Here’s a light InDesign tip for any designers finding themselves cranking out the occasional old-school direct mail letter. You can easily create a “yellow highlighter” character style with InDesign’s Custom Underline feature. While the effect itself is a bit cheesy, the technique does let us demonstrate a few shortcuts using InDesign’s character styles.

Starting in August, Creativetechs is offering weekly, mini-workshops every Wednesday morning in our office.

Here’s the pitch: Join us Wednesday mornings at 9:30am, pick up a couple new skills, and get back to work before lunch. You can put what you learned into use the same day. The cost is $50 per workshop.

Photoshop provides a neutral gray canvas around your images when you work in full screen mode, or when you zoom out so the image is smaller than your document window. Have you ever wished you could change the color of this default grey? There’s and easy way, and although most people don’t know the trick, […]

A couple months ago our production and training guru, Jason Hoppe, developed a great series of “What’s New in CS3” booklets for our summer workshops at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts. If you missed out (or don’t live in the Seattle area) here are the PDFs for you to download: What’s New in Photoshop CS3.pdf […]

Two weeks ago we ran a tip on how to remove unwanted people from public photos. Apparently, it’s a popular topic — that post received almost 20,000 visitors in the first 10 days. Less than a week after publishing that tip, I ran across another technique using Photoshop CS3 Extended that makes the process virtually […]

Here is the Creative Sweet TV podcast that was a partial inspiration for this week’s tip: Photoshop CS3’s Automatic People Remover. Australian trainer Mike McHugh is the host of this entertaining and informative Adobe CS3 Podcast.

It takes a lot of time to add bookmarks, hyperlinks, form fields, buttons, and other interactive elements to a PDF. Inevitably however, you’ll need to change your design. How can you update your PDF when the original layout is modified?

We’ll often catch designers painstakingly copying form fields from the old PDF into a newly created PDF — or worse, rebuilding all those interactive elements by hand. There is a much easier way.