Adobe Acrobat X Pro Review - CreativePro.com
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Illustrator tips to share..
Show/Hide Bounding Box
Here's a shortcut to show and hide the bounding box (Command-Shift-B; PC: Control-Shift-B). The bounding box is a great way to resize objects without switching to the Scale tool. But do sometimes the bounding box is very distracting, so the option to toggle on/off is quite a useful tip.
Locking/Unlocking Guides
By default, all guides that you add to a document are auto-locked. To unlocking all the guides in one quick step, press Mac: Command-Option-; or PC: Control-Alt-;. To works opposite: Once you've unlocked all the guides, use the same shortcut to lock all guides.
Quick way to delete from the palette
To delete anything from a palette, without getting a dialog like this example asking you to confirm your choice, hold down the Mac: Option key or PC: Alt key as you click on the palette's Trash icon. This applies to brushes, swatches, layers, etc.
Timing is a key factor
One of the important principles of using keyboard modifiers is that the same key will have different effects, depending on when you use it. For example, with the Direct Selection tool (A) active, holding down the Option key (PC: Alt key; MAC: Option key) will select the entire path. If you don't let go of the Option key while you drag and move, you'll get duplicate. So, to move a path without duplicating it, hold the Option key while pressing and click to select the path, release the Alt/Option key before dragging the path and move.
Switching palette's view
Most of the Illustrator palettes have more than one display size, reason for users to save more working space without closing palettes. Multiple sizes in some cases. You can use a palette's flyout menu to choose Show Options or Hide Options, or just to double-click on the tab at the top of each palette. To see if a palette has multiple sizes, just keep double-clicking on the tab to switch among the views size.
Here's a shortcut to show and hide the bounding box (Command-Shift-B; PC: Control-Shift-B). The bounding box is a great way to resize objects without switching to the Scale tool. But do sometimes the bounding box is very distracting, so the option to toggle on/off is quite a useful tip.
Locking/Unlocking Guides
By default, all guides that you add to a document are auto-locked. To unlocking all the guides in one quick step, press Mac: Command-Option-; or PC: Control-Alt-;. To works opposite: Once you've unlocked all the guides, use the same shortcut to lock all guides.
Quick way to delete from the palette
To delete anything from a palette, without getting a dialog like this example asking you to confirm your choice, hold down the Mac: Option key or PC: Alt key as you click on the palette's Trash icon. This applies to brushes, swatches, layers, etc.
Timing is a key factor
One of the important principles of using keyboard modifiers is that the same key will have different effects, depending on when you use it. For example, with the Direct Selection tool (A) active, holding down the Option key (PC: Alt key; MAC: Option key) will select the entire path. If you don't let go of the Option key while you drag and move, you'll get duplicate. So, to move a path without duplicating it, hold the Option key while pressing and click to select the path, release the Alt/Option key before dragging the path and move.
Switching palette's view
Most of the Illustrator palettes have more than one display size, reason for users to save more working space without closing palettes. Multiple sizes in some cases. You can use a palette's flyout menu to choose Show Options or Hide Options, or just to double-click on the tab at the top of each palette. To see if a palette has multiple sizes, just keep double-clicking on the tab to switch among the views size.
Photoshop tips to share...
Optimizing Performance
To reduce start-up time -There are several ways help to launch Photoshop more quickly.
1) Disabling unnecessary plug-in folder by adding tilde(~) in front of plug-in folder.
2) Relocated plug-ins to secondary folder (easier to be done in Mac OS platform). Then, to load back plug-ins, just hold down Ctrl+Shift (Windows), Cmd+Shift (Mac OS) immediately after you launch Photoshop and then specify the additional plug-ins folder when asked.
3) Preferences dialog are saved each time you exit and launch Photoshop. The file sometimes are saved may become corrupted. If that happens, just hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows), Cmd+Opt+Shift (Mac OS), a split second after you launch Photoshop and choose to delete the Preferences when prompted.
4) Layers,Channels and Paths palettes all store thumbnails by default, these thumbnails are continually updated as you work on the image. A way improve the redraw time, you can customize the palette previews size to smaller one by clicking at Palette Options from the palette’s menu choose the smallest on none in size.
5) As we know, in the computer processor basically work as brain, and RAM more likely as heart. All the software in our computer, from the operating system to applications are relied heavily on how much RAM in order to improve the efficiency and speed. To allocate higher RAM in Photoshop, go to Preferences/Memory & Image Cache and specify a percentage (%) in the Memory Usage section of the dialog box.
To reduce start-up time -There are several ways help to launch Photoshop more quickly.
1) Disabling unnecessary plug-in folder by adding tilde(~) in front of plug-in folder.
2) Relocated plug-ins to secondary folder (easier to be done in Mac OS platform). Then, to load back plug-ins, just hold down Ctrl+Shift (Windows), Cmd+Shift (Mac OS) immediately after you launch Photoshop and then specify the additional plug-ins folder when asked.
3) Preferences dialog are saved each time you exit and launch Photoshop. The file sometimes are saved may become corrupted. If that happens, just hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows), Cmd+Opt+Shift (Mac OS), a split second after you launch Photoshop and choose to delete the Preferences when prompted.
4) Layers,Channels and Paths palettes all store thumbnails by default, these thumbnails are continually updated as you work on the image. A way improve the redraw time, you can customize the palette previews size to smaller one by clicking at Palette Options from the palette’s menu choose the smallest on none in size.
5) As we know, in the computer processor basically work as brain, and RAM more likely as heart. All the software in our computer, from the operating system to applications are relied heavily on how much RAM in order to improve the efficiency and speed. To allocate higher RAM in Photoshop, go to Preferences/Memory & Image Cache and specify a percentage (%) in the Memory Usage section of the dialog box.
InDesign tips to share...
Express duplicationThe easiest way to swap the Color Modes
Holding down the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key to drag and
duplicate objects that you may properly know. This powerful Option/
Alt key can perform the same duplication function during other
operations as well, such as, you can hold down the Option/Alt
key as you choose Flip Horizontal from the Control palette menu,
then InDesign will duplicate and then flip the selected frame. Or by
placing the cursor in the X/Y field of the Control palette and change
the value folow by pressing Option/Alt-Enter and InDesign moves a
duplicate of the object to the new location.
To locate missing fonts and to replace
Usually missing fonts will be highlighted in pink with substituted
fonts as indication when documents are opened. To search for
missing fonts and to replace it in the documents entirely, just go
to type menu/find font...then select those uninstalled fonts and
replace with your installed fonts available in your system, then just
click on the "Change All" follow by "Done" buttons.
To swap any of RGB, CMYK, LAB Color mode from the palette,
just hold-Shift and clicking on the color spectrum bar.
If there is gamut warning (the yellow triangle with
exclamation mark), then just to click on the symbol to
force to get to closest color in-gamut.
Find out Color Values
Using eyedropper tool to let you view the exact color used by
clicking on any spot in psd, .tif, or .jpg file.
Rotate Tools Palette
Rotating and elongate the Tools palette in order to
fit to your screen size and maximize the space to suit
your working style. For example, a longer, narrower
Tools palette is good when your screen is small.
To rotate the palette, it can reside at the bottom right
of the screen, where there's usually little action.
Change the orientation in the Preferences dialog box
of interface tab or by double-clicking on the tab of the
Tools palette
Apply Swatches to Frames and Tables
You can easily apply a swatch to any frame or stroke
by just to drag any swatch from the Swatches palette and
dropping it in a frame or on a stroke and tables, even
able apply to any table cell or cell border.
Control Palette Navigation
When using Control Palette, you can choose to dock the
Control Palette at the top, bottom or as a floating palette
of your screen. To jump easily to the first field in the
Control palette, just to press Command/Ctrl-6.
From the first field, use Shift-Tab to highlight the setting
box and with the arrow keys to highlight a specific setting
and press the Enter key to select.
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