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Quicktips 79 – Straight Along the Horizon

adam — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:14:41 +0000

Check out this great tutorial borrowed from an excellent book: The Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic, by Matt Kloskowski. If you ever notice a problem in a photo of the lines or horizon not being quite straight enough, you can use this very quick technique to correct the issue and ’straighten things out.’

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Quicktips 78 – CSS navigation made easy

adam — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:14:03 +0000

Table and image-based navigation are still widely used and accepted, but they have their downsides in terms of loading time and compatibility with search engine bots. The navigation of the future is built using a simple unordered list and CSS styles. In this episode we’ll look at a quick and easy way to buld a CSS navigation bar that will meet all your needs and standards.

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Quicktips 77 – Mactips 5 – Get Out of the Finder

adam — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:57:56 +0000

Some of these you may know some you may not, but all these tips can help you get out of the OS and back into the project at hand. Don’t waste time messing with finding files when you could already be working on them.

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Quicktips 76 – The Glyph Panel

adam — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:21:37 +0000

If you’re not using this panel already, you need to be. Combined with Open Type faces, this panel opens up a lot of possibilities in your typography. Use alternate characters, get quick access to fraction, symbols, dingbats and more.

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Quicktips 75 – KnowHow in Illustrator

adam — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:21:31 +0000

Here are a couple panels you may have skipped over in Illustrator CS3 that you definitely don’t want to miss. Grab color groups from the web and drag them right into your swatches panel, or get your questions answered right from within the Illustrator UI! Go to Window > Adobe Labs > Kuler and KnowHow.

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Quicktips 74 – Photoshop Panoramas

adam — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:39:40 +0000

Use the new Auto-Align Layers and Auto-Blend Layers functions in CS3 to get fast, easy and amazing results when turning multiple images into one panoramic picture. Learn how in this episode.

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Quicktips 73 – How To Get Quicktips on your iPod!

adam — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:33:34 +0000

A couple of ‘hot ticket’ items in this podcast. The two questions I get most on a consistent basis are: “How can I watch Quicktips on my video iPod”, and “Where can I find the old, archived episodes that are no longer on the feed?” In this episode, both of these questions are answered, and the solutions are extremely easy!

Revver (find the archived episodes)

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Quicktips 72 – Save Styles in Illustrator

adam — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:01:44 +0000

Learn how to create and save styles that are comparable to those you may use in Photoshop. Which way is easier? That’s for you to decide, but know that you can actually create many different effects and styles in the vector-based application!

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Quicktips 71 – Save Selections in Illustrator

adam — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:07:28 +0000

Yup, you can do that. Its not exactly like Photoshop, but if you ever need to make a selection of several objects or line segments, and need to do it over and again, this is a great feature to know.

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Quicktips 70 – Make Quick Work with Step & Repeat

adam — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:55:42 +0000

Use this feature of Illustrator to speed up a process that could have taken you much longer. Produce multiple copies of an object and tweak the position, rotation, scale and more!

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Quicktips 69 – Text Wrap, Runaround and Breaking All the Rules

adam — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:25:09 +0000

Here’s a problem you might encounter in your layouts that is very easy to cure, provided you know where to find the solution. Watch this and you will!

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Quicktips 68 – Masking in Flash

adam — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:49:50 +0000

Learn how to make a couple different animations using two masking techniques, namely animating an object into a mask, and animating the mask itself. Both are basic concept that can be taken a step further to create 1000’s of effects.

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Quicktips 67 – Mactips 04 – Make a custom system icon

adam — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:17:18 +0000

The much awaited icon creation episode is here! We’ll see how to use Iconographer and Photoshop to make a custom icon that can be used to replace icons on folders, applications and more…

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Quicktips 66 – Photoshop CS3 Extended 3-D Feature Set

adam — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:37:44 +0000

This is a quick look at what is available to you in terms of 3-D tools and functionality in the new Photoshop CS3 Extended version. If you did not follow along in the last episodes you may want to go back and create a model in Google Sketch Up, or find another 3-D model to use so you can play along!

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Quicktips 65 – Google Sketch Up Intro

adam — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:17:07 +0000

Here is a little tutorial to get you going in Google Sketch Up so you can make some 3-D objects. Next week we’ll import these objects into Photoshop CS3 Extended and check out the new 3-D features just added!

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Quicktips 64 – Improvements to Illustrator CS3

adam — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:57:41 +0000

In this episode we’ll take a look at a couple reasons you might want to upgrade to the new CS3 version of Illustrator. They finally got it right and have allowed us to play with the size of the points and control handles associated with paths. See how to change the settings and how it can help your work habits.

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Quicktips 63.5 – Adding Strokes to Text Revisited

adam — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:45:48 +0000

Special Thank You to pj, who sent me an even better work-around for the “adding strokes to your text” issue. Its a good one!

Quicktips 63 – Adding Strokes to Text

adam — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:43:17 +0000

Use this mini workaround to get good looking strokes on your text without ruining it!

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Quicktips 62 – Typography Tips: Aligning Text

adam — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:13:52 +0000

Learn how to use Tabs, Align to Here and Tables to align your text exactly the way you want it.

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Quicktips 61 – JavaScripting InDesign

adam — Sun, 06 May 2007 22:30:34 +0000

Javascript in InDesign? Yup, much like plugins you can install javascripts that will increase the functionality of your program and help speed up that workflow. Its easier than it sounds, see how here!

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