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Benday Dots Screen Fill technique
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Digitip 053 - Adobe Illustrator CS2
The following tip looks at using screen patterns as a fill for selected objects in Illustrator. I must thank Sylvia for asking about benday (or Ben Day) dots on the CTP-Q, Page Layout: Adobe, Quark, MS, PDF forum, as it triggered the creation of this tip. Part 2 of this […]
Faded dotted pattern
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Digitip 054 - Adobe Illustrator CS2
This tip succeeds the previous tip, and show cases how the dotted patterns created earlier can be faded, whilst retaining their vector and spot colours.
Replacing Vector Smart Objects
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Digitip 052 - Adobe Photoshop CS2
This is part 3 in a 3 part tutorial on Vector Smart Objects.
Editing Vector Smart Objects
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Digitip 051 - Adobe Photoshop CS2
This is part 2 in a 3 part tutorial on Vector Smart Objects. .
Creating and duplicating Vector Smart Objects
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Digitip 050 - Adobe Photoshop CS2
This is part 1 in a 3 part tutorial on Vector Smart Objects.
Mutliple Strokes - Appearances
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Digitip 049 - Adobe Illustrator CS2
In today’s eSeminar “Discover Illustrator CS2″, I ran through the usage of the appearance palette as a powertool in Illustrator CS2. As promised I would post at least one eTutorial at the end of the seminar based on the End Poll question “which feature covered today would you like to […]
Adding rows and columns - techniques
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Digitip 048 - Adobe InDesign CS2
Tables are a great way to format text in InDesign. Rows and columns can be colourised, merged, redistributed and cells can contain both graphic and textual content. Most of us will probably format tables in InDesign that originate from either Microsoft Word or Excel. In some cases, you might be […]
Nested Styles
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Digitip 047 - Adobe InDesign CS2
Nested styles really ARE better than sliced bread… and I know because I love my breads They really provide an incredibly powerful tool for text formatting. Where in the past you might have been using Character Styles to format part of your text, you can - with the help […]
Last Line Right Indent
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Digitip 046 - Adobe InDesign CS2
The last line right indent feature was included in InDesign’s Creative Suite 2 release. It has many different uses, and in show-casing it in this very short tip, I hope to provide CS2 users with another useful tip.
Type on top and bottom of circle
Monday, May 1st, 2006
Digitip 045 - Adobe InDesign CS2
The following video tip shows you how to set text on a circular path. The type is centered at the top of the circle.