Q. I notice an increasing number of font families containing an unusually large number of weights and/or styles. Are they genuinely useful or just overkill? A. Font super families are becoming more and more common in the world of digital fonts due to the fact that today’s font production software makes it easier to make […]
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This is a story about scaling and sizing objects? InDesign CS5 introduced the ability to resize and scale multiple selected objects using the selection tool and the shift or Cmd+shift (Mac) or ctrl+Shift (PC) keys.
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iStockphoto has released a plug-in that allows Creative Suite users to browse, place, download, and edit photos directly within applications like Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. The plug-in is free, and it works with both Windows and Mac in CS5 and later. Installation is a breeze. You simply download the plug-in from iStockphoto, unzip it, and […]
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An insightful look into what’s actually happening when you double-click with the Selection tool.
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I stumbled on a use for exporting some of the layers of my document as a JPEG. But I wonder if anyone else can use this technique.
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When you want to change the default stroke, you need to remember these few essential InDesign lessons
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When I was down at Adobe a few weeks back, I wrote about the graphics used in the launch of Creative Suite 6. It turns out I’m not the only one interested in the graphic treatments for not only the marketing of CS6, but also in the products themselves. While the periodic table-style icons are […]
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If you’ve been using Photoshop for some time, then you’ve used layers. Layers are the workhorse of your workflow. With them you do everything from silhouetting images, applying tonal adjustments, making comps, adding fills, and so on and so on. But with every version of Photoshop, Adobe adds more functionality to layers. In Photoshop CS6, […]
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Last week Adobe hosted its 2012 Digital Publishing Summit event, where the company unveiled several important new features of the Digital Publishing Suite. There were significant and welcome improvements, but the devil’s always in the details. So let’s take a close look at each of the six themes of the presentation. Content Viewer for iPhone […]
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