Tips & TricksIndesign Tip: Resize Text and the text Frame at the same time By Laith Ibrahim| March 30, 2009 Press and hold the CTRL Key (PC) or the Command key (MAC) then click and drag one of the text frame’s corners to resize. Both text and frame will be resized.
Indesign Tip: Slightly moving objects By Laith Ibrahim| March 30, 2009 Press CTRL + shift + an arrow key (PC) or CMD + shift + an arrow key (MAC) to move an object slightly to the desired direction. Press the arrow key repeatedly while holding the other 2 keys to move it more.
Illustrator Tip: create a color group of all the colors in an Illustrator document By Laith Ibrahim| March 23, 2009 Select all the art in your document, go to the Swatches fly-out menu and choose “New color group”. A new color group folder of all the colors in the artwork will be created.
Illustrator Tip: 10 Free and Extremely Useful Illustrator Scripts By vectips.com | March 23, 2009 Illustrator has a plethora of tools at you disposal. Even with all these tools, there is always going to be something missing. This is where scripts and plug-ins come in to help. With scripts and plug-ins you can perform tasks that Illustrator cannot complete on it’s own. There are a great deal of resources out there and in this post you will find 10 free and useful scripts for Illustrator! Go to details
Indesign Tip: Find Custom Tracking By Laith Ibrahim| March 20, 2009 There are times when you want to check your Indesign file for any text using custom kerning and tracking to fix it. This scenario happened to me several times when I receive a file from someone who doesn't have much experience with type so he/she tends to change the tracking and kerning to fit text on a line. This will make the text look unevenly spaced. The solution is to open "Preferences", click on "Composition", in the "Highlight" section check "Custom Tracking/Kerning". This option will highlight all the custom tracking with a green color.
Illustrator Tip: Collect fonts used in a file By Laith Ibrahim| March 20, 2009 Graphic designers are still mad at Adobe for not including a "package" command in Adobe Illustrator new version CS4. To overcome this issue, do the following: Save your illustrator file as an eps file making sure to uncheck the "Embed fonts” option. Open Indesign, Place your eps file in a new blank Indesign file and finally package your Indesign file (make sure to include fonts when you are asked what to package). That's it! You'll be delighted when you find your fonts collected in one folder. Please send your tips to imagedpi@yahoo.com
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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
Type in Real World Adobe InDesign CS4By Olav Martin Kvern | April 24, 2009 InDesign offers many improvements in the area of typesetting. It’s an evolutionary product, not a revolutionary one, but, on its release, InDesign became the best desktop typesetting program, and raised the bar for its competition. Read more
10 of the Best Color Resources and ToolsBy designreviver.com | April 20, 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
Improve Typography In Your DesignsBy Antonio Carusone | April 20, 2009 Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect. Read more
7 Free Tools to Identify A FontBy webdesignerdepot.com So you’re browsing through your favorite web site and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too, (and must be as quickly as possible!)… so how do we go about finding out what that font is called? Sounds familiar? Yes… we’ve all been there before! Read more
How to Choose Colors Everyone LikesBy Igor Asselbergs | April 3, 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 for designers choosing colors. Read more
Top QuarkXPress TipsBy Jay J. Nelson | April 3, 2009 Adjust dot leaders, link spreadsheets to tables, and learn the logic behind spaces before and after paragraphs. Read more
New Tools for ColorBy Brenda Sutherland | April 1, 2009 It’s so easy to take color for granted. Sure, we all have our favorites, and who among us doesn’t spend a ridiculous amount of time choosing the perfect color when the choice is in our hands. Read more
Why Artboards and not Pages?By David marcy, Illustrator Senior Product Manager Great lead-in yesterday about the productivity enhancements found by using Multiple Artboards in Illustrator CS4. So, why do we call these Artboards in Illustrator and not Pages? The word “page” is well understood in our language, and has implications based on its true meaning and on how it has been expressed in existing software applications. Read more
The Elegance of ImperfectionBy David Sherwin | March 26, 2009 » Everything I know about the elegance of imperfection, I learned from the white porcelain plate I bought in Kyoto. What’s so special about this plate? Before it was fired, it was perfectly round, but the artist intentionally roughed up the edges. Read more
Discover the “Cool” of CSSBy DesignTech.com | March 26, 2009 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. I prefer to use CSS, rather then JavaScript or Jquey, if the same functionality can achieved by CSS because it is most likely that some people might turn off JavaScript in their pages but not CSS. Read more
Users Don’t Like ChangeBy Karr | March 211, 2009 I’ve been reading a lot about the new user interface design on Facebook and how much users have pushed back on the changes, ironically through a survey launched as a Facebook App. They don’t just dislike the changes, they despise them: Read more
File Sharing from Microsoft Outlook 2007By Mangesh Bhandarker | March 16, 2009 You have to send a sales proposal to a client to meet a deadline. You do all the work, compile all the necessary documents together and package them up and send it via e-mail well before the set deadline. However unbeknownst to you, your recipients e-mail server limits the size of e-mail attachments and your attachments is removed by the server. Read more
How to Delete Accounts from Any Web siteBy pcmag.com | March 7, 2009 Deleting accounts you've created on Facebook, MySpace, AOL, and elsewhere on the Web isn't always easy. Here are the details on leaving 23 services behind. Read more
10 useful free Windows system toolsBy TechRadar.com | March 11, 2009 When compiling your essential Windows XP or Vista toolkit, it makes sense to source as many free tools as you possibly can. But sometimes you don't know that you need a tool until you're presented with it. But sometimes you don't know that you need a tool until you're presented with it. Read more
Prepress PDFs with Acrobat 8 ProfessionalBy Taz Tally | March 11, 2009 Not all PDFs are created equal—Prepress-bound PDFs are best created by high-quality PDF generation tools such as Adobe Acrobat Distiller or the Export command in Adobe InDesign. Prepress PDFs should have high-resolution images; simplified flattened, RIP-Ready images; high- quality embedded fonts; CMYK or spot color assignments; no lines that are less than 0.25 pts; and need to have large enough dimensions to accommodate crop marks and color bars. Read more Browse for more<< 1 2 >> |
