The second day of the conference went even better than the first.
I didn’t get to see any of the other speakers’s sessions as I was stuck in my own for most of the day. But our tips and tricks session at the end was loads of fun.
Richard Rönnbäck started the ball rolling with Branislav Millic’s world-famous tip on how to use Registration color to create editable text with an image within. Then he showed a variation using his own user-defined color for more effects. I always thought Richard was an older guy. Turns out he is. He just looks much younger.
Jan Suhr did some cool tips on exchanging colors using ASE files.
Kirsten Helge complained that Richard stole the tip she was going to do. But then showed some excellent tips on how to apply special effects such as drop shadows and feathers to first line drop caps.
We arm-twisted Nini Tjader into coming up and doing some tips. She entertained everyone with a load of ID Easter Eggs including the Friendly Alien and stroke effects.
But my total favorite effect was Richard’s second set of tips on working with layers.
He started off by showing a document with all sorts of specialized layer names. How do you quickly, and easily add those layers to new documents. Richard showed how to apply an object to each of those existing layers.
Then he showed how to grab all those objects and convert them into a snippet.
Then he turned on the Paste Remembers Layers command in the Layers palette.
Once they were in snippet form, the snippet could be dragged onto any new document. With Paste Remembers Layers on, the snippet automatically created the correct layers.
Cool!
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on February 2, 2007
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