As you have likely heard, PePcon was amazing last week in Chicago. My head is spinning from all the great conversations and tips I learned. Of course, Adobe also had their big 2014 announcement… information about that and many other articles here: Curious about what’s new and different in InDesign CC14? You probably saw Steve […]
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The first part of Everyday Actions in Photoshop showed how to create a very simple action to add a Drop Shadow style to a subject, and then separate the shadow and move it to its own layer so you can modify the shadow in ways a Layer Style won’t let you. In Part 2, you’ll […]
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In the latest episode of InDesign Secrets on lynda.com, David Blatner shows an amazingly simple and effective way to create transparency masks in InDesign. With David’s technique, you can use live, editable text as a mask to punch a hole in an image and reveal what’s beneath it. There are a few ways to do this […]
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Adobe may have moved towards a program of rolling updates with the Creative Cloud, but it continues to provide major upgrades – as with the 2014 edition of Photoshop CC. Among the new features are some very clever ways of working with type, more intelligent Smart Guides, and a couple of useful new blur filters. […]
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During this year’s PePcon conference, Adobe released a brand new version of the Creative Cloud applications. Referred to as the 2014 release of the Creative Cloud, this update provides new versions for all of the Creative Cloud applications including Adobe InCopy. The 2014 Release of InCopy CC offers some great new features that I think […]
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The folks at Rorohiko never cease to amaze me with the cool and useful add-ons they create for InDesign. One relatively new such item is SwatchWatch, a free script you can use with InDesign CS5 and later to create a grid of color swatches in your documents. Interestingly, SwatchWatch also serves as a “Case Study” in […]
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Editor’s note: This article summarizes the most important changes in InDesign CC 2014. A more in-depth look at all of the new features will be published in issue 63 of InDesign Magazine. For the first time in a year, Adobe now has a major new release of InDesign for Creative Cloud subscribers. There are features for everyone, whether […]
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Images where animals or people bust out of their background are very popular, and it’s easy to see why: the results can be very dynamic, adding a tremendous sense of movement. The technique is called Out of Bounds, and here’s how you can create it using any version of Photoshop. It’s not hard, and it […]
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