Don’t touch your Mac during Software Updates.
Photoshop Techniques circa 1995!
Digging through an old server in the Creativetechs network closet, we unearthed copies of Photoshop Techniques — a newsletter we published years ago in the younger days of Adobe Photoshop.
With all the buzz in our office around Adobe’s upcoming launch of Creative Suite 3, we thought it would be fun to dust off the old files and publish the whole collection in PDF format.
Remember when a beveled edge took four pages of detailed steps?
Manage multiple libraries in iTunes 7.
DST changes and Microsoft Entourage.
Free software training in Seattle.
Update: All the free sessions have been snatched up. If you missed out, drop us an email us at at training@creativetechs.com. If there is enough interest, we might add a couple more days to Jason’s schedule.
In February, Creativetechs welcomed Jason Hoppe into our growing support team. Jason provides high end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and other creative workflow management consulting.
Many of our clients aren’t yet used to calling Creativetechs when they need software training or production support. So to kick things off, we’re offering free training sessions for our Seattle-area membership clients:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
QuarkXPressAdobe Acrobat
Studio Color
Management
E-Pro Workflow
(General)
E-Pro for Microsoft
Vendors
We’ve set aside 4 days through April, and have 16 11 7 5 4 only 2 no more open slots (sorry). We’ll come out to your office. You pick the 1-hour session of your choice. This offer is open for all current Creativetechs member clients.
Not a Creativetechs member client? You can still qualify for a free session — but there is a catch. Read on for full details.
Stop Entourage background disk churning.
Get to know InDesign’s Info Palette.
InDesign’s humble Info palette may not inspire a lot of interest at first. But take a moment to explore some of the handy details it provides. Once you get used to the variety of information it can display you’ll be heading there all the time.
To show the Info pallette, choose Window > Info from the top menu bar.
The information displayed in this palette changes depending on the object you are working with in InDesign. You can use the Info palette to quickly check the printing resolution of placed graphics, get a quick word count on text, or other handy details.
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 to be announced March 27.
Adobe will launch formally announce Adobe Creative Suite 3 at a special event in New York on March 27. (Update: The software will not ship until later in Spring 2007.)
This will be the first Universal Binary version of Creative Suite, and Adobe is calling the event the largest software release in its history. If you’ve been looking for an excuse to finally buy that Mac Pro, this could be it.
While we wait, enjoy an Adobe UK video teaser: What’s in the Box?
Convert scans to searchable PDFs in Acrobat.
This is one of those tips that is hard to describe or visualize. But when we demonstrate it to someone new, we usually hear “Wow, that’s cool.”
Adobe Acrobat Pro includes a special OCR (Optical character recognition) feature you can use to convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs. The twist with Acrobat Pro is that instead of converting your scan to a straight text file, you can leave the visual appearance of your scanned document untouched, and yet the text itself becomes selectable and searchable in Acrobat.
