TIPS & TRICKS

Trips, tricks, techniques, and short tutorials on all the tools integral to the modern design workflow to help get you through a deadline a little faster, more creatively, and with more fun.

InDesign Tips

Scale Strokes… Or Not

When scaling an object up or down, its stroke may end up looking too spindly or too thick in relation to the object if Scale Strokes is turned off…

Illustrator Tips

Revise Paths with the Pencil Tool

Need to change the shape of a path? Click somewhere on the path with the Pencil tool, and begin drawing. The path will incorporate your revision.
This is also a gotcha…

Photoshop Tips

Multiple Undos In Photoshop

CMD+Z (CTRL+Z on Windows) has ever been the universal keyboard shortcut that undoes the last action…

InCopy Tips

Collaborating without Assignments, Part 3 of 3

If assignments have kept you from incorporating InCopy into your publishing workflow, don’t let them intimidate you. You don’t have to use assignments to benefit from using InCopy…

InCopy Tips

Collaborating without Assignments, Part 2 of 3

If assignments have kept you from incorporating InCopy into your publishing workflow, don’t let them intimidate you. You don’t have to use assignments to benefit from using InCopy…

InCopy Tips

Collaborating without Assignments, Part 1 of 3

If assignments have kept you from incorporating InCopy into your publishing workflow, don’t let them intimidate you. You don’t have to use assignments to benefit from using InCopy…

QuarkXPress Tips

Resize Box and Contents Proportionately

You can resize both a box and its content proportionally by holding down CTRL-SHIFT-OPT and either using the greater-than and less-than keys (to size the box down and up)…

InDesign Tips

Convert Bullets and Numbers to Stylable Text

If you’ve got bulleted and numbered lists but want more control over the appearance of the bullets or numbers, convert them to normal text…

QuarkXPress Tips

Why Won’t This Clipping Path Work?

Here’s the scenario: You place into a picture box a non-rectangular EPS or a raster image with a clipping path…

Photoshop Tips

Quick Mask Channel Selection

When selecting large areas with the magic wand it’s common to leave a few pixels here and there throughout the areas unselected…


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