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!
Ok, that’s funny!
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.
You’ve probably heard, Adobe announced yesterday that the company will focus all of its creative software development efforts on its Creative Cloud offering moving forward, thus killing off the boxed tools previously known as Creative Suite. It’s a move everyone saw coming, though I had guessed it wouldn’t happen until after CS 7.
There’s a lot of misinformation and assumption going around, so before you get frustrated and fly-off the handle, here are the prices and some facts.
I know. You’re probably thinking “just type the page number in the Print dialog box.” But that only works when your pages are numbered in the default method where page one is actually the first page in the document. This isn’t always the case. Many times, you’ll have a multi-page document where you’ve used the Numbering & Section Options in the Pages panel and the page numbering doesn’t start until (for example) page six—to accommodate a cover page, table of contents and intro pages. So how do you print “page one” which isn’t actually the first page in the document?
Here’s a quick tip to allow you to print the page you want.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to smooth out (mute) highlights in your portrait using some simple Photoshop techniques.
For some odd reason Adobe removed the slider for the Transparency panel some time ago, and replaced it with a mostly useless drop-down menu of 10% increments. While many users certainly aren’t happy about this, they probably don’t know that you can adjust transparency more precisely than the drop-down menu allows using keyboard shortcuts.
