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where’s my scratch disk?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
If you are an old time Photoshop user, you may remember that in past versions of Photoshop we had access to preferences setting that enabled us to select one or more drives as Scratch disk for Photoshop. Photoshop uses this Scratch Disk space as Viritual Memory. Preferably the drive allocated wouldn’t be the same drive [...]
Sort it please… (2)
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Digitip 095 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts.
This is the second part of a two part write-up about sorting paragraph and table text in InDesign and covers the sorting of table data, thanks to a great script developed and provided freely by Peter Kahrel.
Sort it please… (1)
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Digitip 094 – Adobe InDesign CS4, Sorting with Scripts.
Updated 23-Feb-2010 Addedvideo
You’ve spend a few days working on some great layouts for a customer. Lots of bulleted lists and tables, and when you receive the first proof back, many of the lists and tables have a note on them: “can you please sort this in alphabetical [...]
Colour my swatches…
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Digitip 093 – Adobe Creative Suite 4. Building a swatch set from an image
Updated: 5-Jan-2010: Added Video Tutorial at end of transcript
During our InDesign Trivia night at the Perth InDesign User Group in December, we had some fun with colours in InDesign.
Here’s one of the scenario’s we used: So you’re working on a layout in [...]
The Quick Refine Soft-Edge Mask Tip
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Digitip 091 – Photoshop CS4 – Refining your Mask…
Modified: 13 September 2009 – Added “Note”.
Super quick tip. A practical example. I’ve been writing Technical Documentation the past weeks, and am processing an awful lot of screenshots. Sometimes they are kind of big and I really only want to focus on one part, but would love [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (4)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Digitip 090 – InDesign CS4 – GREPpin’ ahead or GREPpin’ behind
The following tip is the 4th tip in a series of tips on GREP that I’m working on. It’s one of my personal favourites. Probably because I’ve worked with so many people in my carreer who set those Ads you find in your letter box [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (3)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
This is the third in a series of tutorials I’ll be writing up about GREP styles. The previous GREP Tutorial is about applying a different style to figures.
In this tutorial we look at how we can convert text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps.
Let’s get started.
Introducing GREP Styles (2)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Digitip 089 – Adobe InDesign CS4 – GREP your Figures
This is the second in a series of short GREP Style tutorials. I introduce GREP styles in the first post in this series. In this short tutorial we look at how we can use a GREP style to change the appearance of any figures within a [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (1)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Digitip 088 – Adobe InDesign CS4 – GREP Styles (1)
InDesign CS3 introduced the ability to perform GREP Find/Changes, making it easier for us to apply character styles to text pattern strings such as ‘all text’ between parentheses. InDesign CS4 introduces the ability to lock this pattern based application of character styles into your Paragraph Styles.
In [...]
Previous and Current Page Numbers on Odd Pages.
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Digitip 087 – Adobe InDesign CS4
26-June-2009 – Comment Cari: “Bob Bringhurst (who’s responsible for Help Documentation for InDesign and InCopy), is acknowledging that the changed behaviour we’re seeing in CS4 is a bug. See his post ‘Page Numbering on a Single Spread Page‘.”
The following tip is the CS4 write-up of a Digitip 027. Based [...]