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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 application (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), hold down the Shift key while dragging a guide to snap to the nearest ruler mark. The […]
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Tim Pearson
February 25, 2008
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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 […]
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Tim Pearson
February 25, 2008
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Design Police Proofing Stickers.

Presidents’ Day (today) is a national holiday in the United States. In honor of the extended weekend, here is a fun project. Design-Police.org has created a great “visual enforcement kit” that includes a wide number of stickers. Download the PDF, print them out, and help bring bad design to justice: Design-Police.org For even more fun, […]
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Tim Pearson
February 18, 2008
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Add an Acrobat Stamp to Your PDF Proofs.

Back in January 2007, we published a tip showing how to use PDF watermarks to add studio-branded “proof” stickers to the PDFs you send clients (Add proofing messages with PDF watermarks). That’s been a popular tip over the last year. This week we’d like to provide an updated tutorial showing how you can do the […]
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Tim Pearson
February 18, 2008
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February 2008 Mini-Workshop Schedule!

TrainingCatalog-Feb08.jpgCreativetechs is taking a different approach to professional training. We’ve organized our materials into dozens of smaller, bite-sized modules. The results are shorter, focused sessions, which let you get the training you need, without setting aside an entire day away from the office.

Download a PDF of our Training Brochure and see what upcoming workshops catch your eye. Then join us Wednesday and Thursday mornings for the fun:

Creativetechs Training Feb08.pdf

Missed a good one? All our topics are available for one-on-one training. Email training@creativetechs.com or call 206-682-4315 to schedule a personalized training session.

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Tim Pearson
February 10, 2008
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Convert Quark, InDesign, Publisher, FrameMaker, etc.

Over the years, our team fields lots of questions from clients needing to convert documents from one page layout program to another. For this tip we’ve compiled a number of utilities we’ve used and recommended. Q2ID — QuarkXpress to InDesign ID2Q — InDesign to QuarkXPress PUB2ID — Microsoft Publisher to InDesign PM2Q — PageMaker to […]
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Tim Pearson
February 10, 2008
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Convert FreeHand files into InDesign using PDF2ID.

Last year we published a tip about Adobe dropping development and support for Macromedia FreeHand (Goodbye FreeHand. But is Illustrator Enough?). In that tip, we argued that most die-hard FreeHand users are happier and more productive switching to Adobe InDesign rather than Illustrator. Since then, we’ve been looking for a method to help designers migrate […]
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Tim Pearson
February 9, 2008
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Photoshop Opaque-to-Transparent Shadow Trick.

Saturday was Groundhog Day. In a national media event, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, leading the groundhog to forecast six more weeks of winter. And speaking of shadows… Have you ever found yourself with a Photoshop image that has an object’s shadow on an opaque white background, when what you need is that same shadow […]
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Tim Pearson
February 3, 2008
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Create a Favicon for your Web site.

A favicon is an icon you can design for your website that shows up next to the URL when someone visits. Think of it as a tiny visual business card for your Web site. Think of it as a tiny visual business card for your Web site. You can create one by visiting Genfavicon, a […]
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Tim Pearson
February 3, 2008
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