10 Tips to avoid designer’s block.

Monday, October 20, 2008

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Ever feel like some days you can crank out amazing looking designs with little effort? Then on other days it feels like nothing is working, you’ve lost all your talent and you’ll never make another good design for the rest of your miserable life? Don’t panic – this is [...]

First Look: Adobe Illustrator CS4

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

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Thirteen versions and twenty-one years after the very first Illustrator, Adobe is rolling out beta versions of Illustrator CS4. After so many iterations, you might wonder what Adobe could possibly do to make Illustrator CS4 worth the cost of the upgrade. In this preview, I am going to highlight the most noticeable changes with big [...]