Search for anything.

Your search for: "" revealed the following:

Search...
CreativeTechs

Need Help?

206-682-4315

CreativeTechs
CreativeTechs
  • All things Apple
  • News
  • Recycling Program
  • Products we love
CreativeTechs
CreativeTechs

Your search for: "" revealed the following:

Search...

Your search for: "" revealed the following:

Search...
Recent Updates
  • Invest Smart, Grow Fast: Your Small Business Guide to IT Expense Planning September 15, 2025
  • Keep Sensitive Data Private by Disabling AI Training Options September 5, 2025
  • Watch What You Say in AI-Recorded Meetings September 2, 2025
  • Stop Account Hacks: The Advanced Guide to Protecting Your Small Business Logins August 25, 2025
  • Overconfident employees: Your hidden cyber security threat? July 3, 2025
  • AI for Efficiency: How to Automate Daily Tasks and Free Up Your Time (Without a Huge Budget) July 3, 2025
  • A Small Business Guide to Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) July 1, 2025
Get your Security Policy
Topics

Your search for: "" revealed the following:

Search...
Recent Posts
  • Free A person calculating finances with a calculator and pen on a desk indoors. Stock Photo
    Invest Smart, Grow Fast: Your Small Business Guide to IT Expense Planning
    Sep 15 2025
  • Keep Sensitive Data Private by Disabling AI Training Options
    Keep Sensitive Data Private by Disabling AI Training Options
    Sep 05 2025
  • Watch What You Say in AI-Recorded Meetings
    Watch What You Say in AI-Recorded Meetings
    Sep 02 2025
Tag
Apple Apple Blogs Article Backup CS4 events Flash free games Google halloween holiday HomeKit HomePod how icloud InDesign iOS iPad iPhone keynote Mac macOS mail media mode News papercraft password PDF Phishing Photography purchasing restart safe search security Siri terminal to Utilities video web design Wi-Fi Word

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 […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
February 10, 2008
0
Share:

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 […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
February 9, 2008
0
Share:

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 […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
February 3, 2008
0
Share:

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 […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
February 3, 2008
0
Share:

Creating an In-House Stock Photo Library.

Keywording-Inhouse.png

Most in-house creative teams face the issue of corporate images scattered throughout their department. Each designer ends up with a different assortment of photos they’ve compiled over the years. Collections of photos end up stored in individual project folders — even if those same images end up linked later to a dozen other projects.

Over the last several years at Creativetechs, we’ve helped a lot of in-house creative teams develop image management and keywording strategies get control over their unwieldily image collections. In the end, they create something like their own private in-house stock image library.

Read More
Tim Pearson
January 27, 2008
0
Share:

Larger Studios, Don’t install Office 2008 (Yet).

The new Mac version of Microsoft Office 2008 has started arriving at our client’s studios. While we generally reserve judgement on the inevitable antidotal list of problems that accompany any new software release, there is a significant enough problem with the current Office 2008 installer that we’re recommending larger design studios hold off installing it […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
January 26, 2008
0
Share:

The Best Auto-Trace Available.

VectorMagic.gif

Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has developed an online autotrace tool that is dramatically more accurate than the LiveTrace tool available in Adobe Illustrator, or the old Adobe Streamline utility that some designers still have lurking around their hard drive. Even better it’s free! VectorMagic is available as an online tool on their website:

vectormagic.stanford.edu

You upload your bitmap image, answer a couple questions about the original image, and the system creates a vector EPS version that you can download and edit. Their example results are stunning, and from our own experiments at Creativetechs with a few real-world projects, the results are impressive.

The interface is fairly straight-forward. But if you get lost they also have a quick 3-minute video tutorial showing the system in action. Give it a shot.

Read More
Tim Pearson
January 20, 2008
0
Share:

Play almost any video file on your Mac.

We field a lot of troubleshooting calls over the course of a year from Mac-based art directors experiencing problems playing movie files sent to them by Windows-based clients, or viewing video clips from certain local TV news websites. There are two essential (and free) utilities that will solve a host of incompatible video problems with […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
January 13, 2008
0
Share:

Avoiding the “White Box” around shadows in Acrobat PDFs.

A tips reader wrote us this week: “I have an issue with drop shadows and spot colors in Adobe InDesign. When I use a drop shadow in front of a spot color background it looks fine in InDesign, and prints properly as spot color separations. But a white box shows up around the image in […]
Read More
Tim Pearson
January 12, 2008
0
Share:

Seattle Events: Leopard Server Workshops

LeopardServerBox.png

Mac OS X Leopard Server was released in October 2007. Creativetechs’ Enterprise Consultant, Jordan Bojar, has developed a special series of hands-on workshops that dig into the most important new features, and covers in detail how they impact larger creative teams in the Seattle area.

Read More
Tim Pearson
January 6, 2008
0
Share:
1 … 90 91 92 … 114
help@creativetechs.com

206-682-4315

© 2025 The Mac Men LLC, DBA CreativeTechs Support.