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When to Upgrade to Adobe CS3?

We’ve been getting a lot of calls and questions this last week about Creativetechs’ “official” recommendation to wait until June 2007 before upgrading to Adobe CS3. This recommendation was part of our presentation on March 28, 2007: Getting Ready for Leopard, CS3 and New Macs!

Now that Adobe CS3 has actually started arriving at many design studios, we’ve begun relaxing our initial cautious recommendations. As with all major new software releases, we’ve seen a number of odd bugs and issues that need to be addressed. However we underestimated the pressure in many studios to upgrade to CS3. Especially in studios struggling with the stability of InDesign CS2 or Illustrator CS2 on new Intel Macs.

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April 29, 2007
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Wednesday’s Fun: Seattle Broken Water Main.

Last Wednesday morning, a Seattle construction crew cut through a water main one block from the Creativetechs office. About the same time our office phone lines and DSL went dead, killing our main Internet access.

Yet, throughout this day’s drama, our office email kept flowing and we had full access to the Internet. Why? Because we had taken our own advice and already had a second, inexpensive backup Internet connection in place. Read that tip here: Keep your Internet up using two providers.

April 29, 2007
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Keep your Internet up using two providers.

Does your creative team rely on Internet to keep the business running? If any interruption in email causes major headaches, you might consider adding a backup Internet connection for your studio.

There are routers available that support dual Internet connections. For example, your office might have a primary high-speed connection, with a secondary inexpensive connection as backup.

A common example would be to install both Cable and DSL Internet connections simultaneously — making it less likely that both connections would be down at the same time.

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April 29, 2007
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Quickly change ruler units in Adobe CS apps.

Next time you need to switch from Picas to Inches in one of your Adobe Creative Suite applications, don’t go digging through preferences. Simply Right-Click on the ruler and pick your new measurement. This works in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator in versions CS, CS2 and the new Adobe CS3. Enjoy!
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April 29, 2007
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Pair your Apple Remote to a specific Mac.

Apple ships their new Apple Remote with every computer they make today. We’ve started hearing complaints from designers whose Macs go wacky when coworkers run a presentation using one of these ubiquitous devices. We’ve compiled links to a couple handy Apple Technotes that document how to pair a remote with a specific Mac (or Apple […]
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April 22, 2007
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Migrating from Expert fonts to OpenType.

Over the last several years Creativetechs has encouraged many creative teams to replace their team’s older Postscript font libraries with newer OpenType font collections.

In the past, old Postscript fonts couldn’t support a large number of characters. To get around that limitation, special “expert” font sets were created to provide designers with additional typographic features such as oldstyle figures, true small capitals, fractions, special ligatures, and others.

So, what if you’ve designed larger documents (e.g. annual reports) using special characters from the old “Adobe Caslon Expert” collection? When you convert over to the new OpenType “Adobe Caslon Pro”, certain typographic flourishes disappear.

This tip demonstrates how you can use InDesign’s advanced find-and-replace feature to help make your font migration an easier one.

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April 22, 2007
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Remove Photoshop CS3 Beta before installing CS3.

Some early adopters are experiencing problems installing their new copy of Adobe CS3. If you tested the public beta version of Photoshop CS3 on your computer you will see the following cryptic error when you try to install the full version:

“Adobe Photoshop CS3 cannot be installed because it conflicts with: Adobe Photoshop CS3”

If you’ve seen this error, you must first remove the beta version of Photoshop CS3. That takes more than simply trashing the application folder.

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April 21, 2007
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Quick Skin Tone Retouching in Photoshop.

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. […]
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April 15, 2007
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Avoid serial number headaches with CS3!

If you manage a creative team with even a few designers, we strongly recommend that you take advantage of Adobe’s Transactional Licensing Program (TLP) when you purchase Adobe software and upgrades.

Link: Adobe volume licensing made easy.

You’ll probably save money. Far more importantly you’ll prevent a future of serial-number headaches.

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April 8, 2007
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Hidden Easter Eggs in Photoshop 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.
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April 8, 2007
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