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 that hard when you see how to use the tab ruler. We do Right indent tabs, leaders and indent to here as well. What an awesome episode. Creative Sweet TV really is the home of well thought out tabs, and documents that allow for easy editing don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv. Have a great Christmas break and thanks everyone for watching creative Sweet TV see you in 2011.
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 also use the new corner effects. But more importantly than that we use the ugliest arrow heads ever and copy and paste them from Illustrator cs5 to create buttons that trigger out gallery!
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 want to set any default settings for layers styles, for example the drop shadow change you setting and press the Make Default button at the bottom. ITS NEW!
3. Resize Brush Dynamically.
To resize your brush Dynamically in Photoshop firstly select your brush. hold down the control + alt keys. Click and drag to the right to make the brush larger and click and drag to the left to make it smaller.
4. Clipping Groups.
To use a layer as a transparency mask, you can form a clipping group. Hold down your alt key when you hover over the line in between two layers and click. The top layer will then move to the right and use the transparency from the layer underneath it in the layers stack.
5. Record Document History.
If you find it hard to remember what you have done in a Photoshop you can record the history of the file. Go to the preferences inside Photoshop at the base of the first screen. You can record just the sessions only this is great for recording time spent on a project. A concise report will record all you actions this is a great way remembering techniques used.
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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 sizes are massive. Learn how to create the most efficient, flexible Illustrator artwork . Use pattern swatches, symbols and a transform effect that will blow you tiny little minds! Don’t forget you can follow Mike on twitter @cs_tv
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 trim the edges and its all good to go. The entire episode created with Premier Pro CS5.
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 type in InDesign. The shortcuts include, Soft returns, point size, leading, baseline shift, Indent to here, right indent tabs and the list goes on…
Sit back relax and learn with this mildly offensive episode of Creative Sweet TV.
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 fantastic results. Its all non destructive and uses many layers. Thats why Mike is the best Photoshop User ever! Even he he does say so himself.
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 know what to do. Use non breaking spaces and keep options to get it all sorted. Don’t forget you can follow Mike on Twitter @CS_TV
