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| CreativeTechs QuickTips #192 | Week of March 24, 2008 |
Creative
Tip: Turn
Photoshop Layers On/Off in InDesign.
InDesign lets you control the visibility of layers in your placed Photoshop graphics. That can be pretty handy when you find yourself designing a series of related ads that require minor changes to the same image. In InDesign, select a placed Photoshop graphic and choose Object > Object Layer Options. This gives you a dialog box where you can toggle the eyeball next to any layer to turn it on or off. In this example, a image of clam chowder was used for a variety of ads. Some layouts needed a yellow background at the top half of the page, while others used the existing background. An extra spoon was added for some versions. Using this technique, a single layered Photoshop file was used for all versions of the ad.
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This tip comes from Jason Hoppe's mini-workshop Mastering Layers:
InDesign, Illustrator & Acrobat. This popular session covered the
many surprising ways layers interact between different Adobe CS3
applications. If you missed it the first time around, we're planning
to bring this workshop back in May. Keep an eye on the "Upcoming
Weekly Workshops" list at the bottom of each week's newsletter.
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Tech
Tip: Hide
your desktop shame with Camouflage.
Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage, a free utility from Briksoftware, is the right tool for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper. It's the digital equivalent of sweeping everything under your bed. Camouflage does more than cover up the desktop files. Double-click on your newly immaculate desktop, and the Finder opens the list of all your desktop items in a new window. I've run this on my MacBook Pro for about a month and it has turned out to be a lot more useful than I had expected. Source: Mentioned by Cory Bohon on TUAW. Sadly, creating the screenshot for this tip did not require much preparation on my part. |
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