Are you working on a product packaging job? Here’s a way to combine digital product photography and Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create quick virtual prototypes. The process is fairly easy once you ...
Two designers walk into a bar and sit down with their Powerbooks. One designer says to the other, “How much you want to bet I can correct the highlight and shadow of this image without using any ...
Yes, we will have Rosetta and it’s going to make Intel Macs backward compatible, so you don’t have to purchase a new version of your softwares, ...
InDesign’s nested style feature is very powerful, but not too many people I’ve spoke with have really put it to use. It can save you hours of wasted time formatting. For example, consider ...
This is a collection of 10 useful tips to help you make your work more productive and easier. Many of them are for advanced users so I will not cover all the details on how to use specific functions ...
Ok… I was designing a credit card for a new client using provided, hi-res photos of a pile of US Currency when I got this error:
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After doing a little ...
This is going to be a fairly brief article about encoding music, sound quality and how to get the most useful results.
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Following on from a previous article on [url=https://creativebits.org/toolbar_icon_design_in_OSX]toolbar icon design[/url] we’re going to tackle it’s ...
Aperture arrived at stores across the country yesterday, and today, I got my very own copy!
It looks very good, runs fast, ooh yeah and I got it to work on my “old” Power Mac (by my definition, ...
I frequently refer to the date and time in the menubar. I was looking for the option to put the date next to time, so that I can avoid clicking the date to bring up the drop-down menu which shows the date. There is no easy straightforward way, but I found a small trick that enables me to customize the field fully without much interference to the system. See the example of my menubar above.
First you have to open System Preferences/ International and choose the Formats tab. If you click customize at Times you will find several formats of time that can be customized: short, medium, ...
Jennifer from the Photoshop blog recommends a great set of brushes for the upcoming Christmas jobs you will surely be getting.
The Snow & Flakes Brush Set contains 10 individual brushes and is a real winter wonderland of snowy images, featuring icy trees, perfectly exquisite snow flakes, intricate ice crystals and more. ...