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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.
Type on a circle
Monday, May 1st, 2006
Digitip 044 - 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.
Bulleted list and icon insertion
Monday, February 20th, 2006
Digitip 043 - Adobe InDesign CS2
The following video tip shows you how to use the bulleted lists feature to automatically insert different icons in front of selected paragraphs.
Nested and Next Styles
Monday, February 20th, 2006
Digitip 042 - Adobe InDesign CS2
The following video tutorial very briefly reviews the use of the next style feature in Adobe InDesign CS2 through which multiple paragraph styles can be applied to a set of highlighted paragraphs.
Brushing a mask
Sunday, February 12th, 2006
Digitip 041 - Adobe Illustrator CS2
The following tip was based on an a recent Photoshop TV podcast tip by Matt Kloskowski, where a photographic image was nicely masked in Photoshop.
Align away from spine
Sunday, February 5th, 2006
Digitip 040 - Adobe InDesign CS2
A short tutorial putting the paragraph formatting control “align away from spine” to practice, when setting left/right pagenumbering on a master page.