This FREE guide offers excellent technical information regarding the Acrobat X Printing options, as well as technical details and tips for printing from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign – and how to make the various programs “play nicely” together when printing.
Did I mention it’s FREE?
Here’s an excellent list of free resources for Photoshop and Illustrator, with links for brushes, patterns, Kuler panels, photos… just LOTS of free stuff… I love FREE!
http://www.creativepro.com/article/free-all-american-southwest
This cool After Effects plugin seems to work a lot like the Color Guide in Adobe Illustrator, but on footage! Looks like it can work a charm for those of you who need to come up with great color combinations for Motion Graphics projects, without struggling with color theory. The first 500 orders get a very respectable discount:
For those of you who need to work with PDF’s on your Mac, but don’t want to plunk down a fortune to Adobe for the full control of Acrobat, this is a very viable alternative, and on sale today and tomorrow at 40% off. Check it out.
A link to a site with some useful shortcuts you may not always remember:
http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/tools/awesome-keyboard-shortcuts-photoshop/
Excellent tip for Dreamweaver users working with CSS3. Well written and easy to follow. Check it out…
http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2011/05/using-online-css3-tools-in-dw/
Corel’s release of Painter 12 looks particularly awesome! If you do “natural media” style painting, this software’s for you. And no mess to clean up!
http://www.creativepro.com/article/corels-painter-12-stunning-update
Living on a Heart Grunge
Often during my Adobe Illustrator classes, we look at some of Adobe’s sample images and discuss and deconstruct how they were made. Today, Dhanank Pambayun has released a PDF of how he made his Living on a Heart Grunge image. Check out the How-To PDF here:
Seeking ideas for any new video or PDF tutorials that may be of interest to the people reading our posts. Is there anything you guys want to learn? It can be on any of the subjects listed on our website’s homepage (www.aym4training.com), and I’m certainly open to any other ideas you may have. Please keep in mind the time limit on YouTube is 15 minutes, so please try to choose something that can be explained in a short video – or two.
Any ideas, people???
Graphics.com has a very good article on using Digimarc protection for your images. Check it out here at:
http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=931