 GUEST BLOGGER: Cristian Easterly, Applications Instructor When designing a website, one of the most important things to keep in mind is, “Is this site easy to use?” There are a few ways to make sure your site will be easy to use for your target audience. First, you need to know your target audience. Who [...] GUEST BLOGGER: Cristian Easterly, Applications Instructor
Adding a blending mode to a layer can add a quick effect to a photo or logo design in just a few simple clicks of the mouse. Think of it as blending two layers into each other. The two most commonly used blend modes are Multiply and Screen. They darken [...] If it’s a spot color, there’s a really simple way to identify it. You can identify process colors, too, but it’s a bit more complicated. To identify a spot color in a PDF: You can quickly check the dimensions of an open image without opening the Image Size dialog box. To do so, select the Crop tool, and click Front Image on the tool options bar. The Width, Height, and Resolution of your image are displayed in the tool options bar’s data fields. Discover the benefits of becoming an [...] Find lost anchor points with the Stray Points command (Illustrator CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) As you create a complex drawing using Illustrator, it isn’t unusual to have a single anchor point or two floating around on your artboard. This can happen because of an accidental click or if you deleted all but the last anchor point on [...] Why use an effect over a filter? (Illustrator CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) There are a few advantages to using an effect over a filter. For one, an effect doesn’t change the original vector object at all, allowing you to quickly edit the effect. In contrast, filters permanently change objects. Also, you can target and adjust effects [...] Get a quick preview of a large file—open a composite version (CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) Isn’t it a pain when you have to open a big, multi-layered file just to take a quick look at it? For example, you may need to sample a color from a multi-layered high-resolution TIF or PSD file, but don’t want to wait for [...]
Print SLUGs Get your non-printing slugs to print (InDesign CS2/CS3/CS4/CS5) A slug is an area on the pasteboard in an InDesign document in which you can type comments to your printer, coworkers, etc. You can specify slug parameters in the Bleed And Slug pane of the New Document dialog box as you create a new [...] Where, Oh, Where Did My Favorite Fonts Go? (Adobe Creative Suite 5) If text in your Adobe Creative Suite (CS) 5 documents reflows after upgrading versions, there’s a good reason. Upon installing a newer version of Adobe software, newer versions of fonts are installed in the default system font directory. If older versions of these [...] Quick Fix for InDesign CS5 Button Glitch A known issue in InDesign Creative Suite (CS) 5 has to do with the new Live Corners feature. You may find that this feature does not present itself quite the way it is supposed to when working with rectangular interactive buttons. Live Corners lets you apply corner effects to [...] |
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