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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
Digitip 090 – Adobe InDesign CS4 GREP Styles
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 [...]
Vertical Justification and End of Story Marker
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Digitip 086 – Adobe InDesign CS4 – Vertical Justification & End of Story Marker
Vertical Justification… according to Webopedia is the “automatic adjustment of vertical space between lines, so that columns and pages have an even top and bottom margin” … In InDesign Vertical Justification really refers to the vertical alignment text has within its text [...]
Creating Interactive PDFs from InDesign (6)
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Digitip 085 – Adobe InDesign CS4: A story about Table of Contents and Bookmarks
This is the 6th tip in a series of tips on Interactive PDFs. We’ve learnt in previous tips to create buttons, add cool roll over effects, add actions to buttons, create hyperlinks to pages and more. In this tip we’ll look at [...]
Creating Interactive PDFs from InDesign (5)
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Digitip 084 – Adobe InDesign CS4: Hyperlink to selected document pages
This is the 5th tip in a series of tips on Interactive PDFs. We’ve learnt in previous tips to create buttons, add cool roll over effects, add actions to buttons and more. In this tip we’ll look at using InDesign’s Hyperlink feature to create a [...]
Creating Interactive PDFs from InDesign (4)
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Digitip 083 – Adobe InDesign CS4: Showing/Hiding Content
We learnt in previous tips to create buttons, add roll over effects. In this tip we’ll look at how we can create a roll over effect button that reveals hidden information and hides that which is shown originally.
We start at the very beginning. By creating buttons for each [...]