You’re a photographer. OK, even if you’re not, just say you are for now. You’re spending the day in some interesting urban setting, people watching, and snapping some great images for your portfolio. But in order to make those images commercially viable, you have to secure legal model releases from the people in the photograph. […]
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Pros: Huge advances in the ability to resize layouts, alternate layouts can be housed in one document, PDF form tools, auto-sizing text frames, EPUB, HTML, and PDF enhancements. Cons: Some of the new features are complex and come with a steep learning curve, some need more refinement. No improvements on footnotes and other existing long document features. […]
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If you like taking photos and video wherever you go but wish you had a way to create better lighting, you might want to check out a product called the Kick by Rift, Inc. The Kick is a wireless device roughly the size of an iPhone that provides lighting effects for photos and video. It […]
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A tiny bug in the creation of text forms in CS 6 allows Required fields to be submitted or printed without being filled in.
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The File > Share My Screen option is missing in action in InDesign CS6. Here’s what to do about it.
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My favorite type era is definitely the Seventies, which I’ve written about before here and here. It’s not just the popular styles of the era that I like, but the way type was set back then seemed, well, different. For one thing, type tended to be set much tighter than it is today, with letter […]
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Can you make InDesign add pages automagically, like a Word processor? Absolutely!
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Need some color inspiration? Have an Android phone or tablet? Then Makan Studios’ Real Colors app might be just the ticket. The app allows Android users (version 2.1 and up) to create and edit color palettes based on their photos. Real Colors comes in two versions, Lite (free) and Pro ($4.99, on sale through June […]
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Extensis has updated the font management tool Suitcase Fusion to make it compatible with the Adobe Creative Suite 6. Users of InDesign, Illustrator, and InCopy CS6 can now browse and manage their fonts from a panel within each of those applications. Photoshop users will have to wait a little while longer, as Extensis reports the […]
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