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Posts by Cari Jansen

Eyedropper tool across documents

Eyedropper tool across documents

Digitip 019 – Adobe InDesign CS Trying to find an easy way to copy across selective colours, text settings, stroke patterns, styles and other features from one document to another? The eyedropper tool comes to the rescue!

Separations Preview and ink Manager

Separations Preview and ink Manager

Digitip 018 – Adobe InDesign CS revision 1.2 InDesign’s new separation preview window is intelligent, with direct access to theĀ Ink Manager settings (palette’s fly-out menu) it immediately refers to colour separation settings used during output when displaying ink coverage readings. A pretty useful preflight and quick colour-fix tool.

Shadow/Highlight vs. Selections/Curves

Shadow/Highlight vs. Selections/Curves

Digitip 017 – Adobe Photoshop CS Updated 1-Feb-2010 (few typos fixed). After seeing the new shadow/highlight Image adjustment command recently I got pretty excited. I’ve compared this new command against a more conventional selection and curves based technique used for (shadow) contrast and detail enhancement and found it to be much less distorting on 8-bit […]