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Layer Lifter for InDesign

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Layer Lifter is a simple, free Adobe InDesign plug-in from Rorohiko that offers an alternative method to using the layers palette for moving objects between layers. Using it couldn’t simpler: first select one or more objects on a spread, and then right-click (Win) or control-click (Mac), and pick a destination layer from the LayerLifter context [...]

Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Kaleidoscope: Text & Image Comparison Utility

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Kaleidoscope for Mac is an interesting new file comparison utility. It looks to be a great tool for both web developers as well as designers, and as far as I know it’s the first utility of it’s kind to do image file comparison. The app is super snappy, and [...]

Blank Canvas: Photoshop, Crashes & RAM

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: “Photoshop crashed!” I see this cry all over Twitter, on blogs, in web comics — you can’t go anywhere online that has a tangential relationship to Photoshop without seeing this complaint. So why is it that Photoshop never crashes for me? I’m not bragging or anything, but instead actually [...]

ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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ForeverSave: Versioned File Backup for Mac

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 work in InDesign. What [...]

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 and save file versions and get file [...]

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 within InDesign, and feel [...]

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 you should know. 1. Create a [...]