Adobe Photoshop’s text capabilities are adequate for most users, but one area that is sorely lacking is the ability to set text in columns. It’s a royal pain when you’re mocking up a website to have to set two separate text layers and align them when you want multiple columns of text.
Read more “Create text columns on a single Photoshop layer with this uber-cool extension”
Some great free Photoshop cloud brushes. It seems like I use cloud brushes on every outdoor photo I find, so I can never have enough of them loaded in my brushes panel in Photoshop.
There is no perfect set of tools for graphic designers. We’re all unique, we all work in different ways, and budgets always come in to play. I’ve put together a breakdown of major factors when building the best graphic design hardware and software toolbox based on my experience. Consider the following as a guide, rather than a set of absolute rules.
Size Marks is a helpful Photoshop script for web designers and front-end engineers which converts rectangular marquee to labeled measurement mark.
Photoshop’s History panel allows you to revert to previous states of your work simply by clicking back through history in the list. But one thing it has never done in the past is record the fact that you performed a Save or Save As on the document.
With the release of Photoshop CC 2014, Adobe has finally added this feature to the History Panel functionality.
Now if you have a complicated document, you’re probably saving quite a bit. Since the History Panel only saves a specific amount of history states (which you can configure in the Preferences>Performance>History States panel), you’ll likely want to at least have all the Save states saved. To do this, you can have Photoshop automatically save a new Snapshot of the document each time you save by clicking the flyout menu in the History Panel and select History Options. Tick the Automatically Create New Snapshot When Saving checkbox.
When manipulating images in Photoshop, it’s all in the details.
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I told you FlatIcon was the one Photoshop plugin you should absolutely be using back in March. It’s so convenient. When I updated to Adobe Creative Cloud 2014, the Photoshop plugin stopped working.
Read more “FlatIcon plugin updated for Photoshop CC2014”
A reader asked me if a downloadable version of the webcast was available for a recent font management webinar from Extensis.
At the time, I was not aware of one. Fortunately, Extensis has made that webinar available for viewing by everyone.
Read more “Font management with Suitcase Fusion & Adobe Creative Cloud”
You’ve probably heard about some of the features of the latest version of Photoshop CC 2014, but like my post about my favorite new InDesign features, it’s the little things that make upgrades worth having.
Rather than writing a repetitive post here, I’ll point you to an excellent look at a few of the new Photoshop CC 2014 features over at CreativePro.
Read more “Photoshop CC 2014’s blur on path among new features”
If you’re an Adobe Creative Cloud subscriber, you’ve no doubt downloaded and installed the latest versions of the CC apps. Adobe has smartly opted to install the apps beside existing CC apps, so you now have two versions of the main apps. This is important because many extensions and plug-ins are not yet compatible with the latest versions of InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
Read more “Extension compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 apps”
When Adobe shipped Creative Cloud, Bridge was missing a feature many designers and photographers use quite often – the Output module. The Output module allows you to select folders of images and create a customizable contact sheet in PDF or Web Gallery format.
Read more “Adobe Bridge CC’s missing Output module: How to get it back”