Creative Tip: Hold Shift to Snap Guides to Rulers.

This week's creative tip is one of those handy shortcuts you can use all the time. As basic as it is, a lot of us missed this feature along the way.

In many Adobe applications (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), hold down the Shift key while dragging a guide to snap to the nearest ruler mark. The cool part is that your guides snap to the visible tick marks on the ruler whatever the magnification level. Once you've tried it, you'll use this trick every day.

Source: This tip came up during a Q&A session at one of Jason Hoppe's recent weekly mini-workshops.

Tech Tip: Add Translation Links to your Web Site or Blog.

Last week my family and I left for a much anticipated vacation in Italy. But rest assured, before we left town, our team queued up a fun collection of tips to run while we're gone. If everything works properly, those tips should continue to flow uninterrupted each Monday until we return.

In the spirit of travel, we'd like to offer up a tip and tutorial on how to add translation links for international readers of your website. In this example, we'll add a small collection of tiny flags representing different languages. When a reader clicks on a flag, the page is translated using Google's translation services.

Click on a flag to translate this tip into French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, or Chinese. Then read on in your language of choice for details on how to recreate these links yourself.

Full Tip: Add Translation Links to your Web Site or Blog.

Source: The javascript in this tip comes from the answer to How can I add "translate into" country flags to my pages? on the Ask Dave Taylor Q&A site. We covered Google Translate back in QuickTips #86 - Translate foreign language websites.)

Seattle Training: Upcoming Morning Workshops.

Wed, Feb 27 - Using Adobe Bridge.
Thu, Feb 28 - Photoshop CS3: Automating Photoshop.
Wed, Mar 5 - Acrobat: Interactive PDFs.
Thu, Mar 6 - Photoshop CS3: Retouching Digital Anomalies.
Wed, Mar 12 - Using Adobe Lightroom.
Thu, Mar 13- Photoshop: Smart Objects + Shape Layers.

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Vacation Alert!
Your friendly tips-writing staff is on vacation through March 10th. We've queued up some fun tips while we're gone, but we won't be around to thank new Seattle subscribers until we get back. Thanks for your continued referrals, and we look forward to a massive list of names when we return.

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