New Years Resolutions for Photoshoppers
After reading all the posts on the net about the “Year in Review”, I thought it would be good to have a “Year in Preview” for Photoshop Users. This is my list of things to look forward to in 2009 and...
View ArticlePhotoshop 3D fix
Ok, I know a lot of you have not used the 3D feature in Photoshop, or have had issues with bringing in the really cool Collada files from Google 3D warehouse. If you are not aware, when you currently...
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C2 Gallery Night Returns – with Community High School!
The “Layers – Distilling Excellence” program is a collaborative effort with C2 Graphics and Community High School showcasing students work using Adobe Photoshop. The images explore both the internal...
View ArticleRecent CS4 Updates
(this is a repost from John Nack at http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/) In case you’ve missed it, the CS4 versions of Flash, Fireworks, and InDesign have received updates in the last couple of weeks. Flash...
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Designing Consistent Form Elements with Acrobat Professional
Form Elements Designing forms in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9 is easier than before with its new form isolation mode, but it can still be a tedious process. For example, if you are creating a series of...
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Noha Edell at InDesign User Group
For those of you unable or unaware (shame on you) of last night’s InDesign User Group Meeting with Noha Edell from Adobe here are some highlights and some helpful links. The topic was long document...
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Helpful Reminders about Adobe Photoshop CS4
As people are (finally) upgrading to Creative Suite 4, I thought it prudent to recap some of the more important tips. 1. DO NOT do an upgrade install. This will cause you a lot of headaches (been...
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Saving your images inside InDesign for the web
When placing images inside InDesign they usually begin their life at 100%. Unfortunately they rarely stay at 100% because of the constant scaling that is involved in the design process. Normally this...
View ArticleLetting InDesign’s Spellcheck Ignore Lorum Ipsum
When you use Lorum Ipsum (placeholder text) inside your InDesign and run spell check, InDesign will find every single word misspelled which can be aggravating. Learn how to avoid this issue with the...
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Automatically Placing Illustrator CS4 Artboards inside InDesign
A wonderful new feature of Illustrator CS4 is the ability to create multiple artboards. When you place an Illustrator CS4 .ai file it will default to the 1st artboard (page) of the file. If you want to...
View ArticleFlex 3 – Tips & Tricks!
Common Mistakes with Cairngorm. I have been using Cairngorm (CG) for awhile now, on various projects and teams with some fair amount of success. CG is great with the scalability and function it...
View Article$5 Friday – THIS Friday! Join us!
3d is the new “desktop publishing.” With a small investment in software and training, clients can be served with visualizations, marketing pieces and web animations that might otherwise have to be...
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Importing a Powerpoint file into InDesign
Susan Writes: “How do I convert a PowerPoint into a format where I can reformat it and bring it into InDesign. I need to reformat the slides and make them look not like a PowerPoint.” It seems logical...
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InDesign’s Hidden Scripts
Adobe InDesign has a bunch of really useful scripts that many users may not be aware of. While scripting can sound scary, you only need to double-click your mouse to run a script. In order to run the...
View ArticleWe Want to Know What YOU Want to Know!
Our 2010 $5 Friday series starts up again in January and C2 wants to pick your brain! What do you want to learn more about? Hot topics? Industry trends? Simply comment on our blog, with any and all...
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Future of Web, Interactive, and Motion Graphics: Eisner Museum Talk
On Wednesday, four panelists spoke at the The Eisner American Museum of Advertising & Design about the broad topics of Web, Interactive and Motion Graphics. I was lucky enough to be one of the...
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The InDesignSecrets Print & ePublishing Conference-PLUS a C2 Discount!
Join C2′s own James Fritz, the world’s top InDesign experts and members of the Adobe InDesign team, May 12-14 in Seattle for the InDesign event of the year! Find answers and valuable insight on the...
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Screen Modes in the Creative Suite
The Adobe Creative Suite has a variety of options for switching between screen modes. If you are going to be showing a client a design on your screen, it can be distracting for them to see all of your...
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InDesign Tip: Import Options
When you place anything into Adobe InDesign (text, graphic or table) a commonly overlooked feature is import options. It is located in the lower left hand corner of the place dialog box. If you choose...
View ArticleFlowing Text with Adobe InDesign
Learn how to use Adobe InDesign’s ability to automatically flow text into your document.
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