The Graphic Mac
InDesign CC has been completely updated under the hood to offer better performance, more stability, and a modern architecture to support the growth of exciting new features for years to come. CreativePro has a first look at the new Adobe InDesign CC (Creative Cloud) version due in June.
It’s an old article covering Adobe InDesign CS5, but Secrets of the InDesign Control Panel is worth taking a look at because almost everything still applies to InDesign CS6 today.
There’s two ways to apply strokes to shape layers in Photoshop CS6 — via layer styles, which have been around since version 6 (that’s the ancient version 6.0, not CS6), or via the all-new vector shape options. They may appear similar at first glance, but there’s some significant differences.
Bjango has put together an excellent post on getting higher quality strokes in Photoshop CS6 that’s definitely worth a quick read!
Open a Finder window (Finder > New Finder Window) and then choose View > Show Path Bar. The Path Bar appears at the bottom of all your Finder windows, showing the complete path from your computer to the current folder. At first glance, that’s all the Path Bar does. But as Sharon Zardetto points out in her article, it can do a whole lot more!
Ok, that’s funny!
SmashingApps has put together a link list of 40 useful cheat sheets for graphic designers covering everything from standard HTML, CSS, and Photoshop shortcuts, to standard envelope and postcard size charts.
I guess I’m so used to media making things up about Apple and their products that I completely missed the original Bloomberg article. But I did catch CNN calling them out on it!
Folks, I can’t stress enough how important it is to take a good long second look at your layout. If you don’t you could end up in one of these design disaster posts.
Peter Nixey talks about 5 things that would make managing photos better in the Apple ecosystem. I agree with all five points.
Photoshop Etiquette is a site dedicated to offering some best practices for web designers using Adobe Photoshop. Of course, many of the tips are applicable for print designers as well.