If you want to be great at anything, whether it’s baking bread, shredding guitar solos, or juggling cats*, you have to practice. A lot. And when it comes to a creative art like photography, where the results depend both on your technical mastery of your gear and your aesthetic sensibilities, the value of practice is […]
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I’ve been working with multi state objects (MSO)s for quite sometime now and one of the things I’ve found with larger MSOs (those with five or more states) is that it can be a pain to identify them with their simple default names of “state 1,” “state 2,” etc. True, you get a thumbnail, but […]
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How to make a realistic flag on any background with the design of your choice.
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I recently encountered a bug in InDesign’s stacking order when exporting to Interactive PDF. Apparently, I am not the only person having this issue, so I wanted to pass along the news and a fix. I created a layout in InDesign that contained several layers, and objects that had been converted to buttons. In this […]
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When they hear the name Extensis, most creatives probably think of fonts, since the company is well known for premier font management solutions like Suitcase Fusion. And indeed, with the number of fonts squirrelled away on our hard drives, almost all of us could use some degree of font management. But creatives do not live […]
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Missed Blatner’s Adobe MAX talk about InDesign-to-Tablet solutions? Watch it and download the slide presentation here
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• How to publish in more than one language
• How to share a DPS app with a group (bypassing the App Store)
• Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Swap Fill and Stroke
Photoshop users have been enjoying the ability to shuffle around layers since version 3.0 was released in 1994, right around the same time as the debut of the Power Mac, O.J. Simpson’s infamous ride in a white Ford Bronco, and Justin Bieber being born. If you’re a geek of certain vintage, that last one may […]
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If you’re a Camera Raw user with a high-resolution monitor you should head over to Adobe Labs, where the Camera Raw 8.1 and DNG Converter 8.1 Release Candidates have been posted and are available for download. Camera Raw 8.1 offers support for HiDPI capable displays (like the Mac’s Retina displays), plus bug fixes, new lens […]
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