Adobe Photoshop
When you’re trying to crop an image close to the edge of the document in Adobe Photoshop, you may notice that the crop tool always wants to “snap” to the edge of the document, or close to a layer object edge. This is a result of Photoshop’s Snap To feature, which normally is quite handy!
Read more “Avoid Crop-Snapping in Photoshop”
General
Love them or hate them, Favicons are a visual business card for your Web site in other people’s bookmark bar. Creating them requires the use of an image editor and an application that can save files as a Windows icon (.ico file). Virtually anyone can find an image editor to design their own favicon, but saving them as an .ico file isn’t always so easy to find.
Read more “Create a Favicon the Easy Way”
General
Every once in a while you still find yourself having to send a Fax… you remember the Fax, that crappy, curly paper that gets pooped-out of a noisy, clunky machine on the counter in the other room? Sure you do.
Read more “Free Faxing: And Then There Was One”
Adobe Photoshop
Layer Groups (a collection of Layers inside a folder in the Layers Panel) in Photoshop are a great way to organize your Layers — but many times you will need to merge a Layer Group to work on its component Layers as a merged, single Layer as if it were a flattened document. It’s easily done with a keyboard shortcut.
Read more “Merge a PS Layer Group to a New Layer”
Adobe InDesign
Any time I can save myself from moving the mouse from one end of the screen to the other I consider it a big win. This little shortcut saves me a lot of mousing around with a 27″ hooked up to a MacBook Pro.
Read more “Quickly Switch to InDesign’s Text Tool”
Adobe InDesign
InDesign’s Text Frame Options dialog box contains a few features/options you may find yourself using often, such as adjusting the column width of your text frame, adding inset spacing, adjusting the frame justification, adjusting your baseline options, and more. There are two ways (I know of) to quickly access the Text Frame Options.
Read more “InDesign Text Frame Options Shortcuts”
Adobe Photoshop
Love the color you see in a video playing in a browser window and want to use it in your current Photoshop document? It’s easy to grab that color without leaving Photoshop or using any third-part tools.
Read more “Grab color from anywhere without leaving Photoshop”
Adobe Photoshop
Using Photoshop Smart Objects is a great way to work non-destructively. You can embed a Smart Object directly in a Photoshop file or link to a separate file and update it and reuse it in multiple projects.
Read more “Photoshop Smart Objects: linked vs. embedded”
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe is like your kids that just can’t stay out of trouble. You love them, but you just want to kill them sometimes (that’s a bit extreme, but you get the idea).
Read more “Adobe is at it again…”
Adobe InDesign
Did you know that Guides in Adobe InDesign will snap to the edge of an object when you have that object selected?
Read more “InDesign Guide Snapping”
General
My mother-in-law’s ancient iMac 21″ finally kicked the bucket. The hard drive crashed and the video card went kaput. I decided to take it apart to see what the computer’s guts looked like.
Read more “Retiring an old iMac”