This week’s creative tip is one of those handy shortcuts you can use all the time. As basic as it is, a lot of us missed this feature along the way. In many Adobe application (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), hold down the Shift key while dragging a guide to snap to the nearest ruler mark. The […]

Back in January 2007, we published a tip showing how to use PDF watermarks to add studio-branded “proof” stickers to the PDFs you send clients (Add proofing messages with PDF watermarks). That’s been a popular tip over the last year. This week we’d like to provide an updated tutorial showing how you can do the […]

Last year we published a tip about Adobe dropping development and support for Macromedia FreeHand (Goodbye FreeHand. But is Illustrator Enough?). In that tip, we argued that most die-hard FreeHand users are happier and more productive switching to Adobe InDesign rather than Illustrator. Since then, we’ve been looking for a method to help designers migrate […]

Saturday was Groundhog Day. In a national media event, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, leading the groundhog to forecast six more weeks of winter. And speaking of shadows… Have you ever found yourself with a Photoshop image that has an object’s shadow on an opaque white background, when what you need is that same shadow […]

Most in-house creative teams face the issue of corporate images scattered throughout their department. Each designer ends up with a different assortment of photos they’ve compiled over the years. Collections of photos end up stored in individual project folders — even if those same images end up linked later to a dozen other projects.

Over the last several years at Creativetechs, we’ve helped a lot of in-house creative teams develop image management and keywording strategies get control over their unwieldily image collections. In the end, they create something like their own private in-house stock image library.