Align your drop caps
Often when you create a drop cap in InDesign, the left edge of the character isn’t perfectly aligned with the [...]
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Archive for April, 2009
Lose the guides
Did you know that InDesign has a Preview mode? Switching to the Preview mode is an easy way to hide [...]
Grid Place bonus tip
Add the Shift key to the Arrow keys in the above tip to change the amount of space between each [...]
Grid place
In CS4, the multi-file place feature got even better. You can now place all the files in the loaded Place [...]
Proportional place
When you click a loaded Place Gun on a page, InDesign creates a frame that’s the same size as the [...]
Panels only when you want them
I often hide my left and right panels in each of the modules by tapping the Tab key. The panels [...]
The Lightroom Exchange
Visit the Lightroom Exchange by opening the Plug-in Manager (File>Plug-in Manager) and clicking the Plug-in Exchange button. This website lists [...]
Relaunch and optimize your library
In the Catalog Settings dialog (Lightroom [PC: Edit]>Catalog Settings), click the Relaunch and Optimize button at the bottom to let [...]
Choose your background color
In the Slideshow module, you can select a color directly from one of your images to use as the background [...]
Creative compositions
Create two virtual copies (Photo>Create Virtual Copies) of an image, then select all three when using the Triptych template in [...]
Post-crop border effect
In the Develop module, set all of the Post-Crop sliders in the Vignettes panel to the far left to create [...]
Profiles for your camera
Now with Lightroom 2.2, new camera profiles are available natively in the Camera Calibration panel of the Develop module. These [...]
Turn from the dark side
In the Develop module, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on the background that surrounds the image to change it from medium gray [...]
Quickly navigate to recently viewed folders
The filmstrip at the bottom of the Lightroom interface includes a number of navigation tools that are accessible in all [...]
Get smart with your collections
Create a Smart Collection in the Library module to automatically gather a set of images. Just click on the plus [...]
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