Here is a quick Photoshop retouching tip that came up this month with a Seattle design studio. While working on a piece for a local non-profit, one digital photo was suffering from color problems in the skin tone highlights. This particular image turned out to be a great example of a common photo retouching technique. […]

In honor of the holiday, we’ve compiled a collection of hidden Easter Eggs for Adobe Creative Suite. This set is for Adobe InDesign CS2.

In honor of the holiday, we’ve compiled a collection of hidden Easter Eggs for Adobe Creative Suite. This set is for Adobe InDesign CS2.

In honor of the holiday, we’ve compiled a collection of hidden Easter Eggs for Adobe Creative Suite. This set is for Adobe Illustrator CS2.

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.

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?

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.

Adobe will launch formally announce Adobe Creative Suite 3 at a special event in New York on March 27. (Update: The software will not ship until later in Spring 2007.)

This will be the first Universal Binary version of Creative Suite, and Adobe is calling the event the largest software release in its history. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to finally buy that Mac Pro, this could be it.

While we wait, enjoy an Adobe UK video teaser: What’s in the Box?

This is one of those tips that is hard to describe or visualize. But when we demonstrate it to someone new, we usually hear “Wow, that’s cool.”

Adobe Acrobat Pro includes a special OCR (Optical character recognition) feature you can use to convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs. The twist with Acrobat Pro is that instead of converting your scan to a straight text file, you can leave the visual appearance of your scanned document untouched, and yet the text itself becomes selectable and searchable in Acrobat.

If you find yourself needing to quickly remove the background from an image in Photoshop, take a moment to play with the background eraser tool. (Click-and-hold on the eraser in Photoshop’s tool pallet to choose this tool). The background eraser samples the color in the center of the brush. It deletes that color and softens […]