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Graphics

Free 10 Week Flash classes from CreativeTechs

July 2, 2009

I took part in the 10-Week Photoshop Course, and am doing a 10-Week Illustrator Course in progress now. They are great! A 10-Week Flash Course is starting July 14, and more info can be found here: http://creativetechs.com/freeflashcourse.
I found the teaching methodology to be very good for me… your milage may vary. The ability to communicate [...]

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Saving images as jpegs, and saving again…

March 24, 2009

OK, most of us know that we should not take a jpeg image and save it, edit it and save again.
Want to know why? Here’s a little video called Generation Loss by hadto ib vimeo. He saved a jpeg, and saved again with slightly more compression. 600 times! And made the individual images into a [...]

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Special Character Shortcuts

August 25, 2008

Where’s the Ơ? or the Ű??
John Brandt’s Special Character Shortcuts
John Brandt’s Special Character Shortcuts is a great tool, a comprehensive PDF showing how to find nearly any special character in any font on either Mac or Windows. The 16-page PDF includes cheatsheets for accented characters, ligatures, punctuation, currency, legal symbols, math, and greek symbols. Print [...]

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10.5.2 Finder issue, and slow Adobe fix

February 25, 2008

MacFixit’s lead article today addressed a couple of dissimilar subjects, unusually.
First, in some cases the finder may not load after connecting a 3rd-party external drive. The menu bar may “flicker” or desktop icons may disappear and reappear. The article has a link to solutions, which include making sure the computer name in Sharing prefs is [...]

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iPhoto 08 tutorial – Master your image library (link)

February 25, 2008

Macworld.com has a very interesting article posted 21 February, explaining how to use the new features in iPhoto 08 to keep your images organized effectively. See the article here.
Importing your photos is very different. You can now import just the photos you want from your camera or memory card. Command-click on the photos you want, [...]

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Adobe Stock Photos discontinued as of April 1

February 11, 2008

Adobe announced that its Adobe Stock Photos service will be discontinued as of the first of April, and just released an Adobe Stock Photos for Macintosh uninstaller. According to Adobe, this permanently removes the service from Bridge CS3, as well as certain functionality associated with your comp and purchased images, including the ability to “Get Price & [...]

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Adobe Acrobat Pro vs. 8.1.2 is released!

February 9, 2008

Adobe released Adobe Acrobat Pro version 8.1.2 on Feb. 6, to address the issues Acrobat had with Leopard. It also resolves several PDF forms-related issues, and should be more stable. For all those who were reluctant to upgrade to Leopard because Acrobat is an essential tool, the wait is over! Or so Adobe says. I [...]

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