Some new filters join us in Photoshop CS6 – amongst them the Blur Gallery. Get the Blur Gallery filters into focus (geddit!) with this short vid from ACI Andrew.
Posted in Video Tutorial on April 30, 2012
Adobe have just released the beta for a product (code named) Muse. It’s aim is to let graphic designers design HTML sites using the kind of drag and drop interface you get in InDesign or Quark.
The plan is to make it really easy for a designer to pick up Muse and make a site without knowing any HTML, CSS or javaScript. This sort of things been tried before… How does the beta fare?
Posted in Web Development on August 17, 2011
One of the nice things about InDesign upgrades is that usually there’s a few subtle features that don’t immediately shout out at you – but over time – you wonder how you ever put up with anything less. One of these is InDesign CS5′s Auto Fit feature. In previous versions of InDesign resizing image frames [...]
Posted in Adobe InDesign and tagged with Auto Fit, CS5 enhancements, Images, Layout, Workflow on July 28, 2011
Making selections of whispy hair and fly-away fur was never no fun.. Fur instance, these here Meercats. Now Photoshop CS5′s radical Refine Edges command changes the game. Complex selections have never been less complex!
Posted in Adobe Photoshop and tagged with CS5, maks, quick selection tool, selections on July 2, 2011
Hidden away in Photoshop CS5 comes a cute way of selecting colours in Photoshop that not everyone knows about…
Posted in Adobe Photoshop on June 21, 2011
Don’t know your Spot from your Process? Avoid expensive and embarrassing mistakes when you’re creating colour for print layouts in Adobe InDesign…
Posted in Adobe InDesign and tagged with cmyk, lab, Pantone, print, rgb, Separations, spot colour, swatches on June 20, 2011
No more background images – no more *&&&%ing about in Photoshop – use CSS3 to create in-browser gradients and find tools to generate them..
Posted in CSS on June 5, 2011
Vary your sites typographical range – Google Web Fonts help you escape from endless, endless Arial.
Posted in CSS,Web Development and tagged with Fonts, Google, Typekit on June 2, 2011
Watch out! One of Dreamweaver CS5′s most appealing new features is broken by turning on pretty permalinks in WordPress…
Posted in Adobe Dreamweaver,WordPress and tagged with Development, Dreamweaver, Permalinks on June 1, 2011
People seem to keep forgetting to do this before they start working in Dreamweaver. Folks, you’ve gotta Define a Site before you start or things just won’t work out. Check it out.
Posted in Adobe Dreamweaver and tagged with Define Sites, DW, Things that go wrong in Dreamweaver on May 31, 2011