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Shapes magic – nested shapes

Shapes magic – nested shapes

Digitip 026 – Adobe InDesign CS (Revision 1.0) 1+1 = 3. The following shape magic tip has been added thanks to creative thinking by Paul from Snap. In searching for a method to create the following effect, AND have the ability to resize the shape without affecting its contents, the nested shapes came up as […]

Layer Mask from Grayscale Image

Layer Mask from Grayscale Image

Digitip 025 – Adobe Photoshop CS (revision 1.1) During a Saturday training session, one of the trainees asked a question about creating a layer mask based on an existing greyscale image. A solution was found, that seemed too much like a work around. The following tip uses a copy-‘n-paste approach.

Printing to Adobe PDF (OSX)

Printing to Adobe PDF (OSX)

Digitip 024 – Adobe Acrobat 6 / Adobe InDesign CS Revision 1.0 This tip has been added by popular request. On installation of Adobe Acrobat, the Adobe PDF printer is added to the list of printers in your printer utility (Applications/Utilities folder). This printer can be used to output files to PDF directly as if […]