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Posts by Cari Jansen

Faster search and retrieval

Faster search and retrieval

Digitip 010 – Adobe Acrobat 6 Revision 2.0 If you are used to searching long PDF documents and folders full of PDFs, then you might have been spending quite a bit of time waiting for the search to be completed. When I originally wrote this tip last year I actually measured search times and found […]

Swatches added from other files

Swatches added from other files

Digitip 009 – Adobe InDesign 2 You can add spot colours, process colours, tint and gradient swatches used in one InDesign document to another. It is not possible to do this using a simple one-click method. There is however, a semi automatic method that allows adding of colour swatches used in one InDesign document to […]

Colouring a Cartoon

Colouring a Cartoon

Digitip 008 – Adobe Photoshop 7 Building on Nick Hodge’s spot colour Photoshop / InDesign tips I thought it would be nice to show a way of creating a simple cartoon, using one(spot)colour and black in Photoshop. It includes using a layer effect to spice-up the look a bit and calculations to extract the different […]