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Lighten a color without changing its hue or saturation (Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) The Adobe Color Picker allows you to select foreground, background, and text colors in Photoshop. To open it, simply click on the Foreground or Background box in the Tools panel. By default, the H (Hue) option button is selected, so you can select a color [...] We recommend turning on Smart Guides (View > Smart Guides) as you work with a gradient mesh. Smart Guides will help you visualize the relationships between your meshes as you draw them. To renew the mesh for additional color information when using Smart Guides, you must click the Direct Selection tool on a path–not an [...] Using digital sticky notes on your files (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) Did you know that you can attach notes to your Photoshop files without exiting the application? Well, you can. The next time you have a file that’s going to be modified by another designer or reviewed by someone else, and you want to include a note, just [...] As I reflect on 2009, I realize that while it brought struggles for many organizations and individuals, we can look back on the year positively and see a year of insights, innovation and new developments. At New Horizons, we focused on finding new ways to help our customers be more efficient and effective by increasing the [...] Adjust the tracking of your words and separate letters (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) Did you know that when typesetting in Photoshop you can fine-tune the spacing between letters or words in your document? Well, you can. To do so, after setting your text, open the Character panel by clicking the Toggle The Character And Paragraph Panels button on [...] Rotating and moving patterns in filled objects (Illustrator 10/CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) If you’re drawing objects in Illustrator and filling these objects with patterns, chances are your patterns don’t always line up the way you expect. You can move and rotate the pattern inside the object. Choose the Direct Selection tool and select any part of your illustration that [...] (Photoshop 7/CS/CS2/CS3/CS4) Layer blending allows you to control the range of light or dark pixel values in the active layer and in underlying visible layers that appear in your final image. Among other things, you can use this feature to remove a dark background from a light image or vice versa. To remove a range of dark [...] Unless you have Adobe Acrobat Professional, you can’t edit PDF files. You can, however, open PDFs in Photoshop CS2/CS3. But what if you just want to repurpose an image that’s in a PDF file? No problem! To extract an image from a PDF: Duplicate your file to avoid saving over the original Create your own style by merging graphic styles (Illustrator CS/CS2) Although Illustrator has a library of graphic styles to choose from, you can feel limited with your choices or you may like some elements from different styles. One way to expand your library of graphic styles quickly is to create additional styles by merging existing [...] |
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