Illustrator
Vertical Type from Illustrator to InDesign
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
In my previous post I provided a solution for setting type vertically in InDesign. Illustrator in contrast to InDesign actually has a Vertical Type tool, and the close integration between the two applications means we can opt to set our type in Illustrator instead and bring it into InDesign as a graphic.
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 [...]
Stray points removal in Illustrator and InDesign
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Adobe Illustrator has had a Stray Anchor Points remover for some time. In Illustrator CS3, you can remove stray points by selecting Object > Path > Clean up… The Clean Up command allows for deletion of Stray Points, Empty Text Paths and Unpainted Objects. InDesign on the other hand doesn’t contain such a command.
Nostalgia
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
John Nack back in February posted this digitized VHS video from the Adobe archives to YouTube. Maybe I’m getting old or I’m in the mood for some nostalgia … but I’d love to see more of these old VHS movies converted and shared. This one is a promotional video delivered by John Warnock [...]
Illustrator and Epson printing
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
If you’re experiencing problems printing to your Epson printer with borderless enabled from Illustrator, this new TechNote from Adobe might provide you with a fix.
Web-reference: TechNote (2008, Adobe Systems)
3D Pie Graphs in Illustrator
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Digitip 073 – Adobe Illustrator CS3
Illustrator has had a graph tool for as long as I can remember. The following trick shows how you can use Illustrator graphs to create a 3D pie graph for which the graph data can still be edited.
Let’s get started by entering some basic numbers
Simple continuous pattern
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Digitip 072 – Adobe Illustrator CS3
Modified 20-Apr-2008 (added Scott C. tip)
The following tip shows how you can create a relatively simple continuous pattern using Illustrator. It’s been sitting on the back-burner for well over a month, but is finally here
Temporary Access to Selection Tools
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Digitip 068 – Adobe InDesign CS3
Ok, not really an extensive tip… more an observation and question – at the end – with some tip elements in it that I thought I’d share.
Pressing the Command (Mac) or Ctrl (Win) key whilst you are working with another tool in InDesign will give you temporary access to either [...]
Masked Text
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 065 – Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3
This tip is Part 3 of a three-part tip and generates the masked text. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork is created and Part 2 outlines how to apply Live Trace and maintain colour editing ability.
Tracing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 064 – Adobe Illustrator CS3
This tip is Part 2 of a three-part tip. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork that is placed into the Illustrator file was created and Part 3 will create the Text Effect that will give our finished result.