This was brought to my attention by a friend at EBSCO Media.
The scenario: You’ve created a dieline in Adobe Illustrator, which uses the manually created global spot color “Dieline.” It’s set to, say, a fluorescent green for easy identification.…

This was brought to my attention by a friend at EBSCO Media.
The scenario: You’ve created a dieline in Adobe Illustrator, which uses the manually created global spot color “Dieline.” It’s set to, say, a fluorescent green for easy identification.…

You may not have considered this, but software has to be regionalized to accommodate multiple languages. As you might expect, translating technical terms and interface components can be a challenge. But it’s important to make it easy for end-users to…

I’ve uploaded a Zip file containing two Photoshop exercise files and a PDF step-by-step guide to help Photoshop users overcome their fear (or hatred) of the Pen Tool. Here’s the link on the Practicalia website. It uses some simple geometric…

I’ve uploaded a Zip file containing two Photoshop exercise files and a PDF step-by-step guide to help Photoshop users overcome their fear (or hatred) of the Pen Tool. Here’s the link on the Practicalia website. It uses some simple geometric…

Maybe I’m just resistant to change. But I don’t care for the new drag-&-zoom feature in Photoshop CS5. I believe Nature intended for you to drag a zoom marquee to enlarge an area of the photo, and it’s an old…

When you’re building complex Photoshop files, Layer Comps… are a great way to store the visibility of layers that constitute versions of the image. For example, if Layers 1, 3, and 5 are Version A, Layers 2, 4, and 6

JUST TO CLARIFY: This is only true for images in which the first layer comp hides some effects (aka layer styles). If the first layer comp only involves hiding some layers…, without hiding any effects, all is well. It’s

Yes, those rumors are true: Creative Suite 5 is on the way!
You can sign up here for the April 12th announcement and online presentation (8:00am PDT/11:00am EDT)  of fabulous new features. Use your Adobe ID to register, or create…

If you’ve ever had to silhouette a girl with windblown hair, you know what a challenge it can be to create the perfect mask. I’ve always used channels, duplicating the best one and using Levels, Curves and judicious handwork to…

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Don’t you just love the tabbed document display in Creative Suite 4 applications?
If you do, you’re in the minority, judging by the number of people who ask “How do I change that?” often followed by “What were they…

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Don’t you just love the tabbed document display in Creative Suite 4 applications?
If you do, you’re in the minority, judging by the number of people who ask “How do I change that?” often followed by “What were they…

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Don’t you just love the tabbed document display in Creative Suite 4 applications?
If you do, you’re in the minority, judging by the number of people who ask “How do I change that?” often followed by “What were they…

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Don’t you just love the tabbed document display in Creative Suite 4 applications?
If you do, you’re in the minority, judging by the number of people who ask “How do I change that?” often followed by “What were they…

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Don’t you just love the tabbed document display in Creative Suite 4 applications?
If you do, you’re in the minority, judging by the number of people who ask “How do I change that?” often followed by “What were they…

The Smart Text Reflow feature in InDesign is quite useful: if you add more text to a multi-page story, new pages are generated at the end of the story, avoiding overset text. It’s on by default: you can turn it…

Productivity can be cool: InDesign CS3 and CS4 allow you to select multiple files in the File>Place dialog, and this is a great way to get multiple text and graphics files into the page quickly.
But did you know you…

My thanks to Bob Bringhurst of Adobe Systems for adding a comment to the earlier post. I thought it deserved its own post, since he was kind enough to share: Bob’s blog post is here….
In the circumstance that

If you generate a Table of Contents in a file (or book) in InDesign, hyperlinked bookmarks are automatically generated when you export to PDF with Hyperlinks and Bookmarks… options checked in the export dialog. Bookmarks make it easy for readers

In previous versions of InDesign, if you dragged a frame containing a graphic to a Library, the library item would be named by the filename of the graphic in the frame. If you dragged multiple objects, the group was just…