Adobe Shortcut Application

August 29, 2009 - 3:43 PM

Adobe has released a free AIR app that has the default keyboard shortcuts for 12 Creative Suite 4 applications. It’s a quick download from Adobe’s Air Marketplace site and installs in seconds.

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Gradients in Table Cells

August 29, 2009 - 3:08 PM

Quite a few peoplee get confussed and frustrated by the way InDesign applies gradients inside text frames. Yes, I know the topic is gradents in a table cell, but remember that tables are still always inside text frames.  When you apply a gradient swatch to anything in a text frame, InDesign “places” the gradient as though the gradient stretched across the entire frame.

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Adobe CS3 on Snow Leopard

August 27, 2009 - 3:42 PM

A lot of you may know that Apple is releasing Snow Leopard the newest OS for the Macintosh. From that a lot of quesions have come up on the older version of the Adobe Suite CS3. John Nack says "Adobe does no't officially support CS3 on Snow Leopard".

Now to find our more on what John has to say with updates from Apple working with Adobe Pho ... more...

Arrange Documents

August 25, 2009 - 10:11 AM

In the Design Standard CS4, package of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign you have the option of viewing your files using tabs, which is a feature that I love and happy to see Adobe adding the option to the tools I use every day. Another great feature is Arrange Documents. When you click on this icon in your Application Bar, you have the choice of viewing multiple op ... more...

How to Measure Social Media

August 18, 2009 - 11:48 AM

Any business can benefit from social media interaction when done correctly.
When measuring your social media ROI, the first step is to outline your goals to set a benchmark against which you can measure your success.

• Increase awareness

If you want quantitative results, the best way to measure the impact of a social media campaign is through analytics. Start off by reviewing the following:

• Incoming Traffic – track page views and incoming ... more...

Highlighting an Entire Paragraph with Color

August 18, 2009 - 2:41 AM

Rules are Amazing!

Recently someone asked me with help highlighting an entire paragraph. They were trying to use paragraph rules, but if the paragraph was not always the exact same number of lines, the colored background would break. The solution envelopes a combination of a custom underline and paragraph rules.

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Annotating PDFs in Preview

August 18, 2009 - 2:19 AM

You may already know that Preview is a terrific application for viewing PDF files. But did you realize it’s also great for annotating PDFs? It’s a fast and efficient way to share comments when collaborating on group projects.

With a PDF open in Preview, go to Tools in the menu bar, there you will find Mark Up and Annotate.Mark Up lets you highlight, ... more...

Drag & Drop from Apple Title Bar

August 11, 2009 - 9:06 AM

Just because you have a file open in Photoshop or Word or any other program, doesn’t mean you know where that file is saved on your hard drive. For example, you may have double-clicked on a file inside your email client and found yourself editing an image in Photoshop or an RTF document in Word.

But what if you now want to import that image or text file into Adobe InDesign? ... more...

Drag & Drop Layers Between Documents

August 11, 2009 - 8:49 AM

Layers enable you to do all sorts of things in Photoshop. You can even use them to copy layered imagery from one document to another. To copy layers between documents, drag and drop the layer from the Layers palette in the original document to the canvas in the target document. Then, use the Move tool to position the image in the target document while the layer is selected in the Layers palette.