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Tips & TricksThe Top 10 Vector Plus Tutorials of All Time: By by Skellie | July 4, 2009 Vector Plus launched in late September 2008. Since then it added dozens of tutorials and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Check them out
Indesign Tip: By Jeff Witchel | July 3, 2009 When you go to Type>Find Font in CS4, you can learn a lot more about how and where particular fonts are being used. All you have to do is press the More Info button in the Find Font window to reveal just about anything you might need to know about any font that is used in a document. So if you have any questions about what pages a font is used on, or what Styles it is included in, the answers are a just click of a button away. You can even find out exactly where the Font files are located on your computer.
Web tip: By Laith Ibrahim| July 3, 2009 ConvertFiles.com can help you convert files from a format that you cannot open to one that you can use on your computer. I found it very handy when I receive 2007 office files that has the "x" at the end of their extensions. This free online servcie will convert the files to older versions of Office. Check it out here
Photoshop Tip: By Conrad Chavez | July 3, 2009 To get sharper photos, you just apply the right sharpening settings in Photoshop and you’re done, right? Not quite. To create consistently sharp pictures, pay attention to important factors at every step of your photographic workflow -- especially steps that affect image contrast. Click here to Read the whole tip
Acrobat Tip: By Donna Baker | July 3, 2009 Some projects are quite involved, and the finished document reflects that complexity. There may be all sorts of non-optimized content, such as images with overly high resolutions, multimedia renditions added and deleted, pages inserted and removed, and so on. Click here to read the whole tip
Illustrator Tip: By Jeff Witchel | June 24, 2009 Things have changed in CS4. By default, the Pathfinders work like Filters by changing the original vector object. To use it as an Effect, Group the objects (Object>Group), and go to the Effects menu and apply the Pathfinder to the grouped objects. You can also use the Pathfinder panel, without altering the vector objects, by holding down your Option key (Alt on PC) when you press the Shape Mode command buttons.
Indesign Tip: By Jeff Witchel | May 19, 2009 Aren't guides annoying sometimes? You have probably wished that there's a quick way to delete all guides in Indesign. Well, there is. in Indesign CS3, press Control + Alt + G (CMD + option + G on MAC) to select all guides and then press the delete key. In CS4, simply right click on your spread (Control+Click on spread) and select "Delete all Guides" from the pop up menu. This will get rid of all guides and you enjoy the clean spread.
Indesign Tip: By AnneMarie Concepcion | April 25, 2009 On the Mac, you can just press Option-Tab to insert a tab inside a table cell. On a PC, Alt-Tab is reserved for flipping through your open programs. However, you can choose Type > Insert Special Character > Other > Tab. Or, instead, just go to Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts and assign a keyboard shortcut to it. It’s listed under the Type Menu product area; look for Insert Special Character:Other:Tab. You’ll see that “Tab” is already set as the default keyboard shortcut for this, but only while in a Text frame (it says “Context: Text”). If you choose “Table” from the Context pop-up menu, you can add another keyboard shortcut for this command. I use Control-Tab. In other words, when I want to add a tab inside a cell in Windows, I press Control-Tab. Works great.
Twitter Tip: By Raj | April 24, 2009 Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates. One thing like about twitter is simplicity. Check out these applications for other ways to send and receive Twitter Updates. See the list
Quark Express Tip: By Pariah S. Burke| March 30, 2009 In the usage box, select all out-of-date images and ask QuarkXPress to update them. When prompted to update the first image, don’t click OK. Instead, hold the OPTION (ALT) key while clicking Update. XPress will then prompt only for the location of the first image in each folder; if all out-of-date or moved images are in a single folder, the update will finish all by itself!
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ArticlesHow to Choose Colors Everyone LikesBy Igor Asselbergs | July 4, 2009 A time-tested formula may not determine the difference between good or bad taste, but it does predict common taste. And that makes the formula quite useful when you're choosing colors. Read more
iPhone Apps for DesignersBy Jeff Carlson | July 4, 2009 Yes, iPhones are good for phone calls, text messages, email, and of course, games. But many iApps are truly useful additions to a designer's toolbox. Here are a few of the better apps, which range in price from free to $9.99. Read more
A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your BrandBy Dmitry | July 2, 2009 One of the key elements of building a strong brand is color selection. Every color has a different feel and various associations. By choosing a color or a combination of colors for your brand identity, you will take on those associations. Colors will evoke certain emotions and feelings towards your brand so it is vital to choose a color that will represent your identity effectively. Read more
Some Artists Say No to GoogleBy Andrew Adam Newman | June 26, 2009 When Google representatives recently invited dozens of prominent artists to contribute work to be featured on its new Web browser, the company enthusiastically sold the idea as an opportunity to have artwork shown to millions. Read more
8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your ImagesBy Jacob Gube | June 26, 2009 One of the easiest ways to reduce page response times is by optimizing your website images to reduce their file sizes as much as possible. Optimizing images not only makes your web pages load faster, but also reduces your bandwidth consumption, which can translate to significant savings in your hosting bills. Click here to read full article
10 things every designer should knowBy Claudia McCue, Practicalia LLC | June 26, 2009 Even though we’ve been using desktop publishing for nearly 30 years, it seems that many of the same issues still crop up. And as new features appear in graphics software, we develop interesting new issues! Good communication is still the key to successful print. Are you a printer? Share this with your customers. Read more
13 iPhone Apps for Graphic DesignersBy webdesigndepot.com | June 24, 2009If you’ve found a greater purpose for your iPhone besides calling or Googling directions, then you’d probably like to explore what your iPhone can offer you in the realm of graphic design. I’ve compiled a collection of the most useful 13 iPhone apps for graphic designers that I’ve come across. Each contributes and offers a unique ability to aid you on your journey through graphic design. Read more
44 tools to help you in your design workBy Mirko | June 24, 2009 The web is full of resources, but they’re often hard to reach. This is the reason why I think it’s important to organize them with a coherent structure and share it with you. So just bookmark this page for whenever you’ll need it, it’ll be useful. Please also mention if I missed anything. Read more
Preflight Profiles for InDesign CS4By Sandee Cohen | June 24, 2009If you are using ID CS4, you should check out the Live Preflight panel. What this panel does is give you the ability to automatically check for problems in your document as you work. For instance, if you take an image and scale it up, Live Preflight will alert you if you’ve scaled it up too much so that it is no longer high resolution. Read more
Make a Phone Call to send an EmailBy An Jay | June 17, 2009 Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. You can use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It’s easy and hands-free. Check it out
50+ Creative Logos Using Gradient EffectsBy An Jay | June 17, 2009logo is a major element which is used to represent a business or product. Design a perfect Logo for your business or product is very much important. It has been told since last so many years that you should avoid using more than three colors when designing logo and told to avoid gradients. This trend was broken with the launch of Rainbow Apple logo in the mid eighties. From then till now we have discovered a lot about logo designing. Check out the logos
Printing & Prepress BasicsBy Brandi Stanley | June 5, 2009 While art and design schools do an impressive job of teaching the importance of form, function, and how to use flashy Photoshop techniques, it's rare that designers have been taught the skills necessary to pass off their projects to printers so that they may not only successfully, but smoothly, produce a designed work. Read more
Have You Saved Your Files Recently?By Fritz | June 3, 2009 CS4 introduced a new consistent interface for the Adobe applications. This included the application frame for mac users, a tabbed interface and a other changes. One useful, but small change is the introduction of visual feedback of the save status for your open files. Read more
Where Do You Rank at Twitter?By idezy.com | June 2, 2009 TwitRank will give you a score or rank out of 10 for your Twitter profile. Where actually not sure how it calculates the score (my profile got a 5/10), but what we do know is there are plenty of other tools which do the same thing but much better. What is good about TwitRank.me is the sites design, which one would simply describe as “pretty”. Read More
50 Excellent Image GalleriesBy NetTuts.com | May 28, 2009 Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community! Check it out.
Twitter To Make A TV ShowBy Nicholas Carlson | May 25, 2009 Twitter and production companies Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment are joining to come out with a TV show that is about "putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format." Variety reports the novelist Amy Ephron – yes, she's Nora Ephron's sister – came up with the idea. Our guess is Twitter the company will put about zero resources into the show and its creation. The startup is also officially backing a book of Twitter witticisms to be published by HarperCollins in the Fall. CEO Ev Williams must just figure the exposure is good for the startup's growth.
10 Common Typography MistakesBy Brian Hoff | May 20, 2009 Below is a list of 10 common mistakes used in type design/layout that can make a large impact in the effectiveness and appearance of your designs, in addition to saving you time and money when dealing with printers. Read more
How to Use Multiple Artboards in IllustratorBy David Karlins| May 18, 2009 Perhaps no new feature in Illustrator CS4 has generated as much hype, intrigue, and head-scratching as the ability to define multiple artboards within a single document. With multiple artboards, Illustrator users can now create multi-page documents. Read more
100+ Sites to Download All Sorts of ThingsBy Arnold Zafra | May 12, 2009 These days you can find all sorts of things online, from audio books to flash files, from sound effects to CSS templates. Below we compiled a list with over 100 download sites that serve that purpose. Read more
Your Own Single Page Portfolio Web siteBy Danny Outlaw | May 11, 2009 Spicing up your portfolio is something I tend to bring up from time to time here on The River Current. One popular trend is to create a simple one page layout for your portfolio. This helps to keep your site simple and to the point. Fellow design blogger and Envato teammate, Chris of Spoon Graphics recently wrote a cool tutorial on the subject. Read more
18 Search Engines For DesignersBy Twinster | May 05, 2009 As a designer it can sometimes be hard to find either inspiration, tutorials or that really perfect and important font or icon that you need for your design to stand out and reach your quality barrier. I have myself struggled with some designs not knowing where to take it from there. But, lately I have learned that there is tons of ways to get that extra boost to your creativity. Search Engines! Yup, that’s the way to go. And now you’re thinking google at an instant right? Read more
5 Reasons Why Designers are Switching to MacPresented by Laith Ibrahim | April 27, 2009 Macintosh still has a very small share of the computers market (about 8% in 2008) but it continues to grow every year. I use both Mac and Pc and like them both. However, I prefer the latter (not with Windows Vista please) because I've been working on it for a much longer time and I know the needed ins and outs to troubleshoot any problem. Also, resources for Pc are easier to find on the internet. However, I do think that the article has a point and is worth reading. Read it
10 of the Best Color Resources and ToolsBy DesignReviver.com | April 26, 2009 Color plays an important role in the way we communicate with each other. Color not only helps give a design visual beauty, but it can also make a person react or feel a certain way. This feeling may be on a subconscious level, but it could affect the way that person thinks about a product or service. That’s why it is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette. Read more
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