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Follow the Yellow Brick Road
For this yellow brick road, we need multiple wavy dashed lines. But InDesign will only let us use one stroke style per stroke… Learn how to expand your strokes and apply multiple stroke styles in sequence.
Continue readingTobacco Branding Banned Down Under
Once again, there is news of graphic design being the subject of a high court case. Just a few weeks ago the Michigan State Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of 14 pt type allowed a petition to put a question regarding the nature of state government on ballots this fall. Now, from half a […]
Continue readingHow to Avoid Jagged Type With Illustrator’s Save for Web
Q: I have been using Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create typographic images for the web by using the Save for Web & Devices… option. When I upgraded to CS5, the images looked really jagged, as if anti-aliasing was turned off. I poked around in Preferences for a solution, but could not find anything that might […]
Continue readingSwitch Lenses in a Flash with the Quikdraw
Photographers on the go may soon have a new gadget to aid them in the struggle to carry and quickly switch multiple lenses. The Quikdraw is a belt-mounted lens holster that allows a wearer to keep multiple lenses hanging on their waist, ready to switch at a moment’s notice. With the Quikdraw, your lenses will […]
Continue readingThe Final Frontier of High Resolution Printing
When it comes to printing, what does the term "high resolution" mean to you? Is it 300 dots per inch? 600? 2400? How about 100,000 dots per inch? Now that’s high res, by any standard. It’s ten times higer than the highest resolution inkjets and laser printers are capable of. And in fact, it turns […]
Continue readingAdobe Creative Cloud Upgrade Offer Ends, New Features Begin
The $29.99/year upgrade offer for Adobe Creative Cloud expires on 8/31 but new features arrive this week.
Continue readingA Special Package for Illustrator Users
Among the benefits of membership in Adobe’s Creative Cloud are immediate access to feature enhancements in Creative Suite apps. Soon, subscribers will see the first such enhancement: the ability to gather up and report on all the resources needed to work with and output an Illustrator CS6 document. InDesign users have long had the ability […]
Continue readingFree For All Grab Bag: Fonts, Icons, QR Codes, and Illustrator Goodies
Adobe Illustrator Plugin SubScribe Designer SubScribe Designer is an extraordinarily useful—and therefore surprisingly free—plugin for Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS4, CS5, and CS6. (Note: At the time of this writing, the CS6 version is only for Mac, though the CS3–CS5 is available for Windows. Here’s hoping they catch up with a Windows CS6 version soon.) Serious […]
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