The Suite Spot » Archive for August 2009
Random Tip #7
If you’ve ever started making a selection using the marquee tools in Photoshop – wishing that you’d started it somewhere else – then all you need to do (while still ‘drawing’ – don’t release the mouse button) is hold down the spacebar and you can move the selection around to where you want it to be. Don’t forget also that you can transform any selection too – this feature is often overlooked – by choosing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photoshop
Creative Suite Shortcuts App
If there was one question I get asked all the time, irrespective of which application I’m training at the time, it would have to be, “How do I learn all the shortcuts?” Here’s something that might help; the Adobe Air Creative Suite Shortcut App I don’t think it’s going to put me out of a job anytime soon, but it is really good and might help! It is also a vast improvement on my first (and only) … Read entire article »
Filed under: General
Random Tip #6
Want a much larger preview of an image in Bridge and don’t want to open it? Simply press the spacebar and the selected image will jump to 100% or fill your screen (whichever comes soonest). Mac users (at least those using Leopard) can also get similar behaviour in the Finder (with PDF’s and most image files) so double-bubble! Don’t forget that you can become a fan on my Facebook page. … Read entire article »
Filed under: General
Lorem Ipsum for Photoshop CS4
Bournemouth-based designer Edd Fahy has created a handy Lorem Ipsum text generator panel for Photoshop CS4 (I ought to make my web acceleratore one available – watch this space) – ideal for graphic designers who need some placeholder text for a layout! Haven’t got CS4? Don’t worry, you can use the Lorem Ipsum Generator (or InDesign users could always use some placeholder text and paste it in). … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photoshop
Random Tip #5
If you use words or terms from other languages, URLs or particular names in your text and find it distracting that InDesign’s dynamic spelling is flagging them, then consider one of these approaches: The simplest way is to select the word/phrase/URL and then choose either the appropriate language from the menu in the control strip or choosing [no language] for something like a URL. A little more involved but perhaps slightly more elegant is to create the … Read entire article »
Filed under: InDesign
