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Author Archives: Mike McHugh
Setting Tabs InDesign (No. 90)
Its so annoying when you see an InDesign document that has been put together with tabs and spaces all over the place. Common everyone lets get the tabs right and then put them into paragraph styles as well. Its not … Continue reading
Posted in CSTV Episode, InDesign
Tagged Adobe, CS4, CS5, Indents, InDesign, Tabs, text, Tips, Typography
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InDesign Interactive Galleries (No. 89)
InDesign CS5 has a whole bunch of new interactive features. We take a close look at how to use the multi-state objects to create a simple image gallery. We use Adobe Bridge to drage and drop or place images, we … Continue reading
Posted in CSTV Episode, Design, Illustrator, InDesign
Tagged Adobe, buttons, CS5, Illustrator, InDesign, Interactive, states, SWF
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5 Hidden Photoshop Treasures.
1. Be gone! To show a hidden gnome, hold down the control + alt keys. Go to the layers panel and select the Layers Panel fly out menu. Select Panel Options the gnome appears! 2. Layer Style defaults. If you … Continue reading
“Guess What’s In The Photo” Competition
Adobe Australia and Creative Sweet TV invites its Twitter follower base to enter the “Guess what’s in the Photo” promotion (Promotion). Entrants who correctly guess the subject of the photo, which will be covered and incrementally revealed during the competition, … Continue reading
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Efficient, Flexible Illustrator Artwork (No. 88)
Adobe Illustrator has some fantastic vector drawing tools, great for creating repeated patterns for use on fabrics clothing and any design work. However if you you make the repeat too large the files can become quite cumbersome and the file … Continue reading
Posted in CSTV Episode, Illustrator
Tagged Adobe, Appearances, CS3, CS4, CS5, Effects, Illustrator, Patterns, Symbols, Transform
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Premiere Pro CS5 Green Screen Ultra Key (No. 87)
Get a glimpse behind the scenes of Creative Sweet TV. Using Premier Pro to do a really quick and really effective green screen key. Using native AVCHD footage and very basic fold out screen. Also use a garbage matt to … Continue reading
Posted in CSTV Episode, Video
Tagged Adobe, Backgrounds, CS5, Green Screen, Mask, Premier Pro, Tips, Ultra, Video
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Top Ten InDesign CS5 Typography Shortcuts. (No. 86)
PLEASE DONT BE OFFENDED. This week Mike is in a particularly aggressive mood. But its because wants everyone to be awesome using InDesign Shortcuts. This week Creative sweet TV showcases with love the top ten essential shortcuts required to set … Continue reading
Posted in CSTV Episode, InDesign
Tagged Adobe, Baseline shift, CS3, CS4, CS5, InDesign, Kerning, Leading, Shortcuts, text, Tips, Tracking, Typography
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Digital Publishing ePub best practices
This is the recording of Todays E-Seminar. We cover all sorts of best practices for creating epub files from InDesign. http://pacific.adobe.acrobat.com/p29627344/ I Mentioned in the e-seminar about using Adobe Buzzword to create .epub files here is where you find it. … Continue reading
Photoshop Quick Retouching Tips. (No. 85)
This is a whole host of techniques used for portrait retouching. Get smooth flawless skin, remove wrinkles and brighten eyes. Whilst the tutorial is very fast moving many of the techniques can be used inn more detail to get some … Continue reading
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Tagged CS5, Layers, Mask, Photoshop, Retouching, Skin, Smoothing
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InDesign Fixing Widows and Orphans (No. 84)
Dont you just hate it when you get a word or line of text left all by itself? Learn how to fix Widows and Orphans within InDesign Paragraph composer. Don’t switch it off man, it works really well if you … Continue reading
