“Indent to Here” in InDesign or Quark.
Ever find yourself wanting to create a quick hanging indent for a drop cap or bulleted list? The special “Indent to Here” character in QuarkXPress or InDesign makes it a snap. Type this character in a text block and all remaining lines of the paragraph are indented to that point. To make things easier, Quark […]
Clean Out Old Email Attachments.
Both Microsoft Entourage and Apple’s Mail application retain attachments even if you have saved them to another location on your hard drive. Plus, these mail programs keep copies of all the attachments that you’ve SENT to other people.
You can slim down your mail archives by removing old attachments you no longer need. Seperate instructions are included for both mail programs.
Reset a lost Mac OS X password.
Many times every month we get calls from designers or IT managers who need to reset a lost administrative password on Mac workstations. Apple has provided an easy method to reset a lost password — although you’ll need to have a Mac OS X Install CD/DVD to take advantage of it. We’re posting this short […]
Create a “Yellow Highlighter” style in InDesign.
Here’s a light InDesign tip for any designers finding themselves cranking out the occasional old-school direct mail letter. You can easily create a “yellow highlighter” character style with InDesign’s Custom Underline feature. While the effect itself is a bit cheesy, the technique does let us demonstrate a few shortcuts using InDesign’s character styles.
August 90-Minute Mini-Workshops.
Starting in August, Creativetechs is offering weekly, mini-workshops every Wednesday morning in our office.
Here’s the pitch: Join us Wednesday mornings at 9:30am, pick up a couple new skills, and get back to work before lunch. You can put what you learned into use the same day. The cost is $50 per workshop.
How to change Photoshop’s canvas color.
Photoshop provides a neutral gray canvas around your images when you work in full screen mode, or when you zoom out so the image is smaller than your document window. Have you ever wished you could change the color of this default grey? There’s and easy way, and although most people don’t know the trick, […]
Email Your Current Document.
Here is a fun one. You can send any open document as an email attachment by simply dragging the icon in its title bar onto the icon of your email application in the Dock. Make sure to save first. Try it!
What’s New in Adobe CS3 – the Booklets.
A couple months ago our production and training guru, Jason Hoppe, developed a great series of “What’s New in CS3” booklets for our summer workshops at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts. If you missed out (or don’t live in the Seattle area) here are the PDFs for you to download: What’s New in Photoshop CS3.pdf […]
Photoshop CS3’s Automatic People Remover.
Two weeks ago we ran a tip on how to remove unwanted people from public photos. Apparently, it’s a popular topic — that post received almost 20,000 visitors in the first 10 days. Less than a week after publishing that tip, I ran across another technique using Photoshop CS3 Extended that makes the process virtually […]
Photoshop People Remover – The Video.
Here is the Creative Sweet TV podcast that was a partial inspiration for this week’s tip: Photoshop CS3’s Automatic People Remover. Australian trainer Mike McHugh is the host of this entertaining and informative Adobe CS3 Podcast.
