Archive for December, 2009

Selectively override Adobe InDesign Master Page items

Selectively override Adobe InDesign Master Page items

InDesign’s Master Pages are quite powerful, and make long documents easy to keep consistent. They do have their difficulties though when you try to alter items that are contained on the Master Pages themselves.

InDesign master page override

Easily override InDesign's Master Page items

The easy fix is to select all the pages you want to alter the Master Page items on in the Pages panel (Shift + Click to select more than one, or Command + Click to select noncontiguous pages), then select Override All Master Page Items from the Pages panel flyout menu.

12/31/2009 Read More
Shortcut to Photoshop’s Fill dialog box

Shortcut to Photoshop’s Fill dialog box

Rather than using your mouse to invoke Photoshop’s color/patter Fill dialog box, you can use the quick keyboard shortcut, which is Shift + Delete.

12/30/2009 Read More
How to easily install extensions in Google Chromium for Mac OS X

How to easily install extensions in Google Chromium for Mac OS X

Google recently released the first public beta of their Chrome browser for Mac. While it’s speedy as heck, it lacks many basic features such as bookmark management/organization. Another popular feature the Mac version lacks is extension support. That is, until now.

12/28/2009 Read More
Happy Holidays from The Graphic Mac!

Happy Holidays from The Graphic Mac!

Merry Christmas from The Graphic Mac As Christmas day approaches, I want to thank everyone who has visited The Graphic Mac – and wish you all a safe and joyous holiday. I hope you all get everything from Santa that you had on your wish list!

12/22/2009 Read More
Free Christmas images from Smashing Mag

Free Christmas images from Smashing Mag

Free Christmas images Smashing Magazine is offering a handful of free Christmas theme images for download. You can grab them here.

12/21/2009 Read More
Stop InDesign from converting graphic frames to text frames

Stop InDesign from converting graphic frames to text frames

A feature I love about InDesign is the ability to click any graphic frame with the text tool and begin typing in it immediately. However, not everyone likes their graphic frames converted to a text frame automatically. InDesign text frame preferences For those who wish to turn the feature off, simply visit your InDesign preferences (Command + K) and select Type in the source list on the left. Then uncheck the box labeled “Type Tool Converts Frames to Text Frames.”

12/16/2009 Read More
Free Font: Junction

Free Font: Junction

Free font download The League of Movable Type has released Junction, a beautiful sans serif typeface with an old-style serif look to it. Junction is an OpenType font with upper and lower case letters, punctuation and numbers; and is free to use for personal and commercial projects.

12/14/2009 Read More
Mac Heads: Mac users are a LITTLE strange

Mac Heads: Mac users are a LITTLE strange

I must admit, Mac users are a bit strange… or at least, some of them are. Here’s the one hour documentary film, MacHeads, that covers the life and times of Mac users.

12/08/2009 Read More