How to smooth skin in Photoshop.
October 90-Minute Mini-Workshops.
Join us at the Creativetechs office Wednesday mornings 9:30am to 11am. Pick up a couple new skills, and get back to work before lunch. You can put what you learn into use the same day.
The cost is $50 per workshop.
Thanks to everyone who helped make last month such a success. We continue to get rave reviews of our new 90-minute morning workshops. It seems the short format is really working for people. Here is the new lineup for October and November.
Firefox Can’t Reach Internet?
With great standards-compliance and cross-platform support, Firefox is becoming the browser of choice not just for end-users but for many web developers as well. Once it’s deployed inside some corporate networks, the Macintosh edition can’t see past the firewall.
Firefox may be an excellent internet citizen, but it doesn’t follow Macintosh standards too closely. Among the conventions it ignores are the Proxy settings in the Network pane of System Preferences. Instead, Firefox keeps it’s own proxy settings hidden, three levels down in its own preferences. This is the most common reason Firefox can’t seem to load web sites when Safari can.
To solve the problem, go to the Firefox menu and select “Preferences…”, choosing the “Advanced” button at the top of the resulting window. Then from the row of tabs, select “Network” and click “Settings…” to bring up the proxy configuration panel. From there it’s easy to fill in your proxy addresses, and your Firefox users will be back online.
Acrobat 8’s new Automatic Form Recognition
Retouching Skin Workshop – October 3, 2007
Each Wednesday morning, Creativetechs hosts a new 90-minute mini-workshop in our training room in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.
Join us Wednesday mornings 9:30am to 11am. Pick up a couple new skills, and get back to work before lunch. You can put what you learn into use the same day. The cost is $50 per workshop.
On October 3, we have a particularly fun topic. Our master retoucher, Jason Hoppe, will be leading a special workshop on retouching skin in Photoshop. This workshop demonstrates a wide range of techniques for dealing with the unique challenges involved in retouching faces and bodies.
Find what Macs are sharing over your network.
InDesign CS3’s great Multiplace-and-Replace.
Control multiple Macs using one keyboard with Teleport.
Photoshop lets you extract images from PDFs.
Every now and then I’ll come across a tip that makes me slap my forehead and ask “How did I miss that one?”
Photoshop CS3 and CS2 both let you easily extract images that are embedded in PDF documents. Next time you open a PDF file in Photoshop CS3, look at the top of the import window that normally displays a preview of all the available pages in your PDF. Click on the Images radio button and you’ll be presented with a list of all the images embedded in that PDF.
Tip: In Photoshop CS2, the Images option is hidden under a pop-up menu.
Choose the image you want and click the OK button to open it. You can then save it in any file format you like.
Watch for Seattle’s Ponytailed Software Geek!
This week in Seattle watch for Metro busses carrying a new “Northwest Profiles” campaign for PEMCO Insurance. We mention this for three reasons:
#1: PEMCO Insurance is our client. We’ve supported their Mac-based in-house design department for years.
#2: The Seattle ad agency DNA Brand Mechanics, who helped create this new campaign, is also one of our long-standing clients.
#3: That’s our own hardware-guru Jasson Lewellen, proudly portrayed in Northwest Profile 12, as the “Ponytailed Software Geek
You can see more of Jasson by visiting PEMCO’s We’re A Lot Like You website and clicking on his profile.
