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Preparing the Trace Graphic

Preparing the Trace Graphic

Digitip 063 – Adobe Photoshop CS3 A month or so ago I demoed a masking technique that works well with text in Illustrator during an Adobe eSeminar I delivered. At the time I promised to write this technique up as a digitip, however, an extremely busy workschedule meant I’d not yet gotten around to posting […]

Scaling Effects

Scaling Effects

Digitip 062 – Adobe InDesign CS3 Last week, the InDesign Talk list had an interesting discussion about scaling effects in InDesign.  As far as I can tell from some tests I’ve just run, it is only the Drop Shadow Effect that doesn’t scale. All other effects seem to scale appropriately.

Ins and Outs of Stroke Alignment

Ins and Outs of Stroke Alignment

Digitip 061 – Adobe InDesign CS3 For those of us setting Ads in InDesign the introduction of the feature that can set Stroke Alignment on border objects to “Align Stroke to Inside” in InDesign CS was welcomed with open arms. Gone were the days of borders vanishing into the Pasteboard gray…