A few years ago I worked at a place with frequent internet outages. This was the first time I noticed how refreshing it can be to be disconnected for a while. People, after a few minutes of frustration not being able to access their profile pages and their email, started to talk to each other. Others managed to really focus on their work for the first time in days. I got more work done in these internet breaks than throughout the rest of the week. This is when I realized how important it is to be able to focus on the task at hand without distractions.

Since CS3 Illustrator has received powerful color manipulation tools that are relatively little known. Select the menu Edit/ Edit Colors/ Recolor Artwork to discover a plethora of features.

In the Edit tab you can change the brightness, hue and many other aspects of several selected objects at once. It also allows you to create color harmonies with a color wheel besides other cool features.

In the Assign tab you can recolor your entire job with a new set of colors using the color groups functions.

When I launched InDesign CS4 for the first time, it took all of about ten seconds to see that I was going to like what I found. After a few hours of using it, my suspicions were confirmed. Every release of InDesign has brought new and improved features and speed bumps, but none have brought more than Adobe’s latest offering of its flagship page layout application.

While InDesign CS4 offers a host of small improvements and additions, such as inline notes, an improved Story Editor, contact-sheet placement, and a new zoom method, and numerous other small additions, I’m going to focus on some of the major additions that will interest virtually every graphic designer and production artist.

These new features include a new graphical user interface, rotatation of page views, smart layout features, Kuler integration, Flash export, and more.

Read Adobe InDesign CS4 first look.

Have you ever had a problem like the the picture above in InDesign?

All those red zones are above 300% inkt percentage.

So you need to change those percentages, there are a lot of ways of doing it, with profiles and so on…

I found an interesting way in Photoshop. Here it is…