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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
Adobe Illustrator CS2 Tip – Have Your Pick of Colors.
Did you know that there’s a “Photoshop like” Color Picker in Illustrator? Just double-click on the Fill box at the bottom of your Tools palette or in your Color palette and the Color Picker window will open. After picking your perfect color, click OK and drag the Fill box from your Color palette to the Swatches palette and Save it as a Swatch to use again and again.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip—Editing Goes Drag-and-Drop
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If you do a lot of text editing, once you try drag-and-drop text you can’t live without it. To see if this feature is enabled, go to your Type Preferences (InDesign [PC: Edit]>Preferences>Type), in the Drag and Drop Text Editing area, and click Enable in Layout View if it’s not already selected.
Now just select some text, click-and-drag that text, and drop it when an insertion point appears at your desired point. Cool and a lot faster then Cut and Paste.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Ever since the release of Adobe Lightroom for Windows users have been release I have been receiving emails on how to crop pictures. Many other website’s provide information but I can’t see any step-by-step tips on cropping. Well, lets see if this will help you needs guys/gals. This is how I usually publish my crops after working with my photo’s on ALR.
First you’ll need to open your image in LR “naturally”. On the top right you click on “DEVELOPE” and you will be taken to ADL’s editing section. Select the Crop Tool (located at bottom left) and make your adjustments. (more…)
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
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Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip—Find a Whole New World of Precision in Find/Change
After six months of writing Tips of the Day for InDesign, I uncovered another feature that I can’t do without. The Find/Change feature (Edit>Find/Change), which you can find in virtually all layout and word processing applications, is taken to a new level in InDesign. Hidden under the More Options button is a whole new world of precision editing that allows you to include type formatting and Styles in your Find and Change specifications. But my favorite part is that you can perform your Find/Change editing on all open documents at one time—a great way to ensure consistency in an ad campaign or a series of brochures.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
In the past 10 years in the Graphic Design Field I have had the pleasure in meeting many different types of Designers. Some have continued with success and others have given up and decided that taking orders at Rent-A-Center was their goal in life.
After many years in college they’ve decided that this profession is too hard for them. Too much involved for them! Life is better working 2 jobs and taking crap from people who constantly say “The Customer is always right” is okay for them.
Well my friend(s), if your thinking on quitting after many years of studying in this field and want a regular 9-5 then this article is not for you. [click here to leave]
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Here are a couple of tips I came across that can become useful down the line for all of us webheads 
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
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Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip—Clear Your Table of Extra Cells
One of my advertising clients supplies price listings of sale items in an Excel file which I Place as a Table in my InDesign layout. It’s almost inevitable that the Table will have an extra Column or two as well as some extra Rows at the end. So before I start formatting, I make a clean sweep of the extra unneeded Cells.
With the Type tool active, move your mouse up toward the top of the first empty Cell at the top of the first empty Column until you get a heavy down arrow. Then click-and-drag to the right to select all of the empty Columns. To delete them, go to Table>Delete>Column. Next, select any extra Rows at the bottom of the Table by moving your cursor to the first empty Cell on the left of the first empty Row of the Table until you get a heavy arrow pointing into the Row. Click-and-drag down the empty Table Rows all the way to the bottom of the Table. To delete the Rows, go to Table>Delete>Row. After this quick Cell cleanup, you’re ready to format.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
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Adobe InDesign CS2 TipÂ
Calculating the Number of Listings Automatically.
You’ve Placed a listing of products with prices from Excel as a Table with each item and its price in a separate Row. There are hundreds of listings in your Table, but how can you figure out the exact number without counting them manually? With the Type tool active move your mouse up toward the top of the Table’s Column until you get a heavy down arrow. Click to select this entire Column.
Then take a look in your Info palette (Window>Info) for a Line count which should equal your number of listings (as long as there are no empty cells). It takes a fraction of a second, but who’s counting?
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel.
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
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Adobe InDesign CS2 Tip –Selecting Some, But Not All, Text.
Selecting all text in a Frame is easy. With your I-bar cursor active in your text, press Command + A (Control + A on PC). To select a single word, double-click the word with your Type tool. Triple click to select a whole line. Clicking four times anywhere in a paragraph will select the whole paragraph. But what if you want to select several consecutive paragraphs? You could click and drag from the beginning of the first paragraph that you’d like to select down the text to the end of the last paragraph of your selection. But you have to be careful to place your cursor at the very beginning of the first paragraph. Is there a faster way? (more…)
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