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ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Although it rarely happens to me, I see tons of Twitter friends posting about their Adobe software crashing while working on a file. InDesign has a pretty robust temporary file feature that usually saves what you were working on, however that’s only useful if you [...]

Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Timeline: Version Control Plugin for Photoshop

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Timeline by PixelNovel is an interesting version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. As far as I am aware, there’s really nothing else like this out there for Photoshop users. Timeline allows you to save and review a file’s history [...]

Adobe Shortcuts App – Free Download

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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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.

Scale Objects in Adobe Illustrator Via Keyboard

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Scale Objects in Adobe Illustrator Via Keyboard

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I’m a big fan of resolution-independent vector art. I’m also a big fan of keyboard shortcuts. It’s been driving me a bit batty that there is no way in Adobe Illustrator to scale objects using just the keyboard. I use this method all the time [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]