Random Tip 33
This week a really basic random tip is how to make quick duplicates in your Adobe Design Premium apps. I am often surprised to find so many people are completely unaware of this basic skill so here it is presented in video, and in five apps! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Podcast
4T.23 Code View Toolbar
If you’ve never noticed them before, there are a set of buttons that run down the left side of the window in Dreamweaver’s code view; I meet a lot of people that either glanced at them but paid them no attention or haven’t noticed them at all, and they’re really useful! Probably because of the dominance of CSS, an increasing number of designers (I’m mainly talking graphic designers who do web work here)away from the WYSIWYG interface and into the code environment, so if you fall into that category, then you might be surprised at just how useful this toolbar is. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Dreamweaver, Podcast
4T.22 Sorted
Ever have a list of things that need sorting into alphabetical order? Text arrives here quite often that needs just that and that’s where the Sort Paragraphs script in InDesign comes in so useful. Scripts are sometimes known to become unresponsive in InDesign and this is due to the User Interaction Level property (this gives you the dialog boxes attached to the script – if any) has been switched off either accidentally (or negligently) by another script. The solution is to run another script which resets that property and you can download it here. Tip of the hat to Dave Sawyer who provided the original source code. … Read entire article »
4T.21 Photomerge
This feature is another of those that has been around for a while now (although it has been enhanced, of course) but still isn’t in the wider photoshop ‘vocabulary’. This episode is a brief introduction into using this feature and invoking it either from inside Photoshop or Bridge. … Read entire article »
