Tom Fishburne’s Brand Camp Cartoons.
Use Photoshop’s Background Eraser Tool.
Update your Mac for Daylight Savings Time.
In 2007, several countries change the dates on which they observe Daylight Saving Time (DST). In the United States, all states except Arizona and Hawaii will begin observing Daylight Saving Time on March 11.
Your computer may need to be updated to adjust for these changes. Apple has released updates to fix this problem. If you’re running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.3 (Panther) use your Mac’s Software Update feature (Apple Menu> Software Update…) to automatically download the new DST update.
Shortcut Cheat Sheet for Safari & FireFox.
Fast way to straighten a photo in Photoshop.
What’s the fastest way to straighten a crooked or tilted photograph? This is one of those classic bread-and-butter Photoshop tips that sometimes slips through even the most experienced designer’s bag of tricks.
Select the tape measure tool (it shares space with the eyedropper in Photoshop’s toolbox) and drag a line across part of your image that should be straight horizontal or vertical. Then choose Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary.
Photoshop auto-calculates the value required to straighten your image. Click OK and your image is all squared up.
Open MS Word 2007 .DOCX files on a Mac.
In Office 2007 Microsoft introduced a new file format called the Microsoft Open Office XML Format (.docx). This format is not compatible with older versions of Microsoft Word. The Mac version (Office 2008) isn’t expected to ship until the second half of 2007.
So far this month, several clients have called to ask how to open, convert, or place Word 2007’s new .docx file format on a Mac. For the next couple months, this issue will be a problem for many Mac-based studios.
Here are some conversion options for now:
Test your web design in different browsers.
CreativeTechs welcomes Jason Hoppe.
Creativetechs would like to welcome the newest member of our growing support team: Jason Hoppe.
Use a scroll wheel to zoom in Adobe Photoshop.
Fixes for Stuffit Expander and missing files.
You’ve recieve a Stuffit archive (.sit) that contains crucial files for your project. But when you expand that archive, Stuffit Expander ends up giving you an apparently empty folder, or only shows a couple of your needed files.
This is one of those problems we get a lot of calls about from frustrated designers. Certainly more designers suffer in silence.
In this tip we’ll not only explain what’s going on, we’ll give you three easy ways to fix the problem for good!
