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Photoshop CS3’s Automatic People Remover.

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 […]
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Tim Pearson
July 29, 2007
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Photoshop People Remover – The Video.

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.
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Tim Pearson
July 29, 2007
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Find Mac OS X’s hidden UPS options.

An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is the only way to make sure your studio’s servers receive clean, sufficient, and consistent power. In the past, configuring an UPS for Macintosh required tedious fiddling with dubious third-party software. Now the functionality is built directly into the operating system, and the most challenging part of the process is finding exactly where Apple hid those controls.

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Tim Pearson
July 29, 2007
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How does your website rank on Alexa.com?

Curious how your website traffic compares to your competition? Alexa.com offers a fascinating ranking measurement that lets you pull up the traffic history for any website you wish.

https://www.alexa.com/

Think of Alexa.com as a form of Nielsen Ratings for websites. Alexa collects traffic data from users who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their web browser. The resulting traffic data is flawed — yet while not completely accurate, this information does provide a useful tool for designers tasked with improving their client’s competitive web positioning.

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Tim Pearson
July 22, 2007
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Update PDF Forms with Acrobat’s Replace Pages.

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.

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Tim Pearson
July 22, 2007
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Microsoft Office for Mac won’t save to your server?

Your creative team is working feverishly, when suddenly people can’t save their Office documents to the server. A cryptic error message appears when they try:

“There has been a network or file permission error.
The network connection may be lost.”

No matter what you do, you can’t seem to get Word or Excel to save to your network shares. You’ve gone over the machines repeatedly, and everything is set up properly. Worse still, the problem’s intermittent. The errors often surface when your people are busiest, but sometimes days go by without any problems.

There is an explanation. What your team may be suffering from is an unfortunate side-effect of how Microsoft Office for Mac handles its temporary files. If your team is suffering from this problem, we have a somewhat technical description of the cause, with some options on how to address it.

Make Mac Work: Office Won’t Save To Server.

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Tim Pearson
July 15, 2007
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Remove unwanted people from public photos.

This tip comes in handy for graphic designers who need a quick way to get pedestrian-free photographs of their signage or environmental projects. There is a classic digital photography technique for removing unwanted people: Take several shots of the same scene using a tripod — then layer those photos in Photoshop. People move around between […]
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Tim Pearson
July 15, 2007
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Photoshop Brush Tool Cheatsheet.

How much useful information can you fit onto a standard 3×5 index card? That’s the challenge our Adobe Expert, Jasson Hoppe, takes on each month with his growing collection of Photoshop cheatsheets.

This month’s tiny cheatsheet contribution covers shortcuts and tricks for Photoshop’s Brush Tool:

Photoshop Brush Cheatsheet.pdf

On there own, these small quick-reference guides are handy to have around. But stay tuned as we add more each month. Soon you’ll have your own small 3×5 flipbook with the best shortcuts and tricks for all of Photoshop’s tools.

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Tim Pearson
July 8, 2007
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Basic Workstation Settings Cheatsheet.

For this month’s technical cheatsheet, we have a simple form to help capture those crucial details for each user’s computer in your office. The form includes the most commonly needed network and email settings for each user. Basic stuff, but important when you need to do some quick troubleshooting. Workstation Settings Cheatsheet.pdf These simple cheatsheets […]
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Tim Pearson
July 8, 2007
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Hide all palettes fast. Except your toolbox!

Everyone knows that tapping the Tab key is the quick way to temporarily hide all open palettes in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator. But press Shift+Tab instead and you can keep your Toolbox and Options bar, while the other palettes are hidden!
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Tim Pearson
July 2, 2007
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