Whilst InDesign is generally pretty stable I do sometimes come across people who have an issue with InDesign crashing repeatedly. There are a few things you can do to stop this, other than simply reinstalling InDesign. RESTART THE MACHINE OK it sounds kind of obvious, but one thing you could do it restart the computer […]
Adobe Comp CC is a new app for the iPad which Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers can download and use. Comp lets you create layouts on your iPad quickly and easily, allowing you to pull in assets from your CC libraries, such as images, vector artwork and colour swatches. These layouts can then be pushed out […]
Transform Each – transforming multiple objects with greater control Illustrator has a number of powerful functions nested away in its many sub-menus and if you aren’t the kind of person who naturally likes to have a snoop around you could be missing out. Today I want to show you the Transform Each function, a powerful […]
Where’s my Swatch gone? How to stop your Swatches disappearing when you quit Illustrator Have you ever wondered why all the lovely Gradients, Colours and Brushes you had loaded the night before have all disappeared when you relaunch Illustrator in the morning? You’ve been hard at work all day loading in custom libraries as you […]
Get Faster with Graphic Styles Graphic Styles in Illustrator are great way to store Appearance settings so they can be re-used within a single document, across several documents or even shared with others when working on collaborative projects. Today’s post is a Quick-Tip aimed at those already familiar with the process of using Graphic Styles […]
Some time back I was training an advanced InDesign course, and one of trainees had come across a problem and asked me for advice. The problem she had come across was, whenever she imported Excel documents into InDesign, the dates switched formats. What was happening was that the date was formatted within Excel as an […]
I come across some entertaining stuff while I am browsing various photography and design related sites, and one that I always find quite amusing is forced perspective photography.If you haven’t come across this before it is a photography technique that involves using optical illusions to make objects appear nearer or farther away than they actually […]
If you’re the kind of person who can’t stand unbalanced text, you might recall the days when it took a fair bit of manual adjustment to make text columns line up evenly. Fortunately InDesign CC 2014 (actually it’s been in here since CS5) has a nice balance columns checkbox which is found in the Text […]
Using Photoshop generally means using a brush at some point, and not just for painting. Several tools within Photoshop also use a brush – Eraser, Dodge, Burn, etc. Here are some useful shortcuts when using a tool that uses brushes… CONSTRAINING BRUSHES Click, let go and shift – click elsewhere in your document and you […]