There’s more ways to add page guides in Adobe InDesign than you can shake a stick at. Here’s a video that shows a few different methods of adding these indespensable designers tools.
Here’s the vid…
Indispensable InDesign – The Guides Guide
February 4th, 2010Using Layer Comps to Create Rollovers in Adobe Photoshop CS4
December 13th, 2009When Adobe bought Fireworks from Macromedia they quietly dropped ImageReady, a cousin application of Photoshop which was specially tooled up to help create web graphics.
Among the really great features included in ImageReady was a Rollovers panel, which really speeded up the process of creating rollover buttons for web pages and was quite missed. However you can get quite a long way using Layer Comps and Styles along with the Slice Tool… Check out da Vid!
Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes to Make Part 2 – The Design View
November 24th, 2009As previously noted, there a a few things about Dreamweaver just waiting to ruin your plans for your site. This next one gets everyone, all the time… Read the rest of this entry »
Content-Aware Scaling in Adobe Photoshop CS4
November 6th, 2009Content-Aware Scale… is a reality warping feature buried quite discretely in Photoshop CS4. It allows you to let Photoshop intelligently transform images as you resize them… Read the rest of this entry »
Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes to Make Part 1 – Failing to Define a Site
October 31st, 2009The Dreamweaver engineers have a tough row to hoe – caught between the needs of novice users and hardcore code veterans the program often fails to gently guide users through the process of putting a web site together.
Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes To Make… Part 1… is a Graphics Training Source mini-series that draws on Andrew’s Vast Reservoir o’ Training Experience to help you – yes you, avoid the Most Calamitous Dreamweaver Mistakes…
Safari’s Web Developer Menu
October 25th, 2009Hidden away in Apple’s Safari browser is a preference setting that challenges Firefox’s excellent Web Developer Toolkit, and while not as fully featured as the Firefox plug-in, will help designers to test and preview their CSS and HTML edits directly in Safari. Read the rest of this entry »
IE 6 Cheatsheet Combats A Ton 0′ Bugs
October 20th, 2009Internet Explorer 6 is always sitting there, just waiting to undo your best laid plans…
A Selfless Superstar called Benjamin has posted this brain frazzling list of IE6 related bugs ‘n’ fixes. Check it out at Virtuosi Media. You’ll read it and weep.
Web Colour pt 1 – The ‘Web Safe’ Colours
October 19th, 2009What are these self-styled ‘Web Safe’ colours. Do you need them? Should you care?
10 million years ago when the DTPosaurs worked on huge, slow computers with tiny, tiny little screens, there wasn’t a lot of anything to go round, not enough RAM, not disk space, not enough colours.
That’s why when the web came along it was important for designers to recognise that not everyone’s monitor could display the same colours. At that time the fanciest graphics cards where maybe putting out 16bit colours (that’s 65536 different colours) but your average punter would of probably owned a 8bit card (that’s only 256 colours folks!)
To make things more confusing both the Mac’s system palette and Window’s system palette were different from each other… Read the rest of this entry »
Hello World!
October 19th, 2009Welcome to the Graphics Training Source, a propaganda/marketing wing of Andrew Moreton, Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor whose wisdom and ego are shortly about to fill these pages with tips, links, and tutorials relating to electronic publishing and graphic design in general and CSS, HTML, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver in particular.
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