Illustrator CS6 – Amazing New Pattern Tool

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Mar 182013
 

One of the most amazing new features of CS6 Illustrator is the new pattern tool. It’s surprisingly easy to use, so let’s go ahead!

 

The first thing I’m going to do is create the shape I want to use for the pattern and I’ve created just a very quick flower shape, which I have dragged and dropped into the swatches panel. Do make sure that your shape, you’re going to use, doesn’t already contain a pattern.

 

Initial Shape into Swatches

Initial Shape into Swatches

Basic Pattern

Basic Pattern

Pattern Options Panel

Pattern Options Panel

Brick Offset Option

Brick Offset Option

Change Overlap

Change Overlap

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Quick Overview of the Amazing New Pattern Tool … that Adobe should have introduced many years ago!

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Feb 282013
 

As many of you, who have been creating patterns know, creating a decent repetition in Illustrator has always been a lot of hard work. Trying to make your pattern not look too rigid, did require creating a number of copies of the object to be ‘patterned’, offset them, draw a rectangle around the area to be repeated and sending it to the back! If your rectangle was not absolutely perfect your repeat would not look right and you would have weird overlaps.

All this is now gone with the new Pattern Tool.  Read more...

Still haven’t upgraded to Photoshop CS6?

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Jan 102013
 

If you still haven’t upgraded to Photoshop CS6, and are wondering whether you should consider, let me give you some of the amazing new features that I find useful, to help you make a decision.

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Probably, one of the best things they’ve done in Photoshop, is something that you won’t see. How many times have you been working on a document only to have Photoshop crash and you lose all your work?!  Read more...

InDesign CS6 New features, PDF Forms

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Jun 222012
 

InDesign has always been an excellent application for generating forms but, until now, adding the form fields themselves had to be done in Acrobat Professional, a process that could be time consuming, especially if you were creating complex forms. InDesign CS6 now includes built-in form field support, making form creation much easier and faster.

In this example I am using a quote request form for a fictional design company

The form has been designed and text boxes have been drawn in the areas designated for responses.

Screenshot of InDesign form

InDesign form

To convert the text boxes to form fields, select Window>Interactive>Buttons and Forms.  Read more...

What’s new in DreamWeaver CS6

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Apr 232012
 

dreamweaver cs6 iconIf you are wondering what’s new in DreamWeaver CS6, here is a run down of some of the new features in the CS6 version of DreamWeaver. From updated live view to fluid grid layout these make it easier and quicker to produce quality content with particular enhancements for mobile app development.

The new features in the CS6 version of DreamWeaver include:  Read more...

What’s new in InDesign CS6

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Apr 232012
 

InDesign CS6 IconFind out what’s new in InDesign CS6 with our run down on the latest features that have been introduced.
The chances are these days you are developing content for a variety of different devices and screen sizes and InDesign CS6 makes it easier than ever to make that job simple.

Some of the new features introduced include:  Read more...

What’s new in Photoshop CS6

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Apr 232012
 

Photoshop CS6 IconIf you have been wondering what’s new in Photoshop CS6 – wonder no more. Adobe have now announced Photoshop CS6 which includes some nice new features to make life easier and quicker for everybody that uses it.

We have listed some of the newer features below:  Read more...