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!
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There are numerous other places that this works – try the technique with text in the story editor inside of InDesign, with a path in Photoshop, or with an appearance attribute inside of Illustrator, for starters.
Some of the apps allow you to repeat the last operation, too. In Illustrator, for example, alt-drag a duplicate and then use the transform again shortcut cmd-d (that’s ctrl-d on Windows) and see that you rduplicate is repeated. Do the same thing in Flash only this time the shortcut is cmd-y or in InDesign cmd-alt-3.