As a service for Seattle-area creative teams, we are offering a complimentary strategy session with Creativetechs’ lead consultant Craig Swanson. Take this opportunity to map out your creative team’s upgrade strategy for this complex series of upgrades.
InDesign Quick Kerning, Tracking & Leading.
This InDesign tip may be a bit basic, but it did elicit a small “wow” of appreciation from at least one seasoned QuarkXPress user who hadn’t discovered the keyboard shortcuts to quickly tweak kerning, tracking, and leading in InDesign CS2.
Don’t touch your Mac during Software Updates.
This tip’s headline is a bit alarmist — so let us clarify. When you are running software updates, or installing new security patches, you shouldn’t do anything with your Mac while it’s running through the last “Optimizing System Performance” phase of a software update. Launching applications while your Mac is performing this last phase of […]
Photoshop Techniques circa 1995!
Digging through an old server in the Creativetechs network closet, we unearthed copies of Photoshop Techniques — a newsletter we published years ago in the younger days of Adobe Photoshop.
With all the buzz in our office around Adobe’s upcoming launch of Creative Suite 3, we thought it would be fun to dust off the old files and publish the whole collection in PDF format.
Remember when a beveled edge took four pages of detailed steps?
Manage multiple libraries in iTunes 7.
Apple slipped a nice bonus into their iTunes 7 upgrade: The abiliity to easily manage multiple music libraries. Switching libraries is simple; hold down the option key on your Mac (or shift key in Windows) when you launch iTunes. You’ll be presented with an option to create a new library or choose the library you […]
DST changes and Microsoft Entourage.
We’ve been getting calls this week about updating Microsoft Entourage for the new Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes this year. We probably should have run this as a tip a week ago. Here it is now: Microsoft Entourage 2004: Update your copy of Entourage to at least version 11.3.3. Download the latest patch from Microsoft […]
Free software training in Seattle.
Update: All the free sessions have been snatched up. If you missed out, drop us an email us at at training@creativetechs.com. If there is enough interest, we might add a couple more days to Jason’s schedule.
In February, Creativetechs welcomed Jason Hoppe into our growing support team. Jason provides high end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and other creative workflow management consulting.
Many of our clients aren’t yet used to calling Creativetechs when they need software training or production support. So to kick things off, we’re offering free training sessions for our Seattle-area membership clients:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
QuarkXPressAdobe Acrobat
Studio Color
Management
E-Pro Workflow
(General)
E-Pro for Microsoft
Vendors
We’ve set aside 4 days through April, and have 16 11 7 5 4 only 2 no more open slots (sorry). We’ll come out to your office. You pick the 1-hour session of your choice. This offer is open for all current Creativetechs member clients.
Not a Creativetechs member client? You can still qualify for a free session — but there is a catch. Read on for full details.
Stop Entourage background disk churning.
Here is a great tip if you are having problems with regular hangs/pauses in Entourage — especially with hangs that slow down your Mac with extended periods of heavy unexplained disk activity. Particularly noticeable for people with large 1GB+ mail databases. You can reduce disk churning by using a somewhat hidden option to turn off […]
Get to know InDesign’s Info Palette.
InDesign’s humble Info palette may not inspire a lot of interest at first. But take a moment to explore some of the handy details it provides. Once you get used to the variety of information it can display you’ll be heading there all the time.
To show the Info pallette, choose Window > Info from the top menu bar.
The information displayed in this palette changes depending on the object you are working with in InDesign. You can use the Info palette to quickly check the printing resolution of placed graphics, get a quick word count on text, or other handy details.
Digg This Button Cheat Sheet
About a month ago, Digg announced new “Smart” Digg buttons on the Digg blog. You’ve seen them before — the familiar Digg badges that appear next to some blog entries showing how many Diggs a particular post has received. There is an example with a skimpy number of Diggs shown at the left for this […]
